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How to fight back against Lily Phillips

18 May 2025 3:59 pm

Why is the pornification of our culture so difficult to oppose? Partly because it takes subtly different forms. There used…

The US and China are in more than a trade war

18 May 2025 3:30 pm

Headlines on the current discord between the United States and China speak only of ‘trade war’. Negotiations in Geneva have…

Scotland has no idea what to do about Reform

18 May 2025 6:06 am

Reform continues to rise in Scotland and the Scottish political and media class continue either to ignore it or hold…

James Comey just needs your attention

18 May 2025 1:58 am

Let’s sit down and have a talk about James Comey, America’s tallest teenage girl. Typically the conversation around the nation’s…

When will Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ pass the House?

18 May 2025 1:47 am

President Donald Trump is seeing a handful of House Republicans deal what he hopes is a temporary setback to his…

Starmer’s immigration ‘crackdown’ is a triumph for the quangos

18 May 2025 12:03 am

Keir Starmer appeared to be making all the right noises when he unveiled his immigration crackdown this week. The white paper, released…

Will Labour’s uniform cap hit pupil performance?

17 May 2025 10:27 pm

It is the perennial question of British politics: who is next in the ministerial sack race? For a while, it…

Reform UK plots new wave of student societies

17 May 2025 8:47 pm

They say that the children are our future. So what better way for a party to demonstrate its potential than…

Why I changed my mind about multiculturalism

17 May 2025 4:30 pm

When Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain complains about an opponent believing ‘free speech means protecting the right to offend Muslims’, you feel…

Will Gibraltar get in the way of Starmer’s EU reset?

17 May 2025 4:30 pm

For years, the UK, Spain, Gibraltar and the European Union have been negotiating, on and off, to resolve the complex issue…

Sainsbury’s self-checkout surveillance has gone too far

17 May 2025 3:53 pm

Sainsbury’s is stepping up surveillance on its self-checkout tills. It’s hard not to laugh out loud. Not only will shoppers in…

David Lammy and the trouble with foreign taxis

17 May 2025 10:00 am

After decades on the road, I’ve collected a few rules that have served me well. Rule one: always go inside…

Gary Lineker is a joke

17 May 2025 10:00 am

After a lifetime of being irritated by too many public figures to name, a few years back I discovered a…

Why the Istanbul talks failed

17 May 2025 4:00 am

Only one conclusion can be drawn from today’s talks in Istanbul: Russia has once again rejected the proposed unconditional 30-day…

Donald Trump’s papal style

17 May 2025 2:27 am

The election of the first American pope, Leo XIV, comes at a strange time when a Catholic establishment is running…

Gender ideology is still dictating NHS policy

17 May 2025 2:23 am

The NHS have decided that there is no minimum age before a child can begin treatment for gender dysphoria. Freedom…

Emily Maitlis doesn’t understand grooming gangs

17 May 2025 1:55 am

‘You are focusing on Pakistani grooming gangs, because, probably, you’re racist.’ That’s what Emily Maitlis told ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe…

Equalities watchdog faces legal action over trans rules

17 May 2025 1:54 am

Oh dear. Now legal action has been launched against the UK’s equalities watchdog – alleging that guidance around transgender people…

Parliament is changing its mind on assisted dying

17 May 2025 1:36 am

There was a markedly different feel to today’s debate on Assisted Dying. The last time the House debated Kim Leadbeater’s…

A 10mph speed limit is preposterous

17 May 2025 1:33 am

The increase of 20mph speed limits in Britain has been sending drivers around the bend. But if an organisation called the Road…

Is Keir Starmer ‘far right’ now?

17 May 2025 1:26 am

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s new ‘far right’ mission to lock up asylum seekers in distant countries yesterday suffered an…

The anti-Israel Eurovision mob are Hamas’s little helpers

17 May 2025 12:11 am

Imagine booing a survivor of a fascist attack. People actually did that this week. Pro-Palestine activists heckled and insulted a…

MPs should get a say on Starmer’s trade deals

17 May 2025 12:06 am

Sir Keir Starmer has been busy talking up his trade deals with the US and India, while also planning ‘reset’…

The red lines delaying an American nuclear deal with Iran

16 May 2025 10:55 pm

Speaking to reporters on his Middle East diplomatic tour, Donald Trump hinted at what could be his biggest foreign policy…

Rachel Reeves’s war on family businesses

16 May 2025 10:30 pm

The Environmental and Rural Affairs select committee is surely right that the government imposed the inheritance tax changes on farmland…