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Boris never had a chance of convincing Prince Harry to stay
Strange though it might seem now, at the beginning of 2020 Boris Johnson came close to achieving his childhood ambition…
Labour climate envoy sports Extinction Rebellion badge
When it rains for Sir Keir Starmer, it pours. Labour isn’t yet in the clear over the freebie fiasco that…
Will ‘flatgate’ damage Keir Starmer?
Labour conference has been and gone and still Lord Alli remains in the headlines. The latest claims regarding the multimillionaire…
Russell Findlay becomes Scottish Tory leader
The first of two Conservative leadership contests has concluded and today it has been announced that the new leader of…
Japan’s next prime minister is a bit of a maverick
The 67-year-old Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister on 1 October after winning a surprisingly exciting play-off vote…
Why didn’t the BBC air this 7 October documentary earlier?
We all know what happened on 7th October 2023. But those of us who have watched the Israeli government’s compilation…
Slating Nato won’t help Donald Trump
Reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this week, Donald Trump reiterated his long-standing ambition to bring Russia’s…
Viktor Orban’s adviser has made a big mistake
This week Balazs Orban, the bespectacled political director to the Hungarian Prime Minister (and of no relation to him), has…
Starmer needs to make peace with Elon Musk
It is tantrums at dawn between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer’s Labour government. The Tesla billionaire and owner of Twitter…
Boris gave Prince ‘manly pep talk’ to keep him in UK
Well, well, well. When the monarchs of Montecito decided to cut ties with the UK and live stateside, Prince Harry…
Trump on Starmer: ‘I actually think he’s very nice’
After months of diary-juggling, Keir Starmer finally got his meeting with the man who could be the next US President.…
What is Biden’s Middle East legacy?
No one can accuse President Joe Biden of failing to do his utmost to prevent a full-scale war from breaking…
How to evacuate a country
As fighting continues between Israel and Hezbollah, planning for a potential evacuation of British nationals from Lebanon has seen troops,…
Why women’s prisons don’t work
This week, the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said that her ‘ultimate ambition’ was to close women’s prisons, saying they were…
French women are afraid. But the country’s politicians don’t seem to care
In a country that has become accustomed to atrocities in the last decade, the brutal murder of a 19-year-old student…
You reap what you sow, Sir Keir
The public response to Sir Keir Starmer and his ministers accepting gifts from Labour donors and others has been what…
How worried should we be about Putin’s nuclear threat?
Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow’s nuclear doctrine will be adjusted, telling a group of senior officials that Russia could use nuclear weapons if…
What if the Electoral College vote is tied?
America has a peculiar — indeed, unique — way of deciding national elections. Instead of a cumulative national vote, the…
Abbott slams Starmer’s cabinet, one by one
,All is not well in the Labour party at present. If Sir Keir Starmer didn’t have enough on his plate,…
Israel wants a war with Lebanon
The war that neither side wanted began this week in earnest. After last week’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies reportedly injured…
Britain could learn from Texan prisons
Before I was sentenced to prison I imagined it as a place of discipline, where we who had broken society’s…
Is Labour’s non-dom crackdown backfiring already?
It takes something when even the Guardian is warning you that your tax rises might end up costing more than they raise…
Texas-style reforms won’t save our prisons
Texas. Big country, big ideas. The new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has become enamoured with an intriguing…
Ireland’s embarrassing hate speech fiasco
To the surprise of nobody and the disappointment of only a few, the Irish government has finally accepted reality and…
Labour MP’s million-pound loan from Lord Alli
Another day, another drama. Now it transpires that a Labour MP took a million-pound loan from Lord Alli – to…
