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Was the Bank of England wrong not to cut interest rates?
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5 per cent. This was the expected outcome of the Monetary Policy…
Can Sadiq Khan save Oxford Street?
Oxford Street’s spiralling tawdriness is a miserable advert for London. The ‘candy’ stores and tourist tat ‘luggage’ emporiums, the gang…
End Tory leadership race early, says Tugendhat
While Labour’s dirty laundry over ‘frockgate‘ is being aired in public, it would be easy to forget there are still…
Labour minister: Freebies are ‘part of the job’
Dear oh dear. Things are only getting worse for Sir Keir, as it now transpires that the Prime Minister accepted…
Why aren’t some released prisoners being tagged?
As hundreds of prisoners are released early on to the streets of Britain, it’s vital that the authorities keep track…
There’s nothing wrong with being a ‘junior’ doctor
‘The wise bustle and laugh as they walk, but fools bustle and are important,’ wrote F.L. Lucas a century ago.…
The trouble with Trafalgar Square’s transgender tribute
Seven hundred and twenty-six plaster face casts of transsexual, non-binary or gender non-conforming people were unveiled yesterday in London’s Trafalgar…
Diane Abbott doesn’t understand fascism
Diane Abbott believes that Giorgia Meloni is a ‘literal fascist’. That must come as a surprise to the 12.3 million…
Why shouldn’t Sue Gray earn £170,000?
We are a day short of Sir Keir Starmer marking 11 weeks as prime minister. His first 76 days have…
What the Sue Gray row is really about
Another day, another story about Sue Gray. Today the BBC reports the details of Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff’s…
How the SNP damaged the independence cause
If you really want to annoy a Scottish nationalist, tell them the 2014 Scottish independence referendum had a lot in…
Sue Gray paid more than the Prime Minister
To Westminster, where more trouble is afoot. It now transpires the Prime Minister is paid less than, er, his own…
Pager bombs won’t stop Hezbollah
The killing of 12 people, including several Hezbollah members, and the wounding of thousands more when 5,000 pagers simultaneously exploded…
The mad, bad, sad world of Ryan Routh
Any journalist who has covered a war will recognise Ryan Routh’s type immediately – the war zone nutter. Routh is currently…
The poisoned chalice of trying to nationalise Thames Water
Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership election in 2020 on the back of a promise to nationalise public utilities. In…
Reform voters are ‘our people’, insists Badenoch
How to solve a problem like Reform? The Tories have been scratching their heads on the matter since their rather…
The future looks bleak for the SNP
Ten years ago today the Scottish independence referendum took place. The result was a resounding defeat for those who wanted…
Labour’s economic doom and gloom doesn’t match reality
Inflation was 2.2 per cent in the 12 months to August, unchanged from the month before, today’s update from the…
The Hezbollah pager bomb plot has Israel’s fingerprints all over it
At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: the Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an…
Why should we listen to John Major?
Sir John Major has been sounding off. Again. The former Tory prime minister criticised his party’s Rwanda asylum plan as…
What was Labour’s role in stopping Scottish independence?
Scottish independence became such a difficult issue for Labour that it is easy to forget the party was once the…
Stop calling us ‘junior’, demand doctors
Junior doctors made headlines this week after begrudgingly accepted the government’s pay deal. Two thirds of British Medical Association (BMA)…
Prince Andrew will struggle to recover from A Very Royal Scandal
Sensational dramas about the Duke of York are rather like London buses: you wait five years for one, and then…
Softballs for Kamala at the National Association of Black Journalists
Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Association of Black Journalists for an interview this afternoon. Instead of going…
Why the Palm Beach assassination attempt is unlikely to affect the 2024 race
Again? That was the immediate reaction I had when the Associated Press bulletin popped up on my phone as I…
