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Tories end their term on a high
Labour woes mean Tory smiles. The Conservatives have ended the parliamentary session on a (reasonable) high, after last week’s benefits…
Trayon White is DC’s Donald Trump
Cockburn is delighted to announce the special election winner replacing Trayon White (who was unanimously expelled from office in February)…
Starmer takes Labour whip off rebels
After a week of brooding, Keir Starmer has decided to strike. Like Michael Corleone, today he is settling all family…
Trump should bring the Fed to heel
President Trump’s criticism of Jay Powell has increasingly triggered calls for the Federal Reserve’s independence. But those defending Powell’s autonomy…
Bayrou will regret his plan to scrap French bank holidays
The Prime Minister of France announced his plan on Tuesday to balance the country’s books: his most eye-catching intention is…
Life is good in Starmerland. It’s a shame about Britain
It was clearly hot in the House of Commons today. The Lib Dem benches were a sea of pastel colours,…
Keir Starmer is taking Boris Johnson’s approach to PMQs
Keir Starmer joked at Prime Minister’s Questions today that Tory MPs seemed to be on recess already. But he wasn’t…
Foreign national benefits figures are ‘absolute insanity’, fumes Lowe
Well, well, well. It was only a fortnight ago that the government was forced to gut its own welfare reform…
What’s happening in southern Syria – and why Israel is involved
Over the last 24 hours, southern Syria has seen a sharp escalation in violence involving Syrian government forces, local Druze…
Physician associates must be better regulated
Recent years have seen an explosion of a new kind of medical role across the NHS: physician’s associates (PAs). Yet…
Reform will exploit the Afghan scandal to the full
The Afghan data leak is the kind of scandal which is perfect for Reform UK. It involves gross incompetence, profligacy…
Are we sure the Afghan data debacle won’t happen again?
‘Afghanistan’ was the heading of Defence Secretary John Healey’s statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday – a word…
Rael Braverman quits Reform after attacks on Suella
A day is a long time in politics. Just 24 hours ago, the husband of former Tory Home Secretary Suella…
MasterChef must die
As Oscar Wilde didn’t quite put it, for one MasterChef presenter to depart because of a scandal may be regarded…
Britain can’t afford to let migrants live on benefits
When the history of the next election comes to be written, we may end up asking: was the turning point…
Cutting bank holidays for French workers is a bad idea
Banning the baguette, perhaps? Or making it compulsory to eat a sandwich at your desk at lunchtime? If you think…
Sandie Peggie cleared of NHS misconduct
To Scotland, where the nurse at the centre of a trans tribunal against NHS Fife has been cleared of all…
Gun-toting Newsom’s alpha male rebrand
In a 2023 interview, California Governor Gavin Newsom was asked how he ended up in a leadership position. After struggling…
Rising inflation shows how the Bank of England is failing
The rate of inflation climbed to 3.6 per cent in June – up from 3.4 per cent in May. That’s…
The ‘morons’ who chopped down the Sycamore Gap tree don’t deserve prison
Our trees – oak and beech, soft and ancient, sycamores, whose seeds spin and tumble away every autumn – are…
The flaw in the CofE’s £150 million victims’ fund
To much fanfare, the Church of England this week instituted a plan, funded to the tune of some £150 million…
‘Climate denial’ shouldn’t be illegal
You can tell the environmentalists are on the back foot. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is issuing doomsday proclamations in parliament, branding…
No, Rachel Reeves: Britain doesn’t look ‘open for business’
Rachel Reeves wants Britain to become a shareholder democracy. In her annual Mansion House speech to the City’s bankers, accountants…
Prizes, bets and venture capital: how Democrats plan to win
“The old ways of doing business just aren’t cutting it” for the Democratic Party, the New York Times wrote. Democrats…
Rachel Reeves’s mortgage reforms reek of desperation
Just how desperate is Rachel Reeves to achieve her elusive economic growth? Desperate enough, it seems, to risk a rush…
