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Graham Linehan’s arrest is a turning point
The hoo-ha over free speech being trampled on has always seemed exaggerated. I earn my living through voicing my opinions,…
Eco-populist Polanski wins Green leadership race
The Green party leadership contest has finished and the results are in: Zack Polanski is the new leader of the…
Kim Jong-un’s alliance with Xi and Putin is growing stronger
When analysing authoritarian states, not least North Korea, most of the time we have to read between the lines. But…
The markets don’t trust Keir Starmer
The pound is starting to slide. Gold is punching through record highs, and long-term gilt yields are hitting levels that…
The dangerous rise of ‘Chinese Bezique’
In one of Joseph Conrad’s early stories he mentions an old seaman who delighted in a card game he called…
Why is Putin so happy in China?
The often dour Vladimir Putin is looking very cheery in China, which has just hosted the summit of the Shanghai…
Why are UK debt costs still so high – and does it matter?
The yields on UK government bonds, commonly known as ‘gilts’, are now consistently the highest among the G7 group of…
Is Xi Jinping still in charge of China?
China will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of the ‘war of resistance against Japanese aggression’ (i.e. what we…
Why must the English respect every flag other than their own?
It’s strange to think that the British people were once addressed as adults by those who governed them. In theory,…
How the Taliban will deal with Afghanistan’s earthquake
More than 800 people have been killed, and thousands more injured, as of Monday evening after a magnitude-6 earthquake struck…
Badenoch’s Tories have seen sense on North Sea Oil. Will Starmer?
Kemi Badenoch’s rediscovery of the North Sea oil and gas industry would be more convincing had it not been successive…
Keir Starmer must not ban Eric Zemmour from Britain
Eric Zemmour will be in London on 13 September at the invitation of Tommy Robinson. In a message posted on…
True winners steal from children
“Sack of garbage,” “common thief,” “shameful jerk” – but a few of the choice words tennis fans had for the…
Ukraine’s own Wagner Group
As peace in Ukraine seems still far and the conflict is witnessing a new escalation of violence, a new breed…
Wishing Trump dead only makes him stronger
Maybe you heard that Donald Trump died over the weekend. First, the Internet began to buzz over some bruising on…
Yvette Cooper pledges to overhaul Britain’s asylum system
Addressing the Commons today, Yvette Cooper promised the government will overhaul the asylum system. This will include changing the way…
What’s the point of Starmer’s reshuffle?
Will Keir Starmer’s mini-reshuffle of ministers and key aides solve the Prime Minister’s problems? The Prime Minister has moved Darren…
Starmer must embrace the Thatcher paradox
Most of the people I deal with outside government agree that Darren Jones, whom Keir Starmer has just appointed as…
Keir Starmer is Downing Street’s David Brent
How many resets does it take to make a doom loop? In another attempt to work out what the problem…
Corbyn and Sultana’s party split over trans stance
As if it hadn’t experienced enough splits over the last few weeks, it transpires that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s…
Are the Scottish Tories too obsessed with the Union?
The end of summer recess (in both Westminster and Holyrood) seems like a reasonable moment to leave tribal party politics…
Does tagging prison leavers really stop them reoffending?
Finally, some good news for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) – tagging works! Last week, the prisons minister was unleashed…
Why is Lambeth council charging landlords £923 to fill out a form?
Perhaps it’s the left’s puerile belief that all property is theft that has led to Rachel Reeves’s swingeing attack on…
Is it possible to learn anything new about the royal family?
Another week, another round of royal revelations. Following swiftly on from the publication of Andrew Lownie’s bestselling denigration of the…
Can Starmer’s No.10 reset save him?
Parliament’s summer recess has just ended and, on his first day back, Sir Keir Starmer has already announced a reset…
