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Who are working people? All Labour’s definitions
The Labour party has long been dubbed the party of working people – but despite the term being integral to…
Wallace’s BBC return ‘untenable’ after complaints upheld
Another week, another bit of bad news for ex-Beeb star Gregg Wallace. A report into the former MasterChef presenter has…
Who exactly is a working person?
Tomorrow is Rachel Reeves’s big speech in the City. The annual Mansion House address is a chance for the chancellor…
Musk’s chatbot stumbles again
No living human has had a week as tumultuous as Grok, the Elon Musk-sponsored AI that lives inside X for…
Zohran Mamdani’s radical parents
Voters often pay a premium for socialism. It’s the modern-day equivalent of free-range eggs or an electric car. Zohran Mamdani,…
Banning disposable vapes was a waste of time
When we’re debating the introduction of a new law – ban this, ban that, crack down on the other –…
How political ideology corrupted science
Science is no longer regarded or respected as an objective pursuit, one in which the principle of impartiality is sought…
The UK should not have to ration water
The UK’s steady decline continued today with reports that water companies are looking to introduce ‘surge pricing’ in order to…
Sunday shows round-up: Labour defends its ‘one in, one out’ migrant scheme
The government is piloting a ‘one in, one out’ migrant scheme with France. As part of the deal, the UK…
In defence of Christian Horner
Christian Horner has very beady eyes. If you sit opposite him, his shark-like spotlights will dart around you, probably in the hope…
Reform is right to reject Liz Truss
Reform UK topping the opinion polls and winning local council elections has prompted several leading Tories to defect. But now…
How Live Aid ruined pop music
Today is the fortieth anniversary of Live Aid, the epic televised pop concert – or ‘global jukebox’ – designed to raise…
The mask slips at Socialism 2025
From college campuses to the media, socialism is increasingly getting repackaged as a solution to every problem: homelessness, housing, policing…
The Ten Commandments of Texas
Blessed greetings From Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a bill that will require public schools to display the…
Why I’ve changed my mind about climate change
Here we go again. Another blistering heatwave. Just a few days after the last one. Like many, and probably like a…
Thatcher hit job piece backfires
It is a century this year since the Iron Lady’s birth – and conservatives are determined to mark it in…
Norman Tebbit, forgiveness and my father, the IRA bomber
Norman Tebbit, who died this week at the age of 94, embodied a sterner Britain. His political career was remarkable…
Twenty years of failing to solve the migrant crisis
The front desk call out a name, ‘Mohammed Ahmed!’ Four men – or boys as they claimed to be –…
English schools are failing disadvantaged children
Education should be the great equaliser – the ladder with which all children, regardless of circumstances of birth, can improve…
Why the Lords doesn’t have to accept the Assisted Dying Bill
In an effort to hasten the Assisted Dying/Suicide Bill on to the statute books, Esther Rantzen and Lord Falconer have…
ITV’s Transaction is painfully unfunny
The plot of Transaction, a six-part comedy currently showing on ITV2, is simple. A supermarket accused of transphobia hires a…
Wimbledon’s Royal Box has become naff
As Wimbledon reaches its climax this weekend, those of us neither interested in tennis, nor in taking a fortnight off…
France doesn’t need Boomers dreaming of political comebacks
If France didn’t have enough to worry about right now with its soaring rates of debt, crime and immigration, now…
How to save Conservatism
It is impossible to deny the sense of gloom and pessimism in Britain today. The economy is stagnant, and our…
Why Britain should celebrate the Battle of the Boyne
British schoolchildren spend more time learning about the American civil rights movement than the English Civil War. An entire generation…
