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Sharks are terrorising Australia
This is a summer that Australians want to forget. Australia was shocked and outraged by last month’s Bondi massacre of…
The police won’t be allowed to use AI to solve crimes
After spending a year trying to empty our overcrowded prisons, the Labour government has now decided its best bet is…
Farage’s defection deadline could make a Tory-Reform pact more likely
Did you read the big news about Reform? No, not its scooping-up of Tory MPs Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell;…
Starmer’s supine ministers can’t defend approving China’s embassy
This government has many faults, but one really cannot fault them on their comic timing. On the very day when…
Nicki Minaj’s ungodly clash with Don Lemon
“Independent” (fired) journalist Don Lemon is making himself the news after he did some activist reporting as part of a…
Who cares if Robert Jenrick can’t pronounce Kemi Badenoch’s name?
Kemi Badenoch, I can feel your pain. Nope, not the feeling of being knifed by a former colleague –but having…
Even Europe knows Britain isn’t spending enough on defence
The United Kingdom’s allies in Europe are concerned that the British government is not allocating enough resources to defence and…
Elon Musk would be a great new owner for Ryanair
A Tesla would whisk you to the airport. The planes would be self-flying. And robots would serve the over-priced sandwiches,…
This is Nato’s Suez moment
In 1969, Charles de Gaulle told his friend André Malraux that America’s “desire – and one day it will satisfy…
Could the Chinese embassy be an opportunity for Britain?
Keir Starmer has formally approved the largest Chinese embassy ever built in Europe. The chosen site, Royal Mint Court, opposite…
Welsh Tory expelled for Reform talks
Another one bites the dust. After Kemi Badenoch expelled Robert Jenrick from the Conservative party in Westminster, it seems that…
Nigel Farage: Trump can still ‘sink’ the Chagos deal
‘Better late than never.’ That’s how Reform party leader Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s sudden and dramatic repudiation of…
Trump is right: Starmer’s Chagos deal is an act of ‘great stupidity’
The excruciating thing about Donald Trump is that the madder and more unreasonable he seems to become, the more he…
Venezuela’s chavista elite is clinging on – but only just
Hugo Chávez’s eyes are everywhere across parts of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. In stark black and white, his gaze is stamped…
Could Brooklyn bring down the house of Beckham?
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is it to have a thankless child!’ Such was the lament of Shakespeare’s King…
Rachel Reeves: destroyer of jobs
Rachel Reeve’s jobs collapse is trundling on. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 155,000…
Leaving the ECHR won’t turn us into Russia or Belarus
In the debate about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) enthusiasts for European human rights law often…
How Macron’s ‘macho’ act fell apart
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was urging his fellow Europeans to use a ‘bazooka’ against Donald Trump in response to his…
Trump slams Starmer’s Chagos deal
Oh dear. Less than 24 hours after Keir Starmer did his big Hugh Grant act over Greenland, Donald Trump has…
What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?
It is easy to forget that, under a quirk of the UK legal system, if you want to get the…
Keir Starmer will regret approving China’s new mega-embassy
Keir Starmer is poised to give the go-ahead for China’s new mega-embassy near the Tower of London – the biggest…
There’s trouble at the top in the Taliban
Taliban rule of Afghanistan becomes madder by the day. The only thing they reliably do is find new ways of…
We’re trapped in 2016
With all the talk of Brexit, do you ever get the sense that social media is stuck in 2016? Well,…
Tories purge the Jenrickites
It seems that Kemi Badenoch isn’t done with Robert Jenrick just yet. Tonight she is set to meet Tory MPs…
Starmer’s war on pubs shows he was never serious about growth
To a landlord in a draughty Victorian boozer staring at his latest business rates bill, it will read more like…
