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Louise Haigh’s officials lose two phones a week
Just what is it with the Department for Transport and phones? Back in November, Louise Haigh was forced to quit…
Reform remix Farage’s greatest hits
In truth, there was little that was new in Nigel Farage’s speech today. For more than a decade, he has…
How Mario Vargas Llosa was inspired by Thatcher
Most writers – like the vast majority of actors, artists and other luminaries of our culture – belong to the…
Reform UK split on new youth wing
There was great excitement at the end of last year when it was reported that Reform UK was considering launching…
We have more to fear from net zero than from Xi Jinping
The threat by the Chinese company Jingye to close down Britain’s last two blast furnaces, in spite of the offer…
J.D. Vance’s disdain for Europe has never been clearer
Being vice president of the United States is a strange role. John Nance Garner, Franklin Roosevelt’s understudy for his first…
In defence of rats
Reports of rats in Birmingham that are ‘bigger than cats’ are now making international headlines. The New York Times, NBC…
Is Britain really going to get a trade deal with the US?
Donald Trump loves Britain and loves the King; therefore we can expect a trade deal. That is the gist of…
Could Labour hand British Steel to another Chinese owner?
The Labour government has a British Steel-sized problem that doesn’t look to be going away anytime soon. Sir Keir Starmer’s…
Hashem Abedi should never have been in this country
If there has been one constant in Hashem Abedi’s miserable life it has been the determined failure of the British…
Why have Canada’s conservatives backed euthanasia?
There’s two weeks left before Canada’s federal election, and we’re dying over here. Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney…
Is Donald Trump ready to weather a US recession?
A recession now looks even more certain for the United States than it does for the UK. Output has flattened.…
The Blue Origin lady spaceflight was desperate, sad and tasteless
I was determined to write something positive about Blue Origin’s “historic all-female spaceflight.” The spectacle was an all-American underdog story. Jeff…
Does Taiwan have a free speech problem?
These are jittery times in Zhongzheng, Taiwan’s Westminster. The island’s most important supporter, the United States, is now led by…
Trouble is brewing for the Tories in Wales
Next year, the people of Wales will elect their seventh national parliament. For the first time in a quarter of…
Mahmoud Khalil is not the victimized cuddlebear the media would have you believe
A federal immigration judge ruled on Friday that the government could deport Mahmoud Khalil, not a student, but a “Columbia…
Nigel Farage turns his guns on the red wall
Much of the commentary on the local elections has focused thus far on the Tories’ southern discontent. But today, Nigel…
The Bank of England’s mission to tame inflation just got harder
Much to the concern of the Bank of England, British workers are continuing to bank inflation-busting pay rises. Figures just released by…
Europe’s annual migrant crisis is just getting started
Irregular border crossings into the European Union dropped by 31 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 33,600.…
Is the NHS losing its appeal for Britain’s youth?
The NHS has survived many Conservative governments which, according to their opponents, were out to privatise it. But can it…
Iran is playing for time in the US nuclear talks
Over the weekend, the US and Iran held opening talks in Oman on Teheran’s nuclear programme. With the first round…
The sad death of ITV
The slow death of ITV makes for painful viewing. In its glory days of the 1980s and 1990s, the channel…
What the left calls ‘chaos,’ the rest of us call ‘winning’
They never learn, the libs. Back in 2016, they provided hours of entertainment assuring themselves that Donald Trump would “never be…
Why are violent prisoners continuing to offend in jail?
Even for our broken prison service it’s been a terrible few days. On Saturday the jihadi terrorist Hashem Abedi used…
Blue Origin’s all-female space flight was a step backwards for feminism
Ray Bradbury, the great science fiction author, had this to say about space exploration: ‘Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything…
