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Merz’s new coalition is bad news for Germany
Today, the CDU’s Friedrich Merz has signed a coalition agreement with the Social Democrats. In doing so he has formalised…
The Republican party is dead
On Tuesday, the United States Senate Committee on Finance met to question Jamieson Greer, Donald Trump’s Trade Representative. The subject…
Why does Keir Starmer want to give 16-year-olds the vote?
The Labour party’s long flirtation with extending the franchise to 16-year-olds smoulders on. As Starmer told this week’s Liaison Committee:…
Could China collapse the US economy?
Anyone who thought that government bonds would provide a safe haven from the turmoil on global stock markets has just…
Lib Dems double down on Gail’s strategy
To Sir Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats. The fun-loving party made headlines during the general election campaign after its party leader…
Could resident doctors go on strike again?
As if Prime Minister Keir Starmer didn’t have enough to worry about overseas with Donald Trump’s tariffs, now old tensions…
Labour has failed the victims of ‘grooming gangs’ again
In January, the Home Secretary pledged £5 million for five locally led inquiries into ‘grooming gangs’, in the wake of…
Xi escalates China’s trade war with Trump
China has announced it will impose 84 per cent tariffs on US goods imports from tomorrow, as the war of…
Who will crack down on Britain’s corrupt prison governors?
It’s a story so wild as to be almost unbelievable. Kerri Pegg was a ‘rising star’ of the prison service,…
Are the wheels finally coming off net zero?
Hands up: who still supports net zero 2050? This is rapidly becoming a sensible question to ask. Kemi Badenoch for the…
Will a new era of tariffs really stop China’s rise?
If free trade and globalization enabled Communist China to become a superpower, will a new era of tariffs and trade…
Labour’s grooming gangs position is contemptible
We do not know exactly how many girls have been raped by so-called ‘grooming gangs’. We do not know the…
Watch: Nandy changes her tune on Trump trade deal
Hypocrisy is in the air this morning! As the tariff war between China and the US rages on, Sir Keir…
Trump is going to give us a thousand years of woke
I try to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to.…
Ireland is looking terrifyingly vulnerable to Trump’s trade war
The Irish government has spent a lot of time trying to reassure voters that they have little to fear from…
What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal?
Thank God for Katie Lam. Yesterday the government tried to conduct a grubby betrayal of thousands of young girls groomed…
Meghan Markle’s new podcast is just toe-curling and unsubtle dross
At the beginning of the debut episode of Meghan Markle’s new podcast, she is keen to assert her own identity.…
Tinkering with the electric car mandate won’t help manufacturers
Presumably, some future government will have to reverse the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles in…
What caused Birmingham’s bin strikes?
Yes, as Wes Streeting says, it is ‘unacceptable’ for rubbish to be left piling up on the streets of Birmingham…
My DC bunker
Washington, DC My office this week has been the Starbucks on Capitol Hill. Any random subscriber to my Substack can…
Can the Democrats rediscover themselves in the age of Trump?
Even on the placid streets of London’s Mayfair, James Carville cannot find peace. “Every five minutes I get stopped and…
The Democrats have a voter problem
Data scientist David Shor has a message for Democrats: “Your problem with young men is worse than you think.” Shor…
The Democratic war machine
To understand what’s wrong with the American left and the Democratic party – two different but entwined things, to be…
Will Trump take a punt on Puntland?
As a man who views the world as one big real-estate portfolio, Donald Trump sees the potential in northern Somalia’s…
How DEI destroyed itself
Those who wonder why more Americans haven’t risen up in rebellion against the Trump administration’s assault on affirmative action, its…
