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Tories lose major donor prompting HQ closure fears
Just as the House of Commons is about to rise for Easter recess, Her Majesty’s Official Opposition has been hit…
Is the ‘Office for Value for Money’ just another quango?
Who can possibly be against any attempt by any government of any political colour to get better value of money?…
Hamas has a history of using ambulances for war
Before the facts had even settled, western media outlets rendered their verdict: Israel was guilty. Guilty of deliberately targeting ambulances.…
Trump is tearing up the Old World Order – as promised
Seems there is a bit of ruckus on the stock markets of the largest capitalist country in the world, the…
The crash is not as bad as it seems
It’s that moment of supreme uncertainty. We do however know the question. Is this a regular sell-off, with the S&P500…
Canada is more conservative than politicians think
Finally, some good news for Canada’s Conservative party. For the first time since the federal election was announced, a poll…
The punishment of Lucy Connolly
The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a…
Elon wants Trump to understand how a pencil gets made
“I-Pencil,” the fable-like essay by the economist Leonard E. Reed, remains one of the best introductions to the free market. It shows the ways…
Are Reeves’s fiscal rules really ‘ironclad’?
This afternoon, Keir Starmer recommitted to not raising income tax, VAT or employee National Insurance for the duration of this…
What the Southport Inquiry needs to do
The Southport killings were horrific, but should they have happened at all? We already know that the government’s counter-extremism programme,…
Trump hits back at China’s retaliatory tariffs
Stock markets around the world continue to plummet but Donald Trump has his mind on other matters: his tariff war…
Who did Bill Ackman think he was electing?
To take on America’s entire governing class and win, Donald Trump proved that he had an inhuman level of willfulness…
What Bibi and Trump get from each other
For all of their political similarities – imperiousness, indifference, more than occasional impunity – Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s canniest…
Trump is bending Japan to his will
‘National crisis’ was how Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba described the fallout from President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs in a…
Is Israel wrong to see Labour MPs as hostile actors?
Israel’s denial of entry to two Labour MPs is a truly shaming moment. Not for Israel, which, like all sovereign…
Rachel Reeves could be Trump’s first tariff crash victim
There will be plenty of victims of the crash currently playing out across the global financial markets. A few hedge…
Why did Israel block two British MPs at its border?
In 2008, under the UK’s Labour government, Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin – a Likud central committee member – was denied…
Has Musk broken ranks with Trump over tariffs?
Uh oh. There’s trouble in Trumpland. Leader of the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk has taken to his…
There are other kinds of workers who want ‘dignity’
Since Liberation Day, my feed has been full of panicked, apocalyptic screeching, even more than usual. It hasn’t been useful.…
Why shouldn’t Livia Tossici-Bolt try to prevent abortions?
How do you breach an abortion buffer zone protection order? Why, by being within 150 metres of any part of…
David Lammy’s Israel hypocrisy
I suppose we should name it the ‘Lammy Doctrine’, after the Titan of global diplomacy we are so privileged to…
Why are sports cars being exempted from net zero rules?
You can carry on burning petrol and diesel in your car so long as it is a pricey, niche sports…
Marine le Pen is far from finished
The right rarely take to the streets in France, but thousands gathered in Paris on Sunday to hear Marine Le…
Lammy and Badenoch in row over Israel’s MP ban
Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch are not known to be especially chummy at the best…
In defence of teenage boys
Horatio Nelson passed his examination for lieutenant on 9 April 1777 (possibly with a little help from his uncle, who was…
