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Reeves hints she will break income tax pledge
There are just sixteen days to go until the Budget – and the pitch is being well and truly rolled.…
Night-time air patrols won’t stop small boat crossings
The government has deployed two aircraft to the Channel to detect and monitor small boats crossing under the cover of…
Will London tempt the New Yorkers fleeing Mamdani?
As New York’s wealthy elite weigh up the options under their new ‘democratic socialist’ Mayor Zohran Mamdani, many of them…
There has been no ‘coup’ at the BBC
Readers who woke to Radio 4’s Today programme at around 6:30 a.m. can be forgiven for leaping out of bed in alarm.…
The rot at the BBC runs far deeper than Tim Davie
The resignations at the top of the BBC mark a critical juncture for an institution long seen as a pillar…
Why the BBC keeps getting it wrong
The double-decapitating explosion over BBC bias is a gift for commentators, but much of the commentary misses a key central…
Exclusive: Reform launches its student wing
You know you’re not a proper political party, until you’ve had the obligatory youth wing scandal. Pubescent politicos have long…
The jihadist I knew: my life as a prisoner of Syria’s president
As Washington rolls out the red carpet today for the former al-Qaeda chieftain and now Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s…
I’m a fan of the BBC – but even I’m struggling to defend it
Another Director-General bites the dust. And the number two with him. What a facepalm. What a honking, stupid, first-day-in-the office sort of error to…
Is this the man who can save the BBC?
I’m not going to rehash here the details of the memorandum by Michael Prescott, the former independent editorial standards adviser…
Learning French taught me to love English
One of the greatest dangers posed by the government’s curriculum review is that it will result in children abandoning more…
Tim Davie quits BBC over Trump edit
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC is once again setting the news agenda – via tales of its own…
Is Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend plan loopy?
It’s becoming increasingly taxing for Donald Trump to defend his tariff policy. His latest gambit is to float the prospect…
Polanski: I want Putin to renounce nukes
Happy Remembrance Sunday one and all. With the Green party soaring in the polls, who better to have on the…
We should not need a court’s permission to criticise Islam
Those who believe in free speech, and those who are particularly concerned by plans to have ‘Islamophobia’ codified, ought to…
Sunday shows round-up: Culture Secretary concerned about BBC bias
The BBC is set to apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech it featured in the Panorama…
Why Prevent doesn’t work
Our state counterterrorism strategy ‘Prevent’ is overwhelmed. This is the strand of our national plan, ‘Contest’, to defeat extremism. Prevent…
On less famous presidential assassins
Everyone can name JFK and his (probable) assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, or Abraham Lincoln and everyone’s least favorite actor, John…
What’s the point in a Generational Smoking Ban?
With the Tobacco and Vapes Bill travelling through the House of Lords, I think it’s high time we looked at…
Remembrance Sunday is about more than just the two world wars
At 11 a.m. today, much of the nation will fall silent in remembrance of those who have made the ultimate…
David Bowie was no starman
No one has a bad word to say about David Bowie, but it’s about time they did. The pop star’s…
What the Romans did for the English language
‘Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what…
What will Trump do in Venezuela?
Venezuela has been on tenterhooks for weeks, waiting as the United States gathers an armada of warships. Next week, the…
The leaked BBC memo is no surprise
As a BBC News journalist who has been driven to distraction by the corporation’s repeated displays of apparent bias, I didn’t think…
What will Jacinda Ardern do next?
When I first met Jacinda Ardern in the early 2010s, the notion that the young MP with the toothy smile…
