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Reform’s trans prisoner policy is a mess

5 August 2025 11:55 pm

Reform are in the headlines again, this time over confusion about their policy on trans prisoners. Yesterday Vanessa Frake, former…

Ed Davey should stick to his silly stunts – not lecture us on Gaza

5 August 2025 11:53 pm

Ed Davey’s got this Middle East business figured out. The Liberal Democrat leader has tweeted — because, honestly, what else…

Farage clarifies Reform’s female prisons stance

5 August 2025 10:33 pm

To Reform UK, which is in its third week of its crime crackdown campaign which looks to tackle ‘Lawless Britain’.…

The Spectator and Douglas Murray win defamation claim brought by Mohammed Hijab

5 August 2025 9:37 pm

The Spectator and Douglas Murray have today won a defamation claim brought by Mohammed Hegab, who ‘lied on significant issues’ in…

The OBR has seen sense on migration. Will Rachel Reeves?

5 August 2025 8:45 pm

High levels of migration might not always be good for community relations if large numbers of new arrivals descend on…

How to reform judicial review responsibly

5 August 2025 7:20 pm

L.W., a transgender girl, her parents, and her doctor agreed that it would be good and medically appropriate for her…

How will the army’s new Gurkhas fight without any guns?

5 August 2025 4:47 pm

The British Army’s newest formation, the King’s Gurkha Artillery (KGA), has unveiled the cap badge it will wear. This is…

Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza is a last resort

5 August 2025 4:18 pm

Reports last night from Israeli Channel 12 quoting a senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office have confirmed what…

Long live YouTube! It has been good to conspiracists like me

5 August 2025 3:30 pm

Even though I loathe almost all forms of technology and would happily disinvent the lot (apart, possibly, from airships which…

Is Bukele a tyrant or a triumph?

5 August 2025 12:00 pm

El Salvador’s young and telegenic president, Nayib Bukele, has rewritten the rules. Term limits? Scrapped. Presidential terms? Extended. Runoff elections?…

Trump is winning. That’s the GOP’s biggest problem

5 August 2025 5:06 am

Nothing is more dangerous than success. In America, anyone can survive failure – you get up, dust yourself off and try…

Kate Forbes showed real bravery

5 August 2025 4:15 am

There is a certain worldly cynicism aroused by the announcement that a politician is stepping down to spend more time…

Ann Coulter: On immigration, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein Files

5 August 2025 3:56 am

Ann Coulter, an American author, lawyer and conservative media pundit, joined Freddy Gray on the Americano podcast last Friday to…

Democrats don’t hate gerrymandering

5 August 2025 2:45 am

When more than fifty Texas House Democrats bolted for Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum, legacy media lauded them as…

Trump eulogizes Woke on Truth Social

5 August 2025 2:20 am

​​President Trump announced a major vibe shift on Truth Social today, declaring that he, like any other sane red-white-and-blue blooded American, finds Sydney…

Bonnie Blue and the menace of ‘para-porn’

5 August 2025 1:33 am

There are two proper responses to pornography it: to condemn it, and to ignore it. There are two other responses.…

Truss takes a pop at Badenoch over Tory record

5 August 2025 12:59 am

Uh oh. As if Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch didn’t have enough on her plate with the rise of Reform eating…

Edinburgh Fringe venue under fire over mixed-sex toilets

4 August 2025 11:51 pm

While the Supreme Court in April backed the biological definition of a woman, it would appear that in Scotland the…

Kate Forbes’s exit is proof the SNP has lost its way

4 August 2025 11:39 pm

In little over a week, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has lost two of its greatest political stars. Mhairi Black,…

Why the world is obsessed with white women

4 August 2025 10:47 pm

Until a couple of weeks ago, the clothing company American Eagle was mainly known as a kind of low-rent Levi’s.…

Why Kate Forbes is standing down

4 August 2025 9:13 pm

A year is a long time in politics. Just over 12 months ago, Kate Forbes MSP was made Deputy First…

Do motorists really need this car finance payout?

4 August 2025 8:53 pm

It was, at least, far better than the City feared. Shares in banks and finance houses such as Lloyds and…

Putin’s economic alchemy can’t last forever

4 August 2025 8:45 pm

The Kremlin’s accountants are having a problem: Russia’s state budget, once the engine of spectacular growth, is now flashing red. The…

Could Prince Andrew’s reputation sink any lower?

4 August 2025 7:53 pm

Even the most seasoned royal watchers may not have expected the revelations that came from the serialisation of Andrew Lownie’s…

Picking on foreign students won’t solve the migration crisis

4 August 2025 7:34 pm

We can’t stop the illegal migrants, so let’s crack down on legal ones instead. That pretty well sums up the…