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Kemi Badenoch must not drop net zero
Giorgia Meloni had it right. ‘There is nothing,’ the Italian prime minister said in 2022, ‘more right-wing than ecology. The…
Sadiq Khan’s Eid message is a disgrace
London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan published a video online earlier this week to mark the Muslim festival of Eid. Released…
Why Democrats can spin two Florida losses as good news
It’s been a minute since Democrats have heard any good news coming out of Florida, a one-time swing state where…
Labour’s welfare crackdown is a sham
You can already sense Rachel Reeves’s spin machine whirring into action. It was Donald Trump wot ruined my careful book-keeping,…
Starmer claims Adolescence is a documentary – again
Does Prime Minister Keir Starmer understand the difference between fact and fiction? Mr S isn’t so sure – after the…
Support for Labour drops to new poll low
Support for Labour has dipped to a new low in more bad news for the reds. Data released today reveals…
Israel is gambling that military action can end the war in Gaza
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) is to launch a large-scale expansion of its military operations to seize and occupy more…
Why Israel is ramping up its war on terror
The war in Gaza has entered a more consequential and unforgiving phase. Early this morning, Palestinian sources reported that Israeli…
Marine Le Pen is in a race against the clock
Marine Le Pen is fighting back, launching an all-out counterattack against a Paris court’s decision to suspend her from politics.…
Trump is starting to face tariff blowback
Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he…
We’re still suffering from social long Covid
It’s not unusual, after running a focus group, for a particular comment to stay with you for days. Ordinary people…
Are Western companies heading back to Russia?
Ever since Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone conversation with Vladimir Putin last month, Russia has been buzzing with speculation that Western…
Trump’s tariff plan has been tried before. It failed
Donald Trump thinks ‘tariff’ is the ‘most beautiful word in the dictionary’. Today is ‘Liberation Day’, and the US president…
Trump’s tariffs could damage the dollar
Donald Trump says his tariffs are about liberation. But his aggressive turn toward protectionism may signal the beginning of a…
Let them eat woke
If you have ever been desperate and adrift, you understand the Democratic Party’s frustration. One day, James Carville tells his…
What should Netflix do its next drama on?
How do you achieve anything in British politics? It’s simple: turn your cause into a TV drama. First, it was…
The minimum wage is too high
Council tax is going up. Train fares are rising. Broadband will cost more, and so will electricity and water. April…
Why the West doesn’t understand Burma
The earthquake that struck Burma and its neighbouring countries on Friday has caused an immense human tragedy. Centring on Mandalay,…
Streeting and Farage face off on Fools’ Day
Happy April Fools’ Day one and all. As it is now after 12, Mr S has been hopefully scouring the…
The US is right about free speech in Britain
The US government’s threat to scupper any trade deal with the UK unless we commit to widening free speech not…
America’s involvement in Ukraine is finally being revealed
The US-led coalition to help Ukraine was always more than just a production line of arms deliveries to the Kyiv…
Screening Netflix’s Adolescence in schools is a mistake
Keir Starmer has welcomed Netflix’s decision to make Adolescence available to screen for free in secondary schools. The Prime Minister, who watched the…
Trump, le Pen and the legal war on politics
A few days ago, Raphaël Glucksmann, a French Member of the European Parliament and co-president of the left-wing Place Publique…
If only Meghan Markle’s ‘As Ever’ launch was an April Fool
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the…
Ed Davey’s Lib Dems need to grow up
The Liberal Democrats launched their local election campaign yesterday in what has become their fashion: not with a serious speech…
