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Is Labour tough enough to act on Gauke’s prison review?
Uncork the Gauke! In the coalition years, whenever George Osborne found himself in a tight spot as Chancellor, advisers would…
Kneecap member charged with terror offence
To Kneecap, the Irish republican band under fire over controversial concert footage – which appeared to show one of the…
Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead in DC
Two Israeli Embassy staffers – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram – were shot dead outside an event in Washington, DC,…
Can Labour prevent the justice system from collapsing?
David Gauke’s long-awaited Sentencing Review is here. If its recommendations are accepted, we will see thousands of people spared jail…
Could the EU sideline Britain in its defence loan scheme?
The Security and Defence Partnership which the government agreed with the European Union this week has had more spin applied…
How George Wendt embodied American television
The American sitcom Cheers depicted a Boston bar where everybody knew your name, and its most loyal customer, Norm Peterson,…
Trump’s skewering of Cyril Ramaphosa was pure theatre
We got another round of extraordinary scenes coming out of Donald Trump’s Oval Office yesterday. During his meeting with Cyril…
King’s College Cambridge is wrong to cut ties with arms firms
Who says that student activism is pointless? Setting up a tent, donning a keffiyeh, and camping out on your university’s…
Exclusive: Errol Musk: my son and Trump are right about the ‘white genocide’
Elon Musk stood silently in the Oval Office, eyeballing the South African president while Donald Trump tore into the ANC…
Watch: Trump confronts South African president
Just what is it with Oval Office encounters? Three months after his spat with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump is at…
The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling
Just when you thought Israel couldn’t be any more evil, yesterday we learned that thousands of babies are set to…
Will Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield ever be built?
Donald Trump has outlined his plans for a ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system over the United States. The aim is…
Monarchism is a real threat to the German state
Last week a man called Peter Fitzek was apprehended by police. He calls himself King Peter I, and he is…
Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams
College professors like to fondly recall the days before ChatGPT. And, as you listen to them wax eloquent, you could…
Badenoch responded well to Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn
That hardly ever happens. A major climbdown was announced in the house of commons at PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer used…
Starmer has surrendered to the EU
Sir Keir Starmer boldly claimed in the House of Commons this week that his ‘reset’ deal with the EU would…
Kemi’s best PMQs yet
Kemi Badenoch was on good, brutal form at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Keir Starmer had tried to spike her guns…
Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn is a big mistake
One of Keir Starmer’s first mistakes in office was to remove the winter fuel allowance from all pensioners other than…
Banning pointed kitchen knives won’t make us safer
Anarcho-tyranny is a term used to describe societies which obsessively regulate and punish law abiding citizens, while being unwilling or…
Corbyn changes mind on Lowe’s Lucy Connolly motion
Rupert Lowe may have left Nigel Farage’s Reform party, but he’s certainly keeping himself busy. Now the MP has tabled…
More than anything, Israelis want the hostages home
The war in Gaza, now in its 19th month, has reached a tipping point. On Monday, the UK, France, and…
David Lammy is wrong to halt trade talks with Israel
In recent weeks, Britain has wrapped up trade deals with India and the United States and is on the lookout…
Starmer U-turns on winter fuel cuts
To Prime Minister’s Questions, where Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the Labour lot will in fact reverse parts of…
Patrick O’Flynn helped make Brexit possible
Yesterday, the world dimmed a little. Patrick O’Flynn, a man who was both a titan of the Brexit cause and…
Thank God Angela Rayner isn’t Chancellor
Rachel Reeves may have killed off growth with her raid on employers’ National Insurance contributions, but today comes a reminder…
