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Is Labour brave enough to say the unsayable about the NHS?
Will this finally be the government which gets on top of the voracious financial monster that is the NHS and…
Tories smash Labour on latest donations
Some good news for Kemi Badenoch today. The latest donation figures for the end of 2024 are out – and…
Rupert Lowe won’t be the last to fall out with Nigel Farage
It was so predictable as to be almost inevitable: a massive row has erupted within the leadership of Reform UK.…
Watch: Trudeau’s tears after Trump tariffs
Donald Trump is intent on shaking things up in the White House and no one knows that better than neighbouring…
Why should MPs tell parents how to discipline their kids?
Is it about to become illegal for parents to discipline their child with a smack? We might have known that…
Japan and Britain are too weak to help each other
Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Business Secretary Jonathon Reynolds are in Tokyo for ‘2+2’ (two ministers for the price of…
What hope does John Healey have of influencing Trump?
In the eight months since he was appointed Secretary of State for Defence, John Healey has undertaken so many foreign…
Two-tier justice is taking over the courts
Two years ago, few had heard of the term ‘two-tier justice’. Indeed, Ministers and leaders across the criminal justice system…
Help, I’ve become a news junkie!
I’ve always been something of a news addict, but recent events in America and Ukraine have turned me into the…
Vegans shouldn’t be afraid of condemning Halal slaughter
An animal rights activist has exposed extreme cruelty at a slaughterhouse in Arley, Warwickshire. Joey Carbstrong’s secretly recorded footage shows staff slamming…
Matt Wrack will be a hardline teaching union boss
It has a whiff of the old trailer for Jaws 2, the one where viewers were disabused of the idea…
What’s the point of foreign aid?
The UK signed up to a UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on aid way back in…
Should the Scottish Tories ignore the Reform threat?
What do the Tories do with a problem like Reform? Kemi Badenoch’s party in Westminster has some time to consider…
Will the EU ever get tough on defence?
European leaders are in Brussels today for an emergency summit on defence, and the future of both Ukraine and the…
Watch: Tice forgets names of Reform defectors
Oh dear. Poor Richard Tice is the latest politician to have an embarrassing memory lapse. During his first trip to…
A tribute to Blair Wallace, a hero of the Troubles
The names of leading republicans like Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Bobby Sands are well known, but how many in…
NHS Scotland: call bearded trans staff ‘women’
It seems that NHS Scotland still hasn’t learned the lessons from the Sandie Peggie furore. Now it turns out that…
Trump staffers are ‘mid-tier’ and ‘abject,’ says Michael Wolff
Who would have thought that Michael Wolff would have another book about Donald Trump in him? UK Books editor Sam…
Is Reform serious about stopping the boats?
On no issue are Britain’s established political parties so compromised as on efforts to stop illegal immigrants gatecrashing our borders…
Rupert Lowe’s warning shot to Nigel Farage
There is a striking interview in today’s Daily Mail between Andrew Pierce and Rupert Lowe. The Reform MP is known for speaking…
How the Democrats fell into Trump’s trap
Fox News’s Brit Hume, one of America’s most respected political analysts, and a man more given to wry scepticism than…
Will Hamas take Trump’s Gaza ultimatum seriously?
‘“Shalom Hamas” means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose.’ So began Donald Trump’s furious social media post, an ultimatum wrapped…
Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will hit Ukraine hard
The United States’s decision to suspend all intelligence sharing with Kyiv is a less visible but almost as serious and…
Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance
Emmanuel Macron spoke to his people last night in a television address and told them that the future of Ukraine…
Could ethnic minority criminals soon find it easier to avoid jail?
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, has accused his Labour counterpart Shabana Mahmood of not believing in ‘equality under the…
