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Lord Hermer’s legacy is being rapidly unpicked
Unlike her predecessor, Lord Hermer KC, the new Attorney General Ellie Reeves KC MP has kept a low profile since…
Welfare reform will not save Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham repeatedly claims that he can fund defence using savings from the welfare budget – just not the ‘crude…
Twenty-five years after 9/11, is America growing complacent?
The ghostly silence and calm that settled over Washington, DC is what many in the city remember most about the…
Watch: Terminally ill Labour MP rails against assisted dying
Very powerful speech from @AshleyDalton_MP, who has stage 4 cancer and opposes the assisted dying bill. “I have been terrorised…
Boob-whisperer Polanski picked for Holborn bust-up
Tit-whisperer Zack Polanski has officially secured the Green nomination for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. Despite an internal row…
Britain is growing. Will Healey mess it up?
There are lots of reasons to seriously worry about the economy at the moment. The price of oil is surging,…
Disabled people will suffer if assisted dying becomes law
On 11 September, MPs will decide whether to proceed with the latest Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, sponsored…
‘A failure of imagination’ did not cause 9/11
On a balmy autumnal evening in October 2001, a secret task force assembled by the CIA and the Pentagon met…
Andy Burnham has given a gift to the SNP
Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in November 2022 that the Scottish Parliament could not hold a unilateral referendum on…
If Burnham won’t make cuts, the IMF will do it for him
Even the weather has been playing along with the bizarre 1976 tribute act in which we seem to be trapped.…
Exposed: The Cambridge University PR attacking Jason Arday’s black critics
A man called Lester Holloway has written a savage attack on black reporters who covered the Jason Arday scandal, saying they “have…
Don’t believe everything that AI companies say
Two big stories are driving interest in artificial intelligence this week. The first is the resignation of Jacob Coxon, a…
Labour’s woman problem is never-ending
Imagine you are a mother who has worked hard, played by the rules and saved every penny. You finally fulfil…
The desperation of the ‘Trump Dividend’
‘People don’t need no jobs,’ said Mike Judge’s marvellous comic creation, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. ‘I’m gonna…
Can we just stop AI?
On Tuesday, a 27-year-old British researcher called Jacob Coxon walked out of Anthropic, the San Francisco lab that has made…
My friend Charlie – and the line between good and evil
A year ago, on the afternoon of September 10, 2025, I was 20 feet away when my friend Charlie Kirk…
The Online Safety Act is wrecking the internet
When Nadine Dorries first introduced the Online Safety Act (OSA) in 2021, she said it would be ‘watertight’. Now, she…
How Britain can really keep itself safe from Putin’s Russia
It was one of those lines that probably felt like a zinger at the time, but may come back to…
We risk another 9/11 by ignoring Afghanistan
Twenty-five years after 9/11, and five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, armed resistance against their rule…
Scottish schooling was once the envy of the world. Then the SNP came to power
Scottish politics has all the dynamism of day-old porridge. Nothing ever changes, except for the worse. The latest results from the…
The assisted dying vote is a test of Labour’s core values
Andy Burnham has pledged to “eradicate” internal division and restore Labour’s sense of “common purpose”. The first major test of the…
Britain already knows what’s wrong with maternity care
There are a lot of things we know about NHS maternity: that it’s in crisis, that there are a lot…
Oil at $100 a barrel is a disaster for Trump
When Donald Trump’s political obituary comes to be written, none of his colorful phrases over the years will seem quite…
Met launches criminal probe into Reform donations
Nigel Farage faces yet another headache after the Met confirmed today that it will launch a criminal investigation into allegations…
Andy Burnham resembled an extreme train enthusiast at PMQs
Today was Andy Burnham’s second Prime Minister’s Questions and also his last one for five weeks. The mini-recess for the…
