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North Korea’s nuclear ambitions knows no bounds
North Korea’s ninth party congress, held this week, was little more than a rubber-stamping exercise. That much was clear when…
Will Russia really be able to stop Britain’s nukes?
A recent report by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) argues that within the next decade, Russian missile defences may…
The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton
A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in…
More reviews won’t fix the NHS’s failing maternity services
NHS maternity services are in crisis: everyone knows that. In fact, everyone has known a lot more than that for…
Can Wes Streeting get the sick back to work?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has tried using the NHS for social engineering before. Previously, he’s suggested that weight-loss jabs could…
The Epstein files and the new Satanic Panic
I’ve spent the last few years building an audience of skeptics and – let’s be honest – more than a…
How Silicon Valley is calling the shots on the battlefields of Ukraine
Sometime in the late morning of February 4, somebody at SpaceX headquarters pressed a computer key. A command line was…
Starmer is destroying the ‘special relationship’
Britain’s relationship with the United States is special. Our ties run deeper than governments, are stronger than personalities and are…
The Greens’ Urdu ad is Zack Polanski at his worst
Progressivism is politics as fashion. The product is status and provocation the marketing strategy. The socialist, the liberal and the…
MAGA-nomics is working
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, the longest in history, served as a reminder of the relentless will and…
Keir Starmer needs a reality check
In the film Goodbye Lenin, a German family has to convince a fussy, old woman who is also a committed…
It’s time to treat social media like tobacco
There is growing momentum behind a ban on social media for the under-16s. Last week, the Prime Minister hinted that…
Japan is holding firm against China’s Taiwan bullying
One of the most serious issues in the well-filled in-tray of freshly endorsed Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi is Taiwan…
Badenoch savaged Starmer at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch was on savage form at Prime Minister’s Questions. The leader of the opposition has generally improved her performance…
Hoyle: I tipped off the Met about Mandy
Peter Mandelson is in a right old funk. Having been ignominiously hauled in by the Met for questioning on Monday,…
Iran is ready for war – is America?
In 2001, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met privately with Spain’s then-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. Aznar recounted how Khamenei…
Afghanistan is not ready for mass ‘returnees’
The word ‘return’ suggests something voluntary, even restorative: the closing of a long chapter of exile and the beginning of…
Can ‘calamity Lammy’ fix the justice system?
David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, has had a bruising five months. Last September, he took charge of the Ministry of…
The Baftas n-word row has been very revealing
At the Baftas on Sunday night, John Davidson – whose story of living with Tourette’s syndrome is dramatised in the (very…
What happened to ‘inclusivity’ at the Baftas?
You know, I’m starting to think those #BeKind folk aren’t half as kind as they make themselves out to be.…
Trump’s reality-show State of the Union speech
Donald Trump may have celebrated Team USA for winning the gold at the Olympics in hockey, but he was not…
The Iranian case for bombing Iran
Think about how bad things would have to be for ordinary Iranians to plead for Donald Trump to carry out…
Trump’s State of the Union address was pure theater
Watching Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address tonight, I thought of two homely things. One was something that a…
Ed Davey’s Andrew stunt backfires
Oh dear. It seems that Ed Davey – the most righteous man in all of parliament – has got it…
Reform has stepped up its donations game
One intriguing element of the battle on the right is the arms race for donations. Twelve months ago, Kemi Badenoch’s…
