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Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?

5 February 2025 9:50 pm

Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also…

Watch: Kay Burley retires from Sky on air

5 February 2025 9:30 pm

So. Farewell then Kay Burley. After 36 years, the Sky star has announced she is retiring from the channel. In…

Record Channel crossings expose Starmer’s failure to ‘smash the gangs’

5 February 2025 9:28 pm

More migrants have illegally crossed the English Channel since 1 January than in any previous year for this period. So…

Can our justice system handle cases like Lucy Letby’s?

5 February 2025 9:25 pm

Could Lucy Letby, the UK’s most notorious child-murderer, be innocent? The question has rumbled on ever since her convictions for…

The real problem with CCHQ 

5 February 2025 5:58 pm

When Kemi Badenoch’s leadership got off to a less-than-inspiring start, her defenders made a reasonable case that she needed more…

The audacity of Trump’s Gaza plan

5 February 2025 5:30 pm

Some moments in history demand recognition, not just for their weight in the present but for the seismic shifts they…

Gabbard and RFK Jr. head closer to confirmation

5 February 2025 8:47 am

For the past month, the tone among Washington insiders was dour as it related to the confirmation prospects of Donald…

Why Trump hates USAID so much

5 February 2025 4:32 am

The Trump administration’s takedown of federal spending has begun in earnest with the dismantling of the US Agency for International…

Trump’s popularity amongst Brits is rising

5 February 2025 4:23 am

Back in July 2019, Donald Trump called Boris Johnson ‘Britain Trump’, before adding ‘that’s probably a good thing, they like…

Eleven lowlights from the assisted dying evidence session

5 February 2025 2:59 am

To Westminster, where last week Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill began the evidence session of committee stage. But rather than…

Starmer set to close Chagos deal in ‘coming weeks’

5 February 2025 2:48 am

Is Sir Keir Starmer determined to make himself more unpopular with the British public? The news of his latest Chagos…

Revealed: ONS blames Ring doorbells for dodgy jobs data

5 February 2025 2:26 am

What caused the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to lose faith in its own jobs figures? After the pandemic, the…

Burnham’s night czar eviscerates Reeves

5 February 2025 1:07 am

Oh dear. It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – so that means more bad news for Rachel Reeves. Today, the…

What Trump’s tariff ‘opening salvo’ will teach him

5 February 2025 12:29 am

Mexico and Canada have been given a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s tariffs. China has offered only the most half-hearted…

Trump’s tariff war with China is just getting started

5 February 2025 12:04 am

Over the weekend, Donald Trump described his sweeping 10 per cent tariffs against Chinese goods as an ‘opening salvo’. Within…

Will Starmer choose Brussels or Trump?

4 February 2025 11:44 pm

Europe or America – the eternal British dilemma. Keir Starmer made clear he rejects such a binary approach in his…

What does Donald Trump want from a trade war with China?

4 February 2025 11:27 pm

What are the real intentions of Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth…

Starmer may come to regret his EU defence pact

4 February 2025 10:03 pm

Sir Keir Starmer has been on another overseas visit. On his 18th trip in seven months as prime minister, he…

Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council

4 February 2025 9:12 pm

Today’s Telegraph splash could have been designed in a laboratory to trigger Tory tempers. After months of deliberation, the paper…

Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’ 

4 February 2025 8:25 pm

At last, some news of an industry in Britain that is flourishing. Unfortunately, it is one that is helping to…

Reform tops a YouGov poll for the first time

4 February 2025 6:38 pm

There’s reason for cheer at Reform HQ this morning: Nigel Farage’s party is leading Labour in a YouGov voting intention…

Germany’s immigration election is heating up

4 February 2025 6:07 pm

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…

Canada’s tariff reprieve isn’t a victory for Trudeau 

4 February 2025 5:30 pm

US President Donald Trump’s long-standing threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico didn’t materialise yesterday. Both…

Who cares about the cold old?

4 February 2025 5:10 pm

When I was a child, we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced slum in Walthamstow, East London with bombsites at…

The voice coach row reveals how Keir Starmer will come unstuck

4 February 2025 5:01 pm

The news that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the adenoidal android – has employed a voice coach is simply…