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Victory lies ahead for Germany’s AfD
A state election in an eastern German territory with only 1.8 million eligible voters could prove pivotal for Europe’s largest…
Can AI really spot heart disease in less than two seconds?
September is here, and the mists and mellow fruitfulness have arrived as promptly as John Keats could have wished. His…
Trump has serious beef with American farmers
In August, Donald Trump sided with consumers by increasing the tariff-free quota on imported beef for 90 days beginning September…
The five takeaways from Reform’s conference
1) THE SPEECH Nigel Farage has made his big speech to Reform’s party conference in Birmingham this evening. It was…
Reform conference has an air of unreality
It hasn’t been a glittering 24 hours for Reform UK. To lose one senior official might be regarded as misfortune…
Watch: Farage’s conference speech disrupted by hecklers
Nigel Farage has just come off stage here at Reform conference, after a speech marred by disruptions. It started almost…
Danny Kruger: ‘Reform are not revolutionary. We are trying to restore’
In swoops Danny Kruger. He is a late replacement for Zia Yusuf, who has pulled out due to diary commitments,…
Reformers don’t care about the Channel 4 investigation
As Reform battled a political and media crisis beyond the confines of its conference, members inside the NEC secure zone…
Farage calls his aides ‘injudicious’ after signing boats pact with Bardella
Twenty minutes before Nigel Farage was saying he hadn’t done anything wrong, he must have felt, really, like there was…
Reform UK is a party in crisis
Deputy heads have rolled. Britain’s populist Reform UK party, in the person of chairman Lee Anderson, announced this morning that…
Are our maps colonialist?
It has been clear for years that the UN has fallen under the influence of left-wing activists and rapacious developing…
Bardella offers Britain European olive branch
In Birmingham, Reform UK has begun its conference amid a wave of allegations that has forced Nigel Farage to suspend…
Diane Abbott is embarrassing Britain
With parliament back after the summer break, the debate around increasing Britain’s defence spending – so febrile just two months…
The Met museum has humiliated John Galliano
John Galliano’s reign at Dior was before my time. But he was the first Brit to put his mark on…
What Burnham gets wrong about centralisation
On Tuesday, Andy Burnham returned to the House of Commons after almost ten years in the wilderness, bringing with him ‘a…
Why Holborn will reject Polanski
Zack Polanski exaggerates a great many things. He said that he could enlarge a woman’s breasts through hypnosis, that he…
AI, not climate change, is the greatest threat to mankind
In July, in Zaporizhzhia, in the southeast of Ukraine, a small Russian drone attacked a petrol station. Human operators had…
Laura Loomer shouldn’t dictate US deportation policy
Eleven years ago, on a cold midnight in Los Angeles, I lay on a chaise lounge at the pool of…
The Tories and Reform take the economic fight to Labour
Britain’s major right-wing parties today took the fight to Labour – and each other – over the economy. Kemi Badenoch…
Chris Langham was disgusting but talented
The death of the convicted sex offender, actor and writer Chris Langham of pancreatic cancer at the age of 77 brings…
Is Europe brave enough to keep pointing the finger at Putin?
Just under a month after three drones were discovered in quick succession at Leipzig airport, the German government took the…
Is Pete Hegseth running for president? Or getting fired?
Pete Hegseth has a face for television and a machismo of sorts. It appears, even to parts of MAGA, that…
Can Burnham afford to delay raising defence spending?
Can Andy Burnham really delay setting out how he will raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP by…
Polanski confirms run for Starmer’s seat
The Green party’s resident tit-whisperer, Zack Polanski – formerly Dave Paulden – looks set to take on Labour in the…
The day the Today programme lost the plot
I never wanted to be one of those grumpy ex-BBC types who write articles with headlines like ‘what has happened…
