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What Starmer’s immigration critics don’t get

14 May 2025 1:18 am

Keir Starmer has finally realised that he needs to tackle rising immigration. The Prime Minister said yesterday that Britain risks…

Will the Beeb sack Lineker over his pro-Palestine post?

14 May 2025 12:48 am

Will Gary Lineker ever learn? As if the BBC Sports pundit hadn’t caused enough controversy, now the left-wing centre forward…

Tory MP charged with sexual assault

14 May 2025 12:35 am

It is less than a fortnight since the Runcorn by-election, caused by the resignation of Mike Amesbury for punching a…

NHS ‘spy scales’ won’t tackle childhood obesity

14 May 2025 12:07 am

NHS England, ostensibly wishing to respond to the challenge of childhood obesity, announced yesterday the introduction of ‘spy scales’ to…

Trump and Netanyahu go their separate ways

14 May 2025 12:01 am

The release of Edan Alexander, the last living American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas, was a moment of profound relief for…

What can we really expect from the US-Iran talks?

13 May 2025 11:13 pm

This weekend in Muscat, US and Iranian diplomats held a fourth round of talks, continuing their efforts to find a…

How to get Gen Z to fight for Britain

13 May 2025 10:32 pm

It is easy to despair of young people as self-absorbed, isolated from reality and unwilling to take on the hard…

Brits now most concerned about borders since Brexit

13 May 2025 10:28 pm

On Monday Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his big immigration speech in which he warned that without tightening rules the…

Can France dismantle the NGO-migrant complex?

13 May 2025 9:53 pm

France’s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, and his party Les Républicains (LR) are moving to end the decades-long monopoly on providing legal…

Trump’s trade war is driving Russia further into China’s arms

13 May 2025 9:52 pm

Trade between Russia and China is no longer booming as it was immediately after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three…

When will the EU do a deal with Trump?

13 May 2025 8:38 pm

China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the…

Trump is treating Israel like a nettlesome supplicant

13 May 2025 7:00 pm

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the first foreign leaders to congratulate him were Israeli officials. Now, as he…

Reeves’s jobs tax is beginning to bite

13 May 2025 6:59 pm

Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK unemployment rate has risen to 4.5 per…

Man arrested after fires at Starmer’s home

13 May 2025 5:41 pm

After it emerged on Monday afternoon that the Metropolitan Police were probing a fire that had broken out at Sir…

Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?

13 May 2025 4:23 pm

‘The UK’s first ever gay dating show is louder, prouder, and more irresistible than ever,’ says the BBC about I Kissed…

What exactly is the point of Starmer’s EU defence pact?

13 May 2025 4:10 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s cherished agreement on defence with the European Union seems to have been high on the diplomatic agenda…

What the kids get right about the assisted dying bill

13 May 2025 4:00 pm

The brothers Grimm knew that it sometimes takes a child to call out what grown-ups think but dare not say.…

Ukrainians are giving up hope

13 May 2025 3:37 pm

I am a 37-year-old Ukrainian woman, and have recently returned from Odesa, where I was born and grew up, and…

Could the first American Pope be an America First Pope?

13 May 2025 4:42 am

“We do not need loud, forceful communication,” said Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born American prelate Robert Prevost – at his first press conference on Monday, “but…

How Zelensky is calling Putin’s bluff

13 May 2025 4:29 am

As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues on the battlefield, global leaders are waging their own campaigns through diplomacy,…

Can Britain end its dependence on foreign workers?

13 May 2025 3:48 am

Migration, migration, migration. Sir Keir Starmer didn’t express it like that in his Downing Street press conference, but he might…

Hamas is using Edan Alexander to win favour with Trump

13 May 2025 3:30 am

The last surviving American hostage held by Hamas in Gaza is set to be released as early as today, coinciding…

How America betrayed Edan Alexander

13 May 2025 3:09 am

When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed…

My encounter with the PKK’s Abdullah Ocalan

13 May 2025 2:43 am

The Kurdish militia group, the PKK, had decided to disband and lay down its arms, after decades of launching attacks…

Police probe fire at Prime Minister’s home

13 May 2025 2:43 am

To north London, where the Metropolitan Police are investigating a fire that broke out at Sir Keir Starmer’s personal home…