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Three key flaws in Starmer’s immigration crackdown
Sir Keir Starmer wants you to believe he’s serious about bringing immigration down. Faced with the political threat of Reform…
What’s the truth about immigration and economic growth?
If the consequences of Labour’s heavy losses in the local elections were not already clear, they became so in this…
The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling
What really caused the countrywide unrest after the Southport massacre last summer? Last week, a report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate…
My advice to Diddy – by Anna Delvey’s attorney
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team is facing a daunting task. More than 50 witnesses – including A-list stars – are…
Starmer will struggle to deport foreign criminals
The government is rattled on immigration. Forget its liberal metropolitan supporters: just-about-managing voters from Whitehaven to Waltham Cross are deadly…
Congratulations to Graham King, the asylum billionaire
It’s always heartwarming to hear of a person who starts from humble origins and, through sheer entrepreneurial vim, makes something…
Scottish Labour leader turns on assisted dying bill
To Holyrood, where parliamentarians will tomorrow vote on Scotland’s assisted dying bill. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur has put forward…
Donald Trump can be sensible
We’ve learnt three things about the future of world trade from the temporary reprieve over tariffs that the US has…
The graphs that expose Keir Starmer’s failure to ‘stop the boats’
After ten months in office, Keir Starmer has promised to ‘finally take back control’ of migration – but what’s his…
The Spectator: the magazine police don’t want you to read
Retired special constable Julian Foulkes is one of the latest targets of police officers who seem more eager to crack…
Starmer mustn’t let Trump kill the Digital Services Tax
Donald Trump has his eyes on Britain’s Digital Services Tax (DST). The tariff-touting US President insists that the tech firm…
Keir Starmer is wrong to think immigration is just a numbers game
Should the government set a cap on immigration? Do we need to pull out of the ECHR (European Convention on…
China has won the trade war with Trump
This weekend, the United States struck a deal with China that will see American tariffs on Beijing’s exports come back…
Starmer: migration control is a ‘core Labour value’
This morning, the Home Office is publishing its long-awaited white paper on legal migration. The Home Secretary has already been…
Will Trump’s war on Big Pharma work?
Cynics will scoff at Donald Trump’s latest initiative: issuing an executive order forcing pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices of…
Is Barbara Woodward right for MI6?
This time last year Britain’s top cyber spy warned that China represents an ‘epoch-defining challenge’. Anne Keast-Butler, the director of…
Putin and Zelensky just want to appease Trump
Ceasefire then talks, or talks then ceasefire? This has emerged as one of the pivotal issues in the diplomacy around…
Trump’s film tariffs will hurt, not help, Hollywood
Observers of the American film industry have been fretting about its prospects for almost as long as it has existed.…
Reintroducing elk can help restore England’s natural balance
After a 3,000 year hiatus, the mighty elk could soon return to England. Plans to reintroduce this towering creature were announced last…
US and China slash tariffs
The White House has announced a breakthrough in trade negotiations with China following two days of talks in Switzerland. Yesterday,…
Yvette Cooper: ‘We are closing care recruitment from abroad’
Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration.…
The police have lost it
When hyper-liberal identity politics went into overdrive in that year of madness, 2020, one of the greatest casualties in this…
Watch: grooming gang victim criticises Lucy Powell
The row over Lucy Powell’s outrageous comments are not going away anytime soon. It was on Any Questions last week…
Could the death penalty return?
The attack on a prison officer by Axel Rudakubana, the killer of the three girls at a dance class in…
Justice by skin color resurrects Jim Crow
In America, we are told justice is blind. Hennepin County wants her to peek. Last week, the Department of Justice…
