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The Alba party has a mountain to climb
Kenny MacAskill has won the leadership of Alba and just to underscore how cursed that position is, he defeated his…
Reeves had a good day, but she’s hardly in the clear
Rachel Reeves’ Treasury team and the No. 10 communications staff should enjoy a drink tonight. The Spring Statement is a…
Which member of the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat are you?
Most people use groupchats to share memes, organize brunch or gossip. The Trump administration plans air strikes. After Atlantic editor-in-chief…
Labour isn’t building enough homes
Amid the back and forth during today’s Spring Statement over who really crashed Britain’s economy, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)…
The five bombshells in the OBR’s economic outlook
There is perhaps no document more useful for understanding the state of the nation than the Office for Budget Responsibility’s…
Reeves’s Spring Statement just doesn’t add up
Is Rachel Reeves toast? Not according to her. The Chancellor delivered an aggressively self-confident statement about Labour’s spending plans this…
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap
Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration…
Darren Jones compares disability cuts to pocket money
Oh dear. It seems that some Labour ministers are in desperate need of some media training. First, there was Seema…
Of course Jasmine Crockett should run for president
The leadership of the Democratic Party is as open as it has been in generations, with Nancy Pelosi occupying emerita…
Why are there more protests against Hamas in Gaza than Britain?
You’re more likely to see a protest against Hamas in Gaza than in London. For brave, spirited agitation against this…
Rachel Reeves can’t blame anyone else for stagnant growth
It didn’t take long for the Commons to spot the glaring omission in Rachel Reeves’s boast that the Office for…
Reeves’s Spring Statement was written for the OBR
Rachel Reeves didn’t want today’s Spring Statement to be seen as a budget, but a budget it has turned out…
Scotland’s universities must scrap free tuition
Scotland’s universities are in a crisis of Holyrood’s own making. The Scottish Funding Council is currently discussing bailout terms for…
Rachel Reeves’s non-Budget is very bad news
Rachel Reeves framed her Spring Statement around the insistence that Labour’s Plan for Change was already working, which meant that…
Keir tells Kemi that a phone ban in schools is ‘completely unnecessary’
Any session of Prime Minister’s Questions that takes place before a fiscal event is merely a warm-up act that everyone…
Can Ireland prove that it isn’t a ‘tax scam’?
Howard Lutnick, former CEO of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and now Secretary of Commerce in the Trump administration, has…
WATCH: Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ (kind of) for groupchat leak
It has been a furious week in Trumpland after White House officials accidentally added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a highly…
The sad demise of Prince Harry’s Sentebale charity
Prince Harry has had an eventful couple of years. There was the controversy-studded publication of his memoir Spare and a…
The University of Sussex has learned nothing from the Kathleen Stock debacle
The University of Sussex, one of the leading temples of progressivism in academia, has been fined £585,000 for failing to…
Labour minister confuses interest rates with inflation
Happy spring statement day, one and all. Today’s fiscal event – which is definitely NOT an ’emergency Budget’ – looks set…
We don’t live in an age of reason
When Tucker Carlson claimed to have been “physically mauled” by a demon in his sleep late last year, it was…
Ukraine is looking like the loser in Russia-US peace talks
Ukraine’s worst nightmare is coming true: Vladimir Putin has presented the bill to end his war – and Donald Trump…
Putin’s duo are spinning ceasefire talks to Russia’s advantage
The delegation Moscow sent to ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia was clearly well-chosen. Grigory Karasin, for example, the former diplomat…
Falling inflation may have rescued Rachel Reeves
Clothing retailers have saved Rachel Reeves from having to go naked into the debating chamber. As the Chancellor rises to…
Watch: Trump aide admits group chat leak
As Denis Healey said: ‘when you’re in a hole, stop digging.’ It has been a furious day in Trumpland after…
