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BBC issues support email to LGBT staff over Trump
The BBC’s legions of staff seem to be struggling to cope with, um, the news. The corporation has issued an…
Keir Starmer is a gift to Scottish nationalism
Southside Central is the kind of ward Scottish Labour needs to be winning. It’s in Glasgow, home to significant pockets…
The sorry fate of Nicola Sturgeon
The first thing to say is that Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in an investigation into the SNP’s funding and…
Trump is right to eradicate the Department of Education
Teachers’ unions have donated millions upon millions over the years almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and left-wing organizations. So it’s…
Is foul play to blame for the Heathrow fire?
Ed Miliband has made the confident and somewhat premature reassurance that there is ‘no sign of foul play’ in the…
The Guardian’s embarrassing Heathrow story slip-up
Uh oh. As the news about the closure of Heathrow airport circulates around the country, Mr S has been rather…
Why are so many Oxford students told they have ADHD?
Exams at the University of Oxford are tough, but there is one test that students nearly always pass with flying…
Why Prince William’s Estonia trip matters
It is a requirement of the Royal Family that they should remain politically neutral. They are, after all, the only…
We’re all paying the price for Ed Miliband’s net zero rush
Pursuing net zero is the ‘opportunity of the century’ which will create tens of thousands of well-paid green jobs and…
Britain’s borrowing is out of control
Rachel Reeves is having to borrow more and more money to keep Britain’s show on the road. Figures on the…
Israel’s Gaza campaign is far from over
The war in Gaza has resumed with a new intensity, but it would be a mistake to see this as…
Elon Musk’s AI predictions should terrify us
How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds…
Only Seb Coe could have saved the Olympics
Poor Lord Coe. His dream of leading the International Olympic Committee (IOC) – the most powerful job in international sport…
The World Happiness Report is a sham
Today is World Happiness Day. So, like every year on 20 March, you are likely to see a lot of…
Watch: Protestors storm the House of Lords
There’s no such thing as a quiet day in Westminster. This afternoon, demonstrators invaded the House of Lords in protest…
Don’t let gambling scaremongers ruin your March Madness bracket
Today tens of millions of Americans will happily place a billion bets they know they will lose. The tradition of…
The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor could backfire for Erdogan
Ekrem Imamoglu, Turkish president Erdogan’s main rival and the mayor of Istanbul, was arrested in the early hours on Wednesday.…
Ex-SNP chief appears in court as Sturgeon cleared of wrongdoing
Back to Scotland, where former chief executive of the SNP, Peter Murrell, has appeared in court charged with embezzlement. The…
Bank holds interest rate over inflation fears
The Bank of England has held interest rates at 4.5 per cent. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted eight to…
Macron wants to be France’s protector-in-chief
It has long been said by some of Emmanuel Macron’s opponents that he is a president who ‘governs by fear’.…
Public sector employment hits a record high
The state is bigger than ever. The number of workers employed in central government has hit 4 million for the…
How the NHS gave up on recording biological sex
If data is worth collecting, then surely it is worth collecting properly. As a scientist I’d argue that unreliable data…
The EU wants to shaft British defence firms
Sir Keir Starmer’s attitude to Europe and the EU is hard to fathom. As a left-leaning human rights lawyer who…
Netflix’s Adolescence is far from perfect
According to one gushing review, Netflix’s Adolescence is the ‘most brilliant TV drama in years’. And that verdict is at…
The JFK files will infuriate conspiracy theorists
When Donald Trump ordered the declassification of thousands of secret government documents on the assassination of president John F Kennedy,…
