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Brussels chief gushes over Starmer

17 April 2025 11:20 pm

Sir Keir Starmer may not be polling all that well with the British public but he’s managed to garner some…

Labour’s gender debate hypocrisy

17 April 2025 10:54 pm

The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court justices’ unanimous judgment on Wednesday – confirming that ‘woman’ in the…

Can Starmer sell a US trade deal to UK business?

17 April 2025 9:13 pm

The White House reportedly expects that a trade deal between the United States and the UK could be signed within…

Who should have Elon’s next child?

17 April 2025 9:00 pm

The Wall Street Journal has published an eye-opening exposé on Elon Musk’s “harem drama,” diving into the relationships the world’s richest man…

Jenrick embroiled in UK ‘Signalgate’

17 April 2025 8:00 pm

It’s official: Robert Jenrick is running. Rarely a week now goes by without the Shadow Justice Secretary causing some sort…

Why is Starmer not fighting the EU’s new carbon tariff?

17 April 2025 7:25 pm

Why do so many people rail against the trade barriers erected by Donald Trump and yet have so little to…

China bans Boeing in targeted trade war shot

17 April 2025 7:00 pm

“If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going,” goes the old adage, championing the supposed superiority of the company’s planes on…

Joe Biden recalls ‘colored kids’ to be hero of their struggle

17 April 2025 7:00 pm

In his first public remarks since leaving office, Joe Biden recalled – without a hint of self-awareness – the moment…

Britain and France are too scared to tackle the migrant crisis

17 April 2025 6:35 pm

France has overtaken Germany as Europe’s top destination for asylum seekers. During the first quarter of 2025, France registered more…

What do Wes Streeting and Kemi Badenoch have in common?

17 April 2025 5:30 pm

Labour’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch have clashed on many things – from Chagos to…

Can Giorgia Meloni sweet-talk Trump on EU tariffs?

17 April 2025 5:14 pm

We are about to see how significant a politician Giorgia Meloni really is after she arrived in Washington yesterday evening…

How well are Wes Streeting’s health reforms going?

17 April 2025 4:36 pm

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has made a lot of promises about the NHS. Before he got into power, he talked…

Putin’s cronies are enjoying needling the West

17 April 2025 4:00 pm

Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), is in many ways an uncomfortable and ephemeral spy chief, but…

The case for chlorinated chicken

17 April 2025 4:00 pm

As a UK-US trade deal moves closer, an age-old fear is rearing its head once more: that Britain will be…

Sleepless in Shangri-La

17 April 2025 6:08 am

“You are suffering from what we call an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ effect,” Dr. Sankar informed me as I climbed out…

Could this be the last time I ever have to pay my taxes? 

17 April 2025 4:15 am

Another Tax Day has come and gone. Here I sit, all broken-hearted. The tax-industrial complex has once again swallowed up…

It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans

17 April 2025 2:55 am

It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans over the coming year and a half: tie them to Elon…

Will Sandie Peggie’s NHS board now U-turn?

17 April 2025 2:08 am

It’s a big day for women’s rights campaigners, after the Supreme Court this morning backed the biological definition of a…

Helen Joyce shares her joy at Supreme Court ruling

17 April 2025 1:44 am

The Supreme Court has unanimously backed the biological definition of a woman. Women’s rights campaigners across the country are celebrating…

Nicola Sturgeon should apologise to the women of Scotland

16 April 2025 11:56 pm

It is difficult to describe the emotion felt by lesbian and women’s rights campaigners when Lord Hodge announced the outcome…

‘Woke’ was invented by angry schoolgirls on Tumblr

16 April 2025 11:21 pm

For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political…

Why are student debaters being asked for their pronouns?

16 April 2025 11:16 pm

When the UK’s biggest school debate competition told us to declare our gender pronouns, I knew my team had lost the contest…

Ministers must now stand up for women’s rights

16 April 2025 11:15 pm

The highest court in the land was set the task of determining: what is a woman? Today it gave its…

Why did we need the Supreme Court to tell us what a woman is?

16 April 2025 10:59 pm

How did it come to this? How did we arrive at a situation where it fell to a court of…

Can we go back to calling terfs ‘women’ now?

16 April 2025 10:53 pm

In a landmark judgment, after years of controversy, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of For…