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Is there such thing as a fair Trump trial?

2 February 2024 10:00 am

I’m an unlikely defender of Donald Trump. Politically, he’s not my boy. Most of the former president’s hyperbolic rants make…

Biden should stop appeasing Venezuela, says Salazar

2 February 2024 6:44 am

Venezuelan presidential hopeful María Corina Machado had filed a claim in December, arguing to the country’s highest court, that a…

Staffer filmed having gay sex in Senate office will not face charges

2 February 2024 4:15 am

The Senate’s gay sex scandal started with a bang, but has ended with a whimper. This morning, the Capitol Police…

Nicola Sturgeon wasn’t the only one to politicise the pandemic

2 February 2024 2:39 am

Nicola Sturgeon ‘could cry from one eye if she wanted to,’ Alister Jack told the UK Covid Inquiry this morning.…

Interest rate cuts are on the horizon

2 February 2024 2:20 am

The Bank of England (BoE) has held interest rates at 5.25 per cent for the fourth time in a row. This is…

The Northern Ireland Brexit deal isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

2 February 2024 1:34 am

Rishi Sunak’s new Brexit deal is an end to any dreams of a UK that runs itself. Much of the…

Labour woos business with a corporation tax pledge

2 February 2024 1:07 am

One of the big changes in the Labour party since Keir Starmer took over from Jeremy Corbyn is the approach…

Why is the civil service being given lessons on ‘microaggressions’?

2 February 2024 12:35 am

Civil servants are being given lessons instructing them not to roll their eyes or look at their mobile phones while…

The post-Brexit crisis in Northern Ireland is finally over

1 February 2024 10:43 pm

Rishi Sunak, with almost daily input from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the Democratic Unionist Party leader, has just delivered a deal…

Nothing will change after Mike Freer stands down

1 February 2024 9:36 pm

Nothing will change in the wake of Mike Freer’s decision to stand down. That a Member of Parliament says he…

Britain must help Burma win its freedom

1 February 2024 7:53 pm

Three years ago today, the military in Burma (or Myanmar, as the junta prefers to call it) plunged the country…

Spain and the mystery of Scotland’s Covid travel list

1 February 2024 6:00 pm

Nicola Sturgeon had a very rough time at the UK Covid-19 inquiry in Edinburgh yesterday. A sticky moment in particular…

What’s going on with Nicola Sturgeon’s memory?

1 February 2024 8:27 am

Nicola Sturgeon’s memory is a fascinating and frustrating thing. At times, the former First Minister of Scotland’s powers of recall…

California’s next freedom to lose: speeding

1 February 2024 7:07 am

There are perfectly practical reasons to study philosophy. That’s what I told my teenage daughter when she came to me…

Nicola Sturgeon’s torrid time at the Covid Inquiry

1 February 2024 4:30 am

Nicola Sturgeon’s afternoon at the Covid Inquiry was pretty brutal. She was subjected to a difficult round of questioning on…

David Cameron is in a muddle over Palestine

1 February 2024 1:46 am

The definition of madness, commonly attributed to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a…

Starmer and Sunak argue about a man called Phil

1 February 2024 12:36 am

Keir Starmer opened PMQs by describing ‘the plight of the Member for Mid Norfolk’, whose mortgage had gone up by…

Martin Bashir continues to haunt the BBC

31 January 2024 10:53 pm

In the annals of those connected with the contemporary Royal Family, it is hard not to see the journalist and…

No, Brexit checks won’t push up food prices

31 January 2024 10:43 pm

It is one of those occasions when you don’t need to wait for tomorrow’s newspapers to know what will be…

Labour U-turns, yet again

31 January 2024 9:37 pm

Another day, another Labour U-turn. This morning it’s the turn of Rachel Reeves, who has done another copy and paste…

Jeremy Hunt should ignore the IMF’s tax cut warning

31 January 2024 8:58 pm

Government borrowing is lower than had been forecast. The economy needs some form of a boost. And perhaps most of…

Will expat voters really help the Tories at the next election?

31 January 2024 7:49 pm

With opinion polls predicting an oncoming electoral shellacking for the Conservatives, it is unsurprising that Rishi Sunak is hoping to…

Mass migration will make the housing crisis so much worse

31 January 2024 5:58 pm

We can have mass migration or we can have affordable housing. But it’s hard to see how we can possibly…

Is Taylor Swift a psyop?

31 January 2024 8:38 am

In 2024, right-wingers are facing a doddery, often incoherent Democratic president, an even more incoherent VP (who doesn’t have the…

The surprising truth about ‘Nanny State’ Britain

31 January 2024 3:03 am

This week, a Conservative Prime Minister announced he was banning something – disposable vapes. The reaction to that ban –…