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The truth about Britain’s transition to ‘clean energy’
The timing couldn’t have been worse. Under leaden November skies, came news of what many have suspected: energy rationing for…
How Trump won over Latino voters
A huge surge of support from the Latino community helped Donald Trump to victory in the US election. I could never envision myself voting for…
May backs Hague for Oxford Chancellor bid
In a year of elections, none are bigger than that for Oxford Chancellor. Just five candidates remain in the race…
Why was Europe not ready for Trump?
Donald Trump has won his third presidential election and across Europe heads are exploding. This should not be the case.…
How did pollsters get Trump’s victory so wrong?
Was Donald Trump’s win unexpected? Not if you followed the betting markets, which had Trump at a two-thirds chance of…
SNP health secretary under fire over football
What is it with separatist health secretaries claiming from the public purse for the footie? First there was the £11,000…
Keir Starmer’s pointless meeting with Emmanuel Macron
It’s extremely difficult to imagine that today’s meeting between Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron produced anything substantive beyond a photo opportunity…
Why Farage should – and shouldn’t – be UK ambassador to Trump
It is very kind of Nigel Farage to offer his services as a kind of intermediary between our government and…
Labour’s exam reforms make some sense
In an address to 1,500 school and academy trust leaders, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson last week asked schools to stop…
Labour is doomed if it is blamed for price rises
It emerged over the weekend that Tesco might have to start putting up prices. So, we have learned over the…
Full list: how will the cabinet vote on assisted dying?
There are less than three weeks to go until MPs vote on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying private members’…
JK Rowling blasts Alastair Campbell over women’s rights remarks
Has The Rest is Politics podcast peaked? Its hosts have certainly had a rather rocky ride of late – with…
The great flaw in the Human Rights Act
Our new government’s most closely-held commitment is to the primacy of human rights law. Shortly after taking office, Keir Starmer vowed…
Ukraine will be worried if Trump has called Putin
When Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Wednesday, one leader’s message of congratulation was conspicuously absent. It took…
Farage should have been allowed to lay a wreath on Sunday
There was a cranky call doing the rounds online last week suggesting veterans should turn their backs on Sir Keir…
Labour minister obfuscates over defence spend target
While Sir Keir Starmer is in France this Armistice Day to place wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe, the Prime…
Jamie Oliver shouldn’t have cowed to some Aboriginal offence-takers
The celebrity cook Jamie Oliver has a sideline as an author. Not all his books are about cooking and food:…
Germany and the politics of blame for the first world war
Wars begin and end in controversy. The war that ended 106 years ago today with the armistice of 11 November…
Why Britain should actually woo Trump
We went to Skye last year on a family holiday – an amazing island, beautiful scenery, so many great people.…
Peanut the squirrel shows Elon Musk is wrong about the mainstream media
Was it Peanut wot won it? One of the stranger and more incendiary aspects of the run-up to the recent…
Evangelicals have questions to answer over the John Smyth scandal
Justin Welby has said he considered resigning as Archbishop of Canterbury over the findings of the Makin Review into the…
Georgia is in an existential fight
Georgia is defined by its fight for survival. Lying in the shadow of Russia, Turkey and Iran, it has navigated…
What the First World War can teach us about the Third
It is our duty on Remembrance Sunday to honour the fallen. But to do justice to their sacrifice, we should…
The Royal Family must be careful with Kate
If this year’s Remembrance Sunday was unusually affecting, it was in large part due to the presence of both the…
Could Streeting’s smoking ban breach Brexit terms?
Labour ministers are very keen to be good Europeans. But could the cause of closer continental ties come at the…
