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What the Mandelson files tell us about Labour’s predicament
The final tranche of the Mandelson files was released this afternoon – though no thanks to Lord Mandelson. A Cabinet…
Danny Kruger: Reform will make Britain a great power again
Nigel Farage will seek to make Britain a ‘great power once again’, Danny Kruger announced today. Reform’s head of preparing…
Five highlights of the Mandelson files
Happy Mandelson files’ release day, one and all. After months of speculation, the Cabinet Office has today finally released all…
It’s a bit late for Cenk Uygur’s supporters to cry about free speech
Zack Polanski is fuming over the Home Secretary’s decision to ban two internet-famous Israel haters from the UK. It’s ‘really…
Did Brexit really harm economic growth?
This weekend, there were more claims that Brexit has led to slow economic growth in the UK, repeating the views of senior…
Why would France help Britain stop the boats?
It is nearly a year since Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron agreed their ‘ground-breaking’ deal to stop the small boats…
Will the Tories win the Aberdeen South by-election?
For all of the squabbling between Reform and Restore, the Right’s best chance at a by-election win on 18 June…
Rachel Reeves represents Labour’s short-termism at its worst
When Rachel Reeves became Chancellor, she made a lot of promises about improving the long-term prospects of the British economy.…
New Health Secretary: I’ve changed my mind on trans
“You’ve said in the past ‘trans women are women’. Have you changed your mind?”@JustinOnWeb asks new Health Secretary James Murray…
Ukraine’s relations with Poland are turning icy
Poland’s president Karol Nawrocki has threatened to strip Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Poland’s highest state honour after the Ukrainian leader awarded…
Is Britain right to ban Cenk Uygur?
I was invited back on to Piers Morgan’s show next week to debate Cenk Uygur, in studio, while he was…
Nicola Sturgeon is no victim
They should make a film about Peter Murrell, shouldn’t they? Starring, possibly, Leonardo DiCaprio. Nicola Sturgeon’s ex-husband is not only a crook…
What’s the real reason Nigel Farage has never been on Desert Island Discs?
Long gone is the time, towards the end of the last decade, when we all laughed off ‘safe spaces’ as…
Marilyn Monroe was just like the rest of us
Marilyn Monroe was born a hundred years ago today. She was famous enough in her lifetime to be one of…
Soho’s Nimbys are the worst in Britain
I am aware that there is limited interest in my domestic arrangements, but there is a reason why I’m telling…
Ministers must get the Defence Investment Plan right
The speech by Pete Hegseth, the US Defense Secretary, to Singapore’s Shangri-La Dialogue was addressed to a Pacific audience. His…
Trump has Iran over a barrel
When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? When the person declaring it is Donald Trump. Opinions differ about the wisdom…
The exchange which proved the absurdity of Australia’s gender laws
Almost 150 years ago, the famed British jurist A. V. Dicey wrote that sovereign parliaments ‘can do everything but make…
The SNP are creating a housing disaster
Scotland faces a housing disaster. Rents are ballooning, especially in Edinburgh and Glasgow; incomes are stagnant; and while its house…
Should Europe mediate Russia-Ukraine talks?
The worst job in the world is to try negotiating with President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine…
The uncomfortable truth about Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund
President Trump has faced relentless, extraordinary efforts to destroy him outside of heretofore normal political combat. The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago…
Put Orwell back on the syllabus!
It’s been an unrelenting dynamic of hyperliberalism that when it comes to the teaching of history and literature, it’s imperative…
Blair left Britain ‘run by HR’
In case you feared that the onslaught of political essays by wannabe (and current) prime ministers was beginning to dry…
Ukraine’s Jehovah’s Witnesses are refusing to go to war
Prison guards led Vitalii Kryschenko to an inhospitable, cramped cell. Inside, the prisoners were curious. They watched with great interest…
Don’t forget the evil of the Iranian regime
America’s war on Iran was supposed to give Iranians their freedom. But even in February, at the start of the conflict, the…
