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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,…
Trump is working overtime to restore the rule of law
In the matter of Donald Trump v. Leviathan, let me begin by stipulating that Sir Thomas More was right in A…
Chuck Schumer imperiled from the left and the donor class
The rapid nature of the turn against Chuck Schumer, ostensibly the most powerful Democrat in Washington as Senate Minority Leader,…
Harry Sisson and trial by TikTok
This week, a story emerged about a dozen or so young women who each thought they were monogamously dating 22-year-old…
How politics tainted the delayed homecoming of stranded astronauts
The return of two NASA astronauts – Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore – back to Earth after equipment malfunctions saw…
Are the Scottish Tories becoming irrelevant?
Another day, another poll that shows Reform could, from a standing start, pick up at least 14 seats at the…
Starmer looked scared of Badenoch at PMQs
At PMQs this week, Sir Keir Starmer got a proper grilling for a change. Kemi Badenoch used smarter tactics: short…
Who are the contenders to be the next ‘C’?
Somewhere in an office on the south bank of the Thames, a man is writing in green ink and signing…
Gareth Southgate has nothing original to say
Football’s most revered promulgator of platitudes is at it again. Sir Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, has warned that…
No one will thank Liz Kendall for doing her job
There are three thankless posts in a modern Labour government. There’s the Chancellor, who has to announce the tightening of…
Badenoch caught Starmer out at PMQs
Keir Starmer didn’t have to defend his welfare cuts until later in the session at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, because…
Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?
Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the…
A storm is brewing for Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is once again plunging Israel into a deeply polarising legal and political crisis. Over the weekend,…
Sturgeon unveils memoir cover
Nicola Sturgeon may be stepping down at the 2026 Scottish parliament election but fear not, the SNP’s Dear Leader won’t…
How Conor McGregor humiliated the Irish government
The Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin will have felt some relief after his visit to the White House last week. While…
Scotland’s politicians must take the Reform threat seriously
Support for Nigel Farage’s party in Scotland is surging. This is despite the fact the Scottish group has no party…
Bristol’s low traffic bullies have gone too far
At 3am last Thursday morning, council contractors and police descended on a Bristol neighbourhood to install roadblocks under the cover of…
