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Britain’s economy is growing – but not for long
It must be bittersweet being Rachel Reeves. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy…
Labour is turning a blind eye to China’s persecution of Uyghurs
Of all Labour’s U-turns, none is perhaps more egregious than their stance on China. In opposition, they were happy to…
The Scottish Greens want everything to be free
The Scottish Green party can usually be relied upon to provide some light relief at election time. But this year,…
Trump is making life increasingly hard for his allies
Here is a fun one: what do Giorgia Meloni, Pope Leo XIV, Ed Miliband and the Cato Institute all have…
Oh the joy of watching Keir Starmer descend into fury!
Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living…
Does Mark Carney believe in democracy?
Mark Carney is swaggering about Canada with his new majority government, acting as if he’d just received a landslide mandate…
Starmer wants to ask, not answer, the questions at PMQs
Keir Starmer gave six responses to questions about Lord Robertson’s defence spending comments today, none of which addressed the criticism…
Rachel Reeves may regret goading President Trump
It is a ‘folly’ with ‘no clear exit plan’. The Chancellor Rachel Reeves certainly made little secret of her views…
The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate
The extremism of some in the Green party is increasingly being compared to Labour in Jeremy Corbyn’s time. But there…
What’s the point of the Sussexes’ undignified Australia tour?
Not since the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay in 1788 has a visit to Australia been so eagerly awaited…
Our gay asylum policy makes no sense
This morning, the BBC of all places, is reporting it has unearthed a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers’…
The lesson of Orbán: Trump must tackle corruption
The landslide defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán carries lessons across the ocean for Donald Trump and both MAGA…
Sorry, but America still holds all the cards
“Negotiations.” Are you heartened or dismayed by that word? Those who remember or who have read up on the seemingly…
Why I still watch PMQs
Is Prime Minister’s Questions past it? We frequently ask this question in Westminster when the Wednesday lunchtime ding-dong between the…
Why didn’t the green lobby stand up for the Chagos islands?
The credit for defeating Sir Keir Starmer’s Chagos surrender bill goes to its political opponents who waged a relentless and…
The dangerous lesson from Australia’s social media ban
The panic about children and social media rumbles on. The Labour government’s national consultation on banning under-16s from Instagram and…
Christopher Eccleston is right about young white men
It’s not often that actors talk sense or deviate from liberal-left orthodoxies when speaking on politics, so when they do…
Why young people like the Scottish Greens
The Scottish Greens’ manifesto for Holyrood 2026 proposes the most far-reaching overhaul of the economy north of the border. I’ve…
With Orbán’s loss, Russia has lost its European foothold
Péter Magyar’s landslide victory over Viktor Orbán is not just political earthquake for Hungary. It is Moscow’s worst result in…
Will Starmer fix any of Britain’s big problems?
George Robertson’s critique of the government’s reluctance to commit to proper defence spending is deeply politically inconvenient for Keir Starmer.…
Get ready for Labour’s ‘summer of sex’
‘Samantha Niblett’s Summer of Sex’ sounds like something that the police would have shut down during the grubbiest era of…
What the Guardian should have asked Francesca Albanese
There are times when even the Guardian is beyond parody. The newspaper which recently published an article by Iran’s foreign…
Starmer is being ‘corrosively complacent’ about defence
The old joke runs that you can tell when a politician is lying because his lips are moving. It is…
The IMF growth downgrade is more bad news for Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves lands in Washington tonight to be greeted with bad news. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) – whose spring…
Watch: John Bercow weighs in on Iran
Whooooo remembers John Bercow? It has been sometime since the disgraced former Speaker attracted Steerpike’s attention. Having been banished unceremoniously…
