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Downing Street flail over dodgy peerage offence
Just stop Doyle! It was another bad Prime Ministers’ Questions this week for Keir Starmer today. Once again, one of…
Why doesn’t the CDC care about Chinese biolabs in America?
If you rent a cheap Airbnb house in Las Vegas, you might not be altogether surprised to find dead crickets…
Ukraine has entered the grey zone
Kharkiv, Ukraine In a bunker on the outskirts of Kharkiv, a group of rookie Ukrainian soldiers are learning the basics…
Why Jew hate is spiralling out of control
The latest set of antisemitism figures from the Community Security Trust covering 2025 are depressingly predictable. Last year, saw 3,700…
Banning drill music from court would be a mistake
You have to watch the House of Lords carefully these days. Whenever a Bill on some fairly general subject, like…
Ed Miliband’s green promises are coming back to haunt him
It looks as if £300 will end up being to Ed Miliband what 45 minutes was to Tony Blair: the…
Farage is right about working from home
Not for the first time, Nigel Farage has hit a nerve. At a rally in Birmingham, the Reform UK leader…
It’s time to ban men from working in nurseries
Nathan Bennett was employed at a nursery, caring for toddlers, when he committed 21 sexual offences against five of them.…
I have so much in common with Angela Rayner, so why can’t I stand her?
Were I ever to share a cuppa with Angela Rayner, a certain spark of kinship might be expected. After all,…
Starmer suspends ex-comms chief over sex offender links
This is Keir Starmer’s worst week in politics – and it is still only Tuesday. The constant flailings of the…
Net zero is forcing BP into irrelevance
It should have moved ‘Beyond Petroleum’ by now, with wind, solar and hydroelectric power powering its profits. If you rewind…
Why won’t Sydney let Israel’s president speak?
‘From Gadigal to Gaza, globalise the intifada!’ This cry rang out on Monday night at an angry protest in central…
What lies behind the royal redactions?
Nothing has been as damaging for the British royal family as the unfortunate meeting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein.…
What Kemi Badenoch could learn from Sanae Takaichi
Well, she pulled it off. Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi took the bold gamble of calling a general election after…
The royal family has entered uncharted waters
The statement issued by Buckingham Palace last night, addressing the ongoing fallout from the latest release of Epstein files, was…
Is the Florida boom over?
During the pandemic, Florida became a haven for those looking to escape lockdowns. Miami was a “Zoom town,” a place where rich…
Is the Florida boom over?
During the pandemic, Florida became a haven for those looking to escape lockdowns. Miami was a “Zoom town,” a place where rich…
Couldn’t the Israelophobes give it a rest for one day?
Are Jews not allowed even one day of commemoration? Can’t they have just one sombre moment where they might remember…
Why Keir Starmer is a political failure
Whatever happens in Westminster, it ought to be clear to Labour MPs that Keir Starmer is a political failure. For those…
The problem with ‘diversifying’ English literature
Lit in Colour, a campaign launched by Penguin and the Runnymede Trust to diversify English literature, has recently released its…
The eternal danger of an actor without a script
Actors have been saying unscripted things again. Riz Ahmed is the star of a brand-new film version of Hamlet directed…
The restoration of parliament has become a shambles
For most of us the term R&R means the promise of rest and relaxation but for anyone associated with the…
Celebrity Justices compromise the Supreme Court
The real problem with US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attending the Grammys wasn’t that it revealed her true…
Now Starmer’s Cabinet Secretary exits too
Will the last person out of No. 10 please turn out the lights? First, it was Morgan McSweeney; then, Tim…
Universal Credit’s shadow system costs £10 billion
It’s been 13 years since the introduction of Universal Credit (UC), which was designed to simplify benefits and make work…
