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Coconut placards and the truth about free speech in Britain
When you describe what happened, you realise how ridiculous it was. A woman was dragged to court for holding up…
The trouble with the Champions League
The revamped Champions League kicks off this week with all the gushing hyperbole we have come to expect from this…
When will EU flag wavers get the message?
Arguing about the last night of the Proms is as much of an annual tradition as the music itself. Usually…
Martin Hewitt is the right pick for ‘border tsar’
The ‘border tsar’ isn’t the official title for Martin Hewitt. The former police chief has been appointed to the new…
Starmer faces backlash over Meloni meeting
There’s trouble in Sir Keir’s Labour paradise, it seems, after the Prime Minister jetted off to Italy for a migration-focused…
The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen
When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities.…
Trump and Kamala are competing over who’s more online
The messaging in the 2024 election has devolved into a contest to determine which campaign is more online, to their…
Lib Dem conference plunged into gender row storm
The Liberal Democrat party conference: surely a bastion of good old-fashioned free speech? Sadly not, it seems, given the storm…
Ukraine can’t wait for a decision on long-range missiles for ever
Last week was electric with anticipation. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited London for a UK-US ‘strategic dialogue’,…
The lesson Keir Starmer could learn from Francois Fillon
Sir Keir Starmer, the man often dubbed ‘Mr. Rules’ for his reputation as a stickler for ethical conduct, now finds…
Huw Edwards avoids jail time over child abuse images
To Westminster magistrates’ court where Huw Edwards has this afternoon been handed a suspended jail sentence of six months imprisonment,…
Starmer shouldn’t rush to copy Meloni’s Albania migrant plan
One of the first things Keir Starmer did on entering Downing Street in July was to abandon the previous government’s…
Electric vehicle targets are completely pointless
Labour might relax the ban on the sale of new petrol cars that is scheduled to come into force in…
Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s would-be assassins
What happens when you continually demonize someone as “Hitler,” insist that he is “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy?”…
Watch: Yvette Cooper’s awkward interview on Lady Starmer’s wardrobe
Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t been in office three months yet and already the Labour government is mired in cronyism controversies.…
Does Starmer have the gall to send asylum seekers to Albania?
Sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda would, of course, be a moral outrage. We know this because Labour shadow ministers kept telling us…
Can Starmer’s border security commander ‘smash the gangs’?
Keir Starmer finally has a chair for the government’s Border Security Command. When the Prime Minister first entered government, the…
Will Michel Barnier govern for the provinces or for Paris?
Michel Barnier will unveil his government in France this week, a fortnight after the 73-year-old was nominated by Emmanuel Macron…
Why do the Starmers need a personal shopper?
Well, colour me disappointed. I was among those – mugs, the uncharitable will be quick to call them – who imagined that…
Is Austria’s far-right Freedom Party heading for victory?
Amidst all the focus on the triumph of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in Thuringia’s local state elections earlier this month,…
What doesn’t kill Trump makes him stronger
As if there hadn’t been enough drama in America in 2024, Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt. The attempted…
Man in custody after apparent Trump assassination attempt
One man is in custody after shots were fired at former president’s Donald Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach,…
Man in custody after ‘assassination attempt’ on Donald Trump
Multiple shots were heard at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach where the former President was golfing on…
Lib Dems take a swipe at JD Vance
Conference season has begun in earnest and the Lib Dems are having a whale of a time in Brighton. After…
David Lammy: Labour ‘won’t be bullied by Putin’s shameless grandstanding’
This week the prime minister and Foreign Secretary David Lammy flew to the US for discussions involving whether to allow…
