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Why don’t striking doctors tell the full story?
The British Medical Association announced yesterday that junior doctors will be going on strike again next month, with a four-day…
Ireland is desperate for its own George Floyd moment
Ireland is in the midst of its own ‘George Floyd moment’. At least, that’s how a string of international headlines…
Why Murrell was able to get away with embezzlement
This week, the former chief executive of the SNP, Peter Murrell, pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000 from his party over…
Trump or Hochul: who knows ball?
The New York Knicks clinched an NBA championship spot Monday – and President Trump shared his excitement over his home…
Meet the anti-Gretas: the women celebrating nuclear energy
Over the course of their lives, Americans have an average carbon footprint of 1,300 tons of CO2. Paris Ortiz-Wines, a young woman from…
Wes Streeting wants to win over farmers
This week I’m on the road to hear directly from people who have lost faith in Labour, why and what…
The Greens’ Sarah Wakefield talks a load of nonsense
The Green party certainly knows how to pick them. Sarah Wakefield, the Green candidate in the Makerfield by-election, is the…
James Murray is facing his first big test
James Murray, who replaced Wes Streeting as health secretary 13 days ago, is facing a fresh round of strikes by…
Reform hits back after Labour MPs urge ‘Islamophobia’ probe
Reform today hit out at ‘pathetic’ Labour MPs for ‘kowtowing to Islamists’ after they reported the party to the Equality…
The rise of the Orienfluencers
The term “Orientalism” has always implied some kind of caricature of the eastern world. It was originally coined as a…
What is ‘Q Manivannan’ doing in British politics?
In an age full of nepobaby second-generation politicians posing as ‘outsiders’, new Green Party MSP ‘Q Manivannan’ is the real…
Sir Tony Blair rounds on the left
Number one bogeyman of the left, Sir Tony Blair, trained his guns on Labour this morning, launching a glorious attack.…
Did Sturgeon really have nothing to do with the SNP’s finances?
Having said she would make no further comment on the imprisonment of her husband, Nicola Sturgeon’s lawyer has issued two…
Tony Blair is right about Britain – but can’t own up to his mistakes
Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of…
Spare me the adolescent mush of Dear England
The football season lurches into its final week, with Arsenal, the newly-crowned champions of England, trying to win their first…
How the Manchester media failed to scrutinise Andy Burnham
‘Our Andy’ is, of course, Manchester – and Manchester is, of course, him. In recognition of that, no worshipper at…
The drone delusion
In March, Russia suffered 35,000 casualties in the war in Ukraine. It’s estimated 33,600 of those, an extraordinary 96 percent,…
France’s migration crisis will outlast Emmanuel Macron
France has maxed out on migrants. It’s a message that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has been pushing for…
The future belongs to Hunter Biden
As a human type Hunter Biden is familiar enough. Like George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy, he is a wayward…
If kids are banned from social media, adults will be next
‘Technology is addling young people’s brains, impacting on their education and attainment, impacting on their health and wellbeing,’ Wes Streeting…
How was poor Nicola to know about her husband’s embezzling?
Peter Murrell’s £400,000 spending spree is the biggest, and certainly the most entertaining, political scandal to hit Scotland in years.…
Holyrood votes for second independence referendum
As if Scotland hasn’t suffered enough at the hands of the SNP, the luxury campervan party and its Green accomplices…
What Pope Leo fears about AI
Pope Leo XIV has just passed the first great test of his pontificate. He has published a thoughtful encyclical on…
Is Nicola Sturgeon the least curious woman on the planet?
Peter Murrell is a strangely shiny man. He has the air of an undertaker who’s been siphoning off the corpse…
Gene-editing drugs are opening a new frontier in medicine
Older readers with bulging medicine cabinets, or parents eyeing their children’s distant futures, are not encouraged to read the New…
