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Labour MP rewrites the laws of economics
It is no secret that Labour MPs struggle to understand how wealth is created – hardly surprising when just one…
Will the heatwaves make this year’s French wines better?
It has been a punishing summer in France. Heatwaves, drought and forest fires have driven away tourists and made life…
How will harsh sanctions on Iran play out?
If you control the world’s largest economy, as the US does, and if your enemy depends on exports to the West, as Iran…
The Premier League has lost its passion
The new Premier League season kicks off tonight, with champions Arsenal playing newly promoted Coventry City at the Emirates Stadium.…
Andy Burnham’s plan to end rough sleeping will fail
Andy Burnham has gone further than any of his predecessors have in years in attempting to address rough sleeping in…
Ghent university shouldn’t have suspended Nathan Cofnas
It is ironic that the ‘be kind’ brigade beating their breasts and wailing about the ‘lynching’ and ‘assassination’ of Jason…
Ministers have finally admitted the unsayable about illegal immigration
In the build-up to the 2024 Tory leadership election, Kemi Badenoch declared that ‘not all cultures are equal’. Her argument…
America won’t miss Harry and Meghan
The prospect of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving the United States has been dangled by reports in the British…
Is Labour really considering a Rwanda-style scheme?
After two years in office, Labour may have begun to realise the Tories were right. One of Keir Starmer’s earliest…
The trouble with Cambridge’s education faculty goes all the way to the top
Professor Hilary Cremin, the head of Cambridge University’s education faculty, is best known as the woman who fawned over her…
The insanity of the Lindsay Clancy sympathizers
In 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, strangled her three children to death with exercise resistance…
Lucy Powell: There’s nothing wrong with migrant rape pamphlet
“What does this say about the people entering our country?” @NickFerrariLBC asks Education Secretary Lucy Powell why it’s necessary to…
The Victorian moralising of the Home Office’s migrant rape advice
The legacy of the Victorians is everywhere; we depend on them for our sewage disposal, our railway networks, much of…
Goodbye, Harry and Meghan
A shade over three decades ago, Gary Barlow and Take That sang “Whatever I said, I didn’t mean it, I…
J’accuse Will Self
When I wrote about the Jason Arday case, the whole point of doing so was to question the pile-on and…
Top wonk joins Jenrick’s gang
The summer transfer window is open and Reform UK is making its fair share of signings. Mr S has already…
Is there such a thing as a patriotic Scottish Unionist?
The Scots language advocate Billy Kay has caused a richt stooshie wi’ his thochts on Unionists and their lawte tae…
Why are more women trying to cross the Channel?
More than 190 hectares of coastal vegetation were destroyed by fire over the weekend in a region just south of…
The disappointing Darline Graham
When Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly last month from a heart condition, official Washington paused its partisan spitting contests to…
Why Burnham might regret his No.10 North plan
How realistic is Andy Burnham’s plan to make No. 10 North responsible for the government’s ‘growth mission’? The Prime Minister’s…
Kim Jong-un has everything to gain from a meeting with Trump
Will Trump and Kim Jong-un meet again? This is the million-dollar question after President Trump lauded his “very good relationship”…
How the SNP failed Ferguson Marine
In news that will surprise almost no one, it has emerged that Scotland’s state-owned shipbuilder, Ferguson Marine, is to cut…
Is the Treasury really being dismantled?
Treasury haters might raise a glass later because it looks like it’s finally happening: the PM has confirmed that the…
What Natalie Harp does for Trump
A beautiful and superfluous woman is the mark of a king. Why, then, did the Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff want…
Should Buckingham Palace reveal more about Charles’s cancer?
King Charles is currently on his summer holiday in Balmoral. After the stresses and difficulties of the past few months…
