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Rachel Reeves’ Budget is falling apart
It could be 30 per cent. Or 35 per cent? Or perhaps 39 per cent? Heck, who knows, if Rachel…
Treasury: no plans for Reeves’ robes
It’s tough times at the Treasury for poor Rachel Reeves. With three weeks to go until Labour’s first Budget, every…
Pro-life buffer zone residents could face £10,000 fines
Welcome to the land of the unfree – otherwise known as Scotland. John Swinney’s SNP government have laid out its…
Ron DeSantis’s climate bill has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton
Hurricane Milton has left more than two million homes and businesses in Florida without power and threatens to be a…
Labour under fire over Taylor Swift policing fiasco
Dear oh dear. It transpires that the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper received a free concert ticket to Taylor Swift’s shows…
Can HS2 be fixed?
Choose your expression: ‘stuck between a rock and a hard place’; ‘I wouldn’t start from here if I were you’;…
The Cuban ER doctor’s long-shot Senate bid in Washington State
Dr. Raul Garcia seems to follow a long Republican tradition in Washington State. He’s a fifty-three-year-old, Cuban-born ER physician who’s…
It’s time to stop the war on Malbec
The German historian Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz wrote about British tastes in alcohol in the eighteenth century: ‘In London they liked everything…
Wimbledon won’t be the same without line judges
It will soon be the end of an era at Wimbledon. From 2025, the All England Club has announced that…
The ‘Green Budget’ could leave Rachel Reeves red-faced
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published its yearly Green Budget, weeks ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first fiscal event. It’s…
What’s the problem with zero-hour contracts?
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to unveil her workers’ rights bill this week – and ‘exploitative’ zero-hour contracts…
Labour’s House of Lords peerage reform is just hot air
Labour’s crackdown on the House of Lords continues apace. In an effort to reform the upper house, parties could soon…
Why North Korea is cutting off all roads to the South
If you visit South Korea, you may be startled at the presence of road signs pointing towards Kaesong and Pyongyang:…
The SNP is in a donations row of its own
The thing about being holier than thou is that you actually have to be holier. Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader…
Sir Keir’s curious Falklands claim
While Sir Keir Starmer and outgoing Tory leader Rishi Sunak went tête-à-tête in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr S is…
The Tory heirs to Blair are no more
So the Conservative party is not going to try to become ‘more normal’ in the eyes of establishment centrists after…
Rishi Sunak is the most effective opposition leader since Tony Blair
Rishi Sunak’s fleet-footed performance at Prime Minister’s Questions exposed many of Keir Starmer’s shortcomings as Prime Minister. Sunak is the…
Weathering the storm: on the ground in hurricane-ravaged Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida I’ve lived in seven US states and five countries, but when I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida…
James Cleverly knocked out of Tory leadership race in shock result
What is going on in the Tory leadership contest? On Tuesday evening, it looked as though James Cleverly was on…
How bad will Hurricane Milton be?
‘Astronomical’; the ‘strongest storm in a century’; ‘nearing the mathematical limit for a storm’ – the increasingly fraught descriptions of…
The break-up of Google is long overdue
It’s innovative, it generates huge wealth, and it offers great products for completely nothing. The lobbyists for Alphabet, the parent…
Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden are on a collision course
Benjamin Netanyahu is set on a path which brooks no deviation. He wants victory against Hamas, victory against Hezbollah and,…
Bookies back Badenoch in final two crunch
The countdown for the two Tory leadership finalists is on – and in just over an hour the Conservative party…
Labour’s worrying creep back towards the EU
In Labour’s manifesto this year, Keir Starmer cannily sought to reassure any Brexiteers out there by ruling out a return to the…
Why are high-risk offenders set to be released early?
High-risk offenders could reportedly be released early from secure government-approved hostels. Shortly before before the election in July, the Ministry…
