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Mick Lynch’s top five lowlights
Well, well, well. Mick Lynch, RMT’s infamous general secretary, has today announced he will be stepping down from the top…
Andy Burnham demands grooming gangs inquiry
Following the defeat of the Tory amendment in parliament last night, No. 10 might have hoped that calls for a…
What is the point of Rachel Reeves’s visit to Beijing?
The Chinese communist party claims to know a thing or two about humiliation – the ‘century of humiliation’ at the…
BBC presenter loses job after releasing anti-Starmer song
Back to the Beeb, which continues to get better at being the focus of news headlines rather than, er, producing…
Is Reform about to top the polls?
Is Reform about to become the most popular political party in Britain, overtaking both Labour and the Tories in national…
The curious predicament of Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Eleanor Roosevelt said that the role of the First Lady was not a job but rather a circumstance. For Sophie…
Watch: Scottish Tory leader mocks FM over Musk comments
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been the talk of London town this week and north of the border things are…
Watch: Steve Reed heckled by farmers
Who was the least popular man in Oxford this morning? Environment Secretary Steve Reed was certainly up there. The Labour…
Liz Truss’s legal threat against Keir Starmer is a mistake
In politics as in everyday life it is possible to be right at the same time as being terribly, terribly…
Where is Rachel Reeves?
Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in almost 30 years and sterling is sliding. The government’s economic strategy…
SNP government could boycott Twitter, FM warns
Elon Musk has kept the British media busy in recent days, after persistently posting criticism of UK politicians over the…
The astounding absence and silence of the LA mayor as her city burns
I’m not sure that there was ever a good time for Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass to be on a presidential diplomatic…
Beach turf wars are dividing Australia
At a time when Donald Trump threatens to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal, China is flexing its military and…
Why the French state fears Elon Musk
The French government on Wednesday declared war on X and on Elon Musk, directly threatening to ban the platform. Speaking…
The truth about the LA wildfires
It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars…
The Democrats are changing their tune on Trump
The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s…
The ‘MAGA’ South Koreans still supporting President Yoon
In extraordinary scenes more reminiscent of a South American coup than a supposedly stable first world democracy, fights broke out…
Reform and Tories accused of weaponising grooming gangs scandal
Unsurprisingly, the Conservative attempt to amend/kill off the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill failed tonight, with MPs voting 364 to…
Theresa May’s Brexit negotiator handed top Foreign Office job
A number of new Whitehall appointments have been made since the election, but there have been a couple of returning…
The issue of rape gangs will not go away
Finally, we heard it. At PMQs today, the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, dropped the euphemism ‘grooming’ and said ‘rape gangs’…
The ‘shocking tactics’ of Kemi Badenoch
Whitehall is being swept by moral outrage. Ministers, in full This Is Spinal Tap mode, have turned their pious horror up…
Tory attack ad gives Labour taste of its own medicine
What goes around, comes around. In producing their latest attack ad, it seems Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative crowd has taken inspiration…
Smoking bans: the fallback legacy for failed leaders
What is a legacy? Is it the sum of our actions? Is it the family and friends we leave behind?…
It’s no surprise so many British Jews are leaving for Israel
Some things may come as no surprise in theory but cause the heart to sink when they emerge as reality.…
Kemi Badenoch must ask better questions
Keir Starmer has not seemed in control of the grooming gangs story since it broke, but at Prime Minister’s Questions,…
