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Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform
Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the former Conservative MP for Dudley North, Marco Longhi, has defected…
Spare us from ‘amber’ weather warnings
With quiet, sinister inevitability, the health and safety edifice has been marching through the festive season, capturing new terrain. Arguably…
Isis will not die
The Isis caliphate in Syria and Iraq was defeated at a cost of billions of dollars and the loss of…
The fatal flaw in Labour’s vote reform plans
Keir Starmer’s government won’t be the first to engage in gerrymandering when it seeks to lower the voting age from…
Duffield: Anybody would be a better leader than Starmer
Another day, another Labour drama. Now it’s Independent MP Rosie Duffield making waves after giving a rather revealing interview to…
Kemi Badenoch is right to bide her time
Kemi Badenoch has only been Conservative leader for two months. The next general election is likely to be held in…
Farage to blast Badenoch’s ‘crazy conspiracy theories’ about Reform
You might have forgotten about Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch’s Twixmas Twitter spat, but the Reform UK leader certainly hasn’t.…
Meghan makes her Netflix return
To the Montecito monarchs who, no matter how much they protest about the press, just can’t seem to stay away…
Mark Zuckerberg could regret Nick Clegg’s Meta departure
When Donald Trump won the US election, the writing was on the wall for Nick Clegg at Meta. Now, just…
What’s the point of a social care review?
Whack! That’s the sound of social care reform once again being hit into the long grass. Thud! Another hit sends…
The myth of the God-shaped hole
In a recent interview, I imprudently said I was a “cultural Christian”, and I haven’t heard the end of it.…
Bridget Phillipson wants no alternatives to expose her education mistakes
Wales has long been an embarrassment for any aspiring Labour education secretary. While the Conservative government’s school reforms shot England…
Could Emmanuel Macron be Elon Musk’s next target?
Days before Christmas, the BBC published an article on its website headlined ‘Elon Musk’s curious fixation with Britain’. The broadcaster…
Nick Clegg gets unfriended by Facebook
Happy new year Nick Clegg. The onetime Deputy Prime Minister has spent much of the past decade collecting oodles of…
Speaker’s Office doubles under Hoyle
When John Bercow finally left the Speakership at the end of 2019, MPs breathed a sigh of relief. At last,…
Labour loses 20 councillors in Starmer protest
All is not well in Labourland. Now it transpires that 20 councillors have quit Sir Keir Starmer’s party in a…
Ed Miliband doesn’t understand how energy pricing works
Are we about to find out the full foolishness of Ed Miliband’s policy of blocking licences for new oil and…
Small boat crossings up by a quarter on previous year
Labour’s crackdown on people smugglers comes as New Year’s Day Home Office figures show the number of small boats crossing…
Starmer’s queue-cutting blunder shows he isn’t very good at politics
Who would want to be Prime Minister, when even an innocent holiday can lead to a PR disaster? Keir Starmer…
Treasury under fire over private school VAT ads
New year, same problems. Already Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government is in the firing line again – this time facing…
Will terrorists target Donald Trump’s inauguration day?
Donald Trump is an unconventional politician and he responds to terror attacks unconventionally. When bad things happen, he often goes…
Labour rejects calls for Oldham grooming gang inquiry
State failure was a consistent theme of British politics in 2024. So as the new year begins, attention has turned…
Biden confirms New Orleans attacker ‘inspired by Isis’
US president Joe Biden has confirmed that a terrorist who killed 15 people during the New Year’s Day attack in…
Brace yourselves for Meghan Markle’s comeback
As many of us lurched blearily into 2025, desperately trying to remember how, exactly, we’d managed to cause offence to…
Elon Musk calls for Jess Phillips to be jailed
Once Jess Phillips was the queen of Twitter, harrying and hounding the Tories at every chance. But these days it’s…
