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Inside Arizona’s battle for school choice
Arizona families won big this week. The teachers union and Save Our Schools fell short (again) in their latest attempt to roll back the universal Empowerment…
What Cambridge should have learned from the Milli Vanilli fiasco
With hindsight, Milli Vanilli’s 1989 worldwide smash hit ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ should have been called ‘Actually, It Isn’t…
Watch: Bastani grovels over Arday comments
‘Professionally I erred, but ethically I really screwed up.’ Novara Media co-founder Aaron Bastani has apologised for comments he made…
The remarkable longevity of Nigel Farage
Do political faces have a ‘use by’ date? Is there a point beyond which even the mugs of politicians that…
Should Prevent be scrapped?
The warning from the Children’s Commissioner that the Prevent programme can’t help ‘a cohort of children intoxicated by extremism’ might…
The truth about Net Zero
When I was made Energy Secretary in 2023, I asked civil servants what I thought was a simple question: prove…
Inflation hits Burnham’s cost of living pledge
This week, Andy Burnham, in an article about how much he loves buses, declared that he will lead a ‘cost…
Will the BBC apologise for its role in the Jason Arday story?
The BBC’s coverage of the Jason Arday scandal is something of a scandal itself. The corporation spent years uncritically promoting…
What happened to Will Self?
It is usually taken as a given, for better or worse, that the Grand Old Men of English letters tend…
Why the ‘Be Kind’ brigade are so horrible
The Green Party came to prominence earlier this year by forever promising ‘hope not hate’. Indeed, that dreamy yearning played…
Firing a senior banker won’t save Putin’s faltering war economy
In a sign of the unease about Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine that exists behind closed doors in Moscow,…
The media didn’t kill Jason Arday
What sounds more like a mob to you? Reporters asking questions about a professor’s résumé and backstory? Or swarms of…
Hamas is playing for time in Gaza
The current troubled and glacial diplomatic process between Israel, the US, its ‘Board of Peace’ and the de facto Hamas…
Reform suspend Tim Montgomerie
It has been announced this morning that Tim Montgomerie has been suspended as a member of Reform. It came after…
Is Reform cracking up?
There is something sulphurous about Zia Yusuf. The deep-set, unblinking eyes; the ardent belief in his own mission; the position…
The Green plot for a free speech crackdown
As night follows day, left-wing politicians are seizing on the tragic death of Jason Arday to demand sweeping curbs on…
Burnham: I’m ‘not embarrassed’ after being duped
“There was a minimal exchange. Nothing of consequence.” Andy Burnham says he is “not embarrassed” over texting impersonator pretending to…
Why is Rayner helping travellers build more sites?
Here it is, finally: Labour’s ‘growth’ strategy. And what does it consist of? Reform of planning laws to make it…
Will Britain back down on the digital services tax?
The Trump White House has been complaining about Britain’s digital services tax for months. But now it is ramping up…
Does Brazil want another Bolsonaro?
Last month, two State Department officials were set to make what they called a routine visit to Brazil, ahead of…
Was Rachel Reeves really defamed by dodgy data?
For almost two decades the productivity puzzle – the precipitous and ongoing drop in the growth of value that workers…
Burnham’s jobs apocalypse
Is the Burnham bounce about to fizzle out? This morning has seen the first shaky set of economic figures since…
Are we heading for a great train catastrophe?
It’s been a bumpy ride for the railways in the past few weeks – quite literally for the passengers on…
Universities must urgently crack down on AI exam cheating
Is a university degree still worth the paper it is written on? That rather depends on whether a student is…
Why is this Cambridge-linked project promoting an Islamic curriculum?
An academic project hosted by Cambridge University promotes an “Islamic curriculum” which tells 12-year-olds that Hamas is an “excuse that Israel uses…
