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Can Israelis stomach another war?
It was late in 1997 when I got to a small military base on the border between Israel and Lebanon.…
We don’t need Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’
It is not hard to imagine what will be in Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’. There will be lots of ‘green…
It’s no surprise nurses want a bigger pay rise
Just as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves was talking in her conference speech about the importance of resolving public sector strikes,…
Wes Streeting’s surprising praise for Reform
After the general election this year, Nigel Farage argued that he was now the leader of the opposition, after his…
The tragic cost of Japan’s floods
Yet another natural disaster has struck in Japan as floods and landslides in the Noto peninsula, precipitated by ‘unprecedented’ rainfall,…
Who was the real audience for Rachel Reeves’s speech?
Rachel Reeves had to deal with unexpected turbulence in her party conference speech, after anti-Israel protesters interrupted her. But that…
Starmer’s biographer slams ‘office politics’ of freebie fiasco
It’s day two of Labour conference and Sir Keir Starmer’s freebie fiasco still hasn’t gone away. Over a week since…
Watch: Reeves’ heckled by Gaza activist
It’s Rachel Reeves’ big day at conference today. After 80 days of doom and gloom, the Starmer army have concluded…
Is Michel Barnier’s cabinet really conservative?
Emmanuel Macron’s new government marks, in the words of the BBC, ‘a decisive shift to the right’. That is also…
Is there really a ‘butterfly emergency’?
Anyone else getting fed up with ‘emergencies’? There was a time when that word meant something, but not any longer…
Starmer sends Glittergate warning
To Liverpool, where Sir Keir Starmer is enjoying his first Labour conference in government, against the backdrop of rather stormy…
Why has Rachel Reeves suddenly become cheery?
Can Rachel Reeves inject some optimism into the debate around Britain’s economy? That seems to be her ambition today, as…
Will AfD voters ever return to the mainstream?
For the second time in three weeks, the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has received a significant percentage of the…
Olaf Scholz has won a hollow victory in Brandenburg’s state elections
In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this…
Why are you proud to be British?
Introducing a tub-thumping op-ed in the Mail yesterday, Robert Jenrick quoted Orwell: ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose…
Naivety won’t solve Britain’s migrant crisis
Events of the last week have demonstrated the fierce determination of some migrants to reach their European destination of choice. Last Sunday, hundreds…
Were the wild Sixties really wild?
I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free…
Labour minister: we could be in power for 25 years
Party conferences are never short of hyperbole. Whether it’s on the conference floor or the late night bar, impromptu speeches…
Sue Gray’s Labour conference no-show
As well as being paid more than the Prime Minister, it seems Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is getting…
Why JD Vance ‘created’ the pet-eating immigrants
Last week, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance appeared on CNN’s State of the Union where he was interviewed by Dana Bash. During…
Mick Lynch mocks Labour’s outfit freebies
Poor Keir Starmer. One of the first things he did after becoming prime minister was to stuff the unions’ mouths…
Angela Rayner: ‘I don’t believe I broke any rules… in fact I think I was overly transparent’
Angela Rayner: ‘I don’t believe I broke any rules… in fact I think I was overly transparent’ The Labour conference…
Richard Burgon fails to draw a crowd at Labour conference
Oh for the days of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’. It only seems like yesterday that the likes of John McDonnell and…
Starmer approval rating hits record low
Sir Keir Starmer is having a tough time of it, what with his ongoing freebie fiasco, the cronyism row and…
Keir Starmer’s problems are of his own making
That nobody in Keir Starmer’s inner circle worked out that trashing his personal reputation for a hundred grand’s worth of…
