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Mandy’s PR firm plunged into crisis
Oh Mandy. You came and you took and kept taking. For it is not just the Labour party wrestling with…
The Chagos deal has cemented Britain’s global decline
For a moment, it looked as if this tragic inevitability would not happen. But yesterday evening, Donald Trump gave the…
Labour MPs demand McSweeney’s head
It’s all gone a little bit Pete Tong for Sir Keir and the gang in No. 10. No acts of…
Why is America determined to pick a fight with Poland?
Until very recently it was hard to find more stalwart allies of America in Europe than the Poles. Poland was…
Alton Towers is right to ban ADHD queue-jumpers
That will teach people who seek a diagnosis of ADHD in the hope that it will bring them various advantages…
The Epstein scandal has morphed into a moral panic
That’s it, I’m out. I’m finished with the Epstein scandal. This morning I read about a man who is on…
Can Russia trust its old ‘little brother’ China?
The lovefest between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin continued this week. A video call on Wednesday saw the Russian president…
Trump must help Iranians bring down the Islamic regime
With diplomatic talks between the US and Iran set to take place in Muscat, Oman, today, the prospects for de-escalation…
Do MPs really want to save the Houses of Parliament?
Is there a building in Britain more important than the Palace of Westminster? Depending on who you listen to today,…
Is something rotten in Fulton County?
“I suspect that the FBI is going to find things missing.” As a member of the Georgia State Election Board,…
Is this the denouement of the 2020 election?
Where is it that the chickens go to roost? If you said “home,” you don’t quite get it. The correct…
Why Labour should stand by Starmer
Labour MPs want shot of Keir Starmer over the Peter Mandelson scandal. There is nothing new in that sentence until…
Netflix’s documentary poses some hard questions for Lucy Letby’s supporters
I often tell friends they should read up on the Lucy Letby case because it is not going away. People…
The Bank cuts growth prospects by a quarter
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just voted to hold interest rates at 3.75 per cent. While…
Watch out for Kemi Badenoch
The political focus is, quite rightly, now on Sir Keir Starmer. You hardly need me to point out how tenuous…
How Starmer will still keep us in the dark on the Epstein scandal
In a display of candour that was as refreshing as it was deeply alarming, the Prime Minister stood at the…
After Trump comes reform
America needs Donald Trump, badly. He is the bull in the china shop that every nation needs from time to…
Musk’s SpaceX is worth every penny
As the hype builds for the reported $1.5 trillion IPO of Elon Musk’s SpaceX later this year, there will be…
Epstein, the Clintons and the death of trust
Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.…
Reform unveil their Welsh leader
With 91 days to go until the Senedd elections, Reform are polling second – so it’s probably about time that…
Parliament’s modernisers have been foiled
Parliament is pointless without debate. It is there in the definition of the word itself: the Old French parlement derives…
Gordon Brown deserved better than Peter Mandelson’s treachery
Peter Mandelson may just have achieved the impossible. He has made me feel sorry for Gordon Brown. When I was…
The Mandelson scandal is so typically British
Peter Mandelson’s resignation from the House of Lords – and the Labour party – is all rather undignified. The Epstein…
The plight of Peter Attia
The Epstein files, while they still haven’t harpooned their biggest whales, continue to destroy reputations on the side. One of the most…
I always thought Allan Massie was immortal
As a late friend once said to me, the expected and the shocking are often the same thing. Allan Massie,…
