World
Labour’s term-time holiday crackdown won’t work
In the bestselling book Freakonomics, the authors Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt outline an experiment which involved fining parents…
Starmer could regret trying to woo trade unions
The last two and a half years have seen a dramatic revival in trade union militancy, with working days lost…
Night czar’s City Hall no-show
Over to the Mayor of London and his minions. While the Prime Minister has been busy giving pay rises to…
Labour’s plan to abolish hereditary peers is pointless
Labour’s House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill to the Commons – which was presented today and will have its first…
Tories call for watchdog inquiry into Labour cronyism row
Back to Whitehall, where the row over civil service appointments continues to gather pace. It transpires that the Conservatives have…
Michel Barnier is France’s new PM. It’s hard to think of a worse job
Michel Barnier is the new prime minister of France. Best known in Britain as the EU’s chief negotiator during the…
Watch: Labour blasted over ‘shoddy’ Lords reforms
To the Lords, where this afternoon an urgent question was granted on the subject of hereditary peers. It follows today’s…
Labour’s early prison release scheme can’t afford to fail
Are you ready for SDS40? You might need to be if you’re unlucky enough to live in a high crime…
There’s nothing wrong with a Japanese flamenco dancer
Japanese dancer Junko Hagiwara has become the first non-Spaniard to win one of Spain’s most prestigious flamenco competitions. Yet when…
Why France blames Britain for the Channel migrant crisis
Only hours after twelve migrants drowned attempting to reach England from France another group set out. This time they were…
Will Angela Rayner really water down the right-to-buy scheme?
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner is said to be planning on watering down the right-to-buy scheme which enables council tenants to…
Kamala Harris and the audacity of desperation
Barack Obama wrote The Audacity of Hope. The Kamala Harris story of 2024 could be called The Audacity of Desperation. Her brief…
The real reason Keir Starmer keeps forgetting he’s prime minister
When Sir Keir Starmer faced off against Rishi Sunak at the despatch box today, in the first Prime Minister’s Questions…
Nothing gives Keir Starmer joy like banning things
Power hasn’t altered Sir Keir Starmer. His frosty and unamused demeanour remains. No hint of warmth or joy has penetrated…
The two winners from the first Tory leadership round
Priti Patel is out of the race to be the next Tory leader. In the first knockout round of the…
The vital lesson that must be learnt from the Grenfell inquiry
Today’s long-awaited publication of the final report of the Grenfell Tower inquiry provides a forensic account of the ‘root causes’…
SNP health secretary slammed over Oasis ticket fiasco
To Scotland, where the SNP’s newest health secretary has found himself in a rather large, Oasis-sized mess. At the weekend,…
Keir Starmer is acting like he’s still in opposition
Keir Starmer made a couple of verbal slips at Prime Minister’s Questions. Both were quite telling. The first was that…
Why is Javier Milei spending more on Argentina’s army?
Bitter austerity is biting in Argentina as the new president enacts the brutal cuts he promised in a bid to…
Why London must get back to work
The commute is often unreliable, expensive and crowded. It is easy enough to understand why so many of London’s 5…
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. Questions like: what if Andrew Tate’s camgirl harem is actually the height of masculinity?…
The ‘path to disaster’ that led to Grenfell
There are very few people who emerge from the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report with much credit today. Certainly very few…
Macron’s search for a prime minster is a complete farce
Who will be the next prime minister of France? Almost two months after the centre lost its majority in the National…
Watch: Starmer defers to ‘prime minister’ Sunak at PMQs
They say old habits die hard, and Sir Keir Starmer is finding that out for himself today. It’s the first…
The US is turning the screws on Nicolas Maduro
Actions often speak louder than words. In the case of the United States seizing Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s multi-million dollar…
