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How many parliamentary police are failing fitness tests?
They’re the redoubtable men and women who keep our legislature safe. But is the thin blue line around the Commons…
The Terminally Ill bill deserves to die
They tried, they really did. Dignity in Dying, the lineal descendent of the 1930s Euthanasia Society and therefore great-great-niece of…
The SNP must stop playing politics with the rulebook
There are 18 months until the 2026 Holyrood election and already talk is ramping up about who will stand. There…
How will progressives explain Amsterdam’s latest anti-semitic violence?
Since the scenes of Jews being hunted, beaten and kicked as they lay on the ground pleading for mercy in…
Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has this afternoon announced he will resign from the role after days of pressure…
MPs should take their time over the assisted dying bill
You don’t need to have a strong opinion either way on assisted dying to be concerned about the latest attempt…
Why Justin Welby had to resign
‘The scale and severity of the practice was horrific. Five of the 13 I have seen were in it only…
Surely no MP can vote for this assisted dying bill
There’s a beguiling simplicity to the idea behind Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, published yesterday. If…
Trump’s very catholic cabinet
Donald Trump’s second term administration is taking shape, and thus far it’s turned out to be impressively Catholic in its…
Justin Welby quits as Archbishop of Canterbury
In the past few minutes, Justin Welby has announced he is resigning as Archbishop of Canterbury over his handling of…
Will the NHS’s £22bn cash boost disappear into the abyss?
What will happen to the additional £22 billion allotted to the NHS in Labour’s first Budget? Will it transform the…
The realignment election
We’re sitting at the airport bar in Lansing, Michigan when we notice a MAGA hat next to the cash register.…
What’s gone wrong at Winchester Cathedral?
The Dean of Winchester, the Very Revd Catherine Ogle, has announced that she will be retiring on 1 May 2025.…
Sue Gray rejects Starmer’s non-job
Goodbye Sue Gray. A mere 32 days after taking a ‘short break’ from No. 10, Keir Starmer’s ex-chief of staff…
Watch: Ex-Blair aide takes a pop at Britain’s farmers
Farmers across the country have been in uproar since Rachel Reeves’s Budget. Just weeks ago the Chancellor announced that agricultural…
Keir Starmer isn’t being honest about his COP carbon pledge
‘It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his…
Tories overtake Labour in first poll since Badenoch victory
When it rains, it pours for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot. The polls have gone downhill since Starmer’s army got…
The great flaw in Labour’s assisted dying bill
Believe it or not, the most compelling argument against assisted dying today came from Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem…
Can Justin Welby cling on?
MPs are getting involved in the row over Justin Welby’s position as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Conservative MP Nick Timothy…
Coutinho blasts Miliband’s energy claims as ‘total nonsense’
While Sir Keir Starmer faces the world’s media today at Cop29 in Baku, his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is on…
Germany has a bleak future thanks to Olaf Scholz
The demise of chancellor Olaf Scholz’s lacklustre coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and the liberal Free Democrats is unsurprising. The…
Has Trump already derailed Reeves’s first Budget?
When Rachel Reeves went out to sell her £40bn tax-raising budget on the airwaves, she offered a message of reassurance:…
Ursula von der Leyen is Europe’s Kamala Harris
European farmers have called for a day of protest in Brussels on Wednesday, 48 hours before the EU is expected…
There are now seven million migrant workers in the UK
For the first time ever there are seven million migrant workers in Britain’s job market. Figures released by the ONS…
How strong are the safeguards in the assisted dying bill?
After a long wait, Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying legislation – the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – was published overnight, ahead of…
