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Bribing Scots to stay in the UK won’t work forever
A country is not a fiscal transfer. It can be many things – a loose federation of diverging cultures, a…
Unite members sit out leadership vote
A meagre 10 per cent of Unite members bothered to vote in the union’s election for general secretary. Arch-lefty Sharon…
Andy Burnham is already in a migration muddle
In the run-up to his coup against Sir Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham was sold to wavering Labour MPs as the…
Francesca Hong’s defeat won’t stop the Democratic Socialists
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don’t want to cancel Thanksgiving – on balance, at least.…
Do we really all have to ‘play our part’ housing asylum seekers?
Andy Burnham wants ‘all parts of the country…to play their part’. Not because we’re at war, or another pandemic is…
The myth of Britain’s functioning probation service
The crisis in the criminal justice system will be the defining domestic policy issue of Andy Burnham’s government. The warning…
Is this the best Labour can do?
Will Andy Burnham call an autumn general election and take advantage of his prime ministerial honeymoon, or will he go…
In defence of betting shops
Unlike a few others, I was prepared to give Andy Burnham the benefit of the doubt – and hold back on…
Can Britain be trusted to build Australia’s submarines?
After being toppled by his own MPs in 2018, former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull vowed he would not hang…
Andy Burnham’s laughably unserious summer
What a strange summer this has turned out to be: no rain and no politics. As we enter what the…
DEI must die to prevent another Jason Arday scandal
The Jason Arday scandal might seem extraordinary to many. It is less surprising for those of us in academia who…
Burnham: I’ll ‘eradicate’ illegal dinghy crossings
Andy Burnham today insisted he wants to ‘eradicate’ illegal dinghy crossings – but admitted he probably won’t be able to…
Is Iran softening on making women wear the veil?
The Islamic Republic of Iran has made many concessions in its long decline. Until now, it stood firm on one…
Is Donald Trump becoming the new Jimmy Carter?
One day President Trump wants to dial down hostilities with Iran. “We’re low-keying” the conflict, he said Sunday. A day…
What is the point of the new ‘Muslim NATO?’
Pakistan’s defense minister, Khawaja Asif, rather excitedly proclaimed a new defense agreement – the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement – between…
The welcome crackdown on neon signs and vape shops
One of the things that all visitors to London notice is the contrast between Oxford Street and Regent Street. Oxford…
Tucker, Hunter and the new center
“We’re from the same place… I went to school with your high-school girlfriend,” Tucker Carlson reminds Hunter Biden at the…
Rayner: Boat migrants are often ‘women and children’
“I feel absolutely appalled these criminal gangs will load a boat up to dangerous levels. Housing Secretary Angela Rayner reacts…
The prisons crisis needs bold solutions like the El Salvador plan
Two days is a very long time in British politics. On Saturday it was being reported that Andy Burnham might…
Miatta Fahnbulleh and the society of socialist hypocrisy
‘The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons,’ was Ralph Waldo Emerson’s immortal line to…
The Colombia earthquake is a big test for its new president
When Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s president on August 7, he had a long list of…
Greta and Kneecap are a match made in heaven
Is there anything sadder than a Kneecap fan? Privileged kids in tricolour balaclavas leaping around like demented wombats. Bourgeois radicals…
Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague
After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University. We can…
Jason Arday and the terrible truth about students
When I was a young punk, my favourite badge (we loved badges!) was a big white one which a reader…
What has happened to Ricky Gervais?
A defiant Ricky Gervais has insisted that he’s ‘never been so happy’ after his Netflix series, Alley Cats, reached the number…
