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Why is no one talking about femcels?
Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want…
Robert Jenrick is a real conservative
Robert Jenrick’s victory over the Sentencing Council — James Heale is correct to call it that — is, more importantly,…
I am deeply impressed by Ayoub Khan
Kemi Badenoch is doing all right at PMQs. The Tory leader is effective in the build-up but her finishing is…
Arron Banks battles Bristol Council for ‘Banksy’ slogan
It’s all kicking off in Bristol. On Friday, Reform UK announced that the multimillionaire Arron Banks was going to be…
What really scares people about Adolescence
Two books I read in my teens made me want to be a writer. One, Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, appeared when…
Starmer and Badenoch played a childish blame game at PMQs
Keir Starmer had a special point to make at the very outset of Prime Minister’s Questions about the threat of…
Patrick Harvie’s top five lowlights
Patrick Harvie has today announced – and not a moment too soon – that he will step down as co-leader…
Labour and the Tories are both to blame for two-tier justice
If ever there were a week for me to commit a crime, this was it. The Sentencing Council – which…
Justin Welby has cemented his reputation – for having a tin ear
This is an excerpt from the latest episode of the Holy Smoke podcast with Damian Thompson, which you can find…
Kemi Badenoch must not drop net zero
Giorgia Meloni had it right. ‘There is nothing,’ the Italian prime minister said in 2022, ‘more right-wing than ecology. The…
Sadiq Khan’s Eid message is a disgrace
London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan published a video online earlier this week to mark the Muslim festival of Eid. Released…
Why Democrats can spin two Florida losses as good news
It’s been a minute since Democrats have heard any good news coming out of Florida, a one-time swing state where…
Labour’s welfare crackdown is a sham
You can already sense Rachel Reeves’s spin machine whirring into action. It was Donald Trump wot ruined my careful book-keeping,…
Starmer claims Adolescence is a documentary – again
Does Prime Minister Keir Starmer understand the difference between fact and fiction? Mr S isn’t so sure – after the…
Support for Labour drops to new poll low
Support for Labour has dipped to a new low in more bad news for the reds. Data released today reveals…
Israel is gambling that military action can end the war in Gaza
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) is to launch a large-scale expansion of its military operations to seize and occupy more…
Why Israel is ramping up its war on terror
The war in Gaza has entered a more consequential and unforgiving phase. Early this morning, Palestinian sources reported that Israeli…
Marine Le Pen is in a race against the clock
Marine Le Pen is fighting back, launching an all-out counterattack against a Paris court’s decision to suspend her from politics.…
Trump is starting to face tariff blowback
Liberation Day? Pshaw. President Trump may be gloating about imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s allies and adversaries abroad, but he…
We’re still suffering from social long Covid
It’s not unusual, after running a focus group, for a particular comment to stay with you for days. Ordinary people…
Are Western companies heading back to Russia?
Ever since Donald Trump’s now-infamous phone conversation with Vladimir Putin last month, Russia has been buzzing with speculation that Western…
Trump’s tariff plan has been tried before. It failed
Donald Trump thinks ‘tariff’ is the ‘most beautiful word in the dictionary’. Today is ‘Liberation Day’, and the US president…
Trump’s tariffs could damage the dollar
Donald Trump says his tariffs are about liberation. But his aggressive turn toward protectionism may signal the beginning of a…
Let them eat woke
If you have ever been desperate and adrift, you understand the Democratic Party’s frustration. One day, James Carville tells his…
What should Netflix do its next drama on?
How do you achieve anything in British politics? It’s simple: turn your cause into a TV drama. First, it was…
