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The cult of Paddington has gone too far

5 November 2024 4:00 pm

‘Kindness is like marmalade – a little goes a long way,’ Paddington Bear tweeted recently. But it isn’t only imaginary…

Joe Rogan endorses Trump after eleventh-hour Elon Musk interview

5 November 2024 3:28 pm

Donald Trump’s podcast bonanza just paid off with the biggest win possible: a formal endorsement from Joe Rogan, whose massive…

Laura Trott’s Commons debut gives a clue to Kemi’s tactics

5 November 2024 6:01 am

What difference has Kemi Badenoch’s victory made to the way the party talks about education? Badenoch doesn’t want to make…

Meet the MAGA porn stars

5 November 2024 5:31 am

I’ve worked in the porn industry for nearly two decades — through the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. Yet this…

Raising university tuition fees will only delay the inevitable

5 November 2024 5:01 am

Universities in the UK desperately needed Bridget Phillipson’s announcement this afternoon of a rise in tuition fees. The Education Secretary…

Trump is Team MAGA’s last chance

5 November 2024 4:15 am

Elon Musk has often commented that “if Trump is NOT elected, this will be the last election.” He often adds that, “far…

Could ADHD bankrupt English councils?

5 November 2024 4:13 am

Every time a chancellor sits down after delivering their budget, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) releases their ‘economic and…

No matter who wins, you lose

5 November 2024 4:07 am

For some of us, watching newly minted Republican tech bros giddy at the thought of a Trump win fills us…

Scots revealed to be biggest Trump fans in western Europe

5 November 2024 4:00 am

In a rather surprising development, it transpires that Scottish people are Donald Trump’s biggest fans in Europe. A Norstat poll…

Why does ITV hate Trump?

5 November 2024 3:57 am

It would be consoling to think that the BBC, alone among our supposedly unpartisan TV news providers, is guilty of…

Should GPs make a profit?

5 November 2024 3:46 am

The Budget has started a fight between the government and GPs. As is often the case with doctors, that fight…

Labour’s tuition fee U-turn

5 November 2024 2:14 am

Dear oh dear. It now transpires that Starmer’s army will increase university fees in line with inflation from September next…

How Germany became the sick man of Europe

5 November 2024 1:07 am

Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser – trust is good, control is better – is a popular German saying. It’s…

A fragile democracy has bloomed in Botswana

5 November 2024 12:53 am

There’s been a momentous election in Africa, Botswana to be exact. Not heard about it? Don’t be surprised. The British…

Guardian removes Israeli whisky reference

5 November 2024 12:24 am

Well, well, well. It seems that the Guardian, the self-proclaimed bastion of ‘clarity and imagination’, has been acting rather censoriously…

Heads will roll after Spain’s flooding catastrophe

4 November 2024 10:43 pm

Spain’s King and Queen were pelted with mud yesterday when they visited Paiporta, epicentre of the flood disaster zone in…

Starmer’s plan to stop the boats is a comical gimmick

4 November 2024 10:35 pm

The shiny new Downing Street operation that has come into being since the departure of Sue Gray has decreed that…

James Dyson isn’t helping farmers

4 November 2024 10:13 pm

If I were president of the National Farmers’ Union I know what my first task would be today: ring up…

Watch: Home Secretary flounders over small boats

4 November 2024 10:08 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot are desperate to get the press and public talking about anything but the Budget this…

Can Starmer stop the small boats?

4 November 2024 7:10 pm

It’s small boats week in government. Following last Wednesday’s Budget, No. 10 is turning its attention to the ceaseless flow…

Is Kemi Badenoch the new Mrs Thatcher?

4 November 2024 6:16 pm

Prior to her election as Conservative Leader at the weekend, Kemi Badenoch was, on numerous occasions, compared to Margaret Thatcher.…

Do we care that the King is rich?

4 November 2024 5:58 pm

For the first time, the true extent of the property held by the King and the Prince of Wales’s private…

Southport suspect: A timeline of what was said and when 

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Three months after the Southport attack in July, suspect Axel Rudakubana was this week charged with two new fresh offences.…

Michal Caine turns on Labour’s taxes

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Taxes, thousands of ’em! In her bid to alienate the bulk of the British electorate, it seems that Rachel Reeves…

Kemi Badenoch isn’t the ‘black face’ of ‘white supremacy’

4 November 2024 5:21 pm

We need to talk about Dawn Butler. Following the election of the first ever black leader of a major party…