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Should we treat the rioters like football hooligans?
Images of thugs causing mayhem on Britain’s streets has brought back painful memories of the football hooligans of the 1970s and…
The trouble with Ireland’s balaclava ban
Balaclavas were once the preserve of bank robbers and members of the IRA, but this week they were worn by…
Biden declares war on… plastic
Hurricane Debby is barreling through Florida, America’s economy is crashing, US troops were injured in Iraq Monday and conflict in…
The joy of watching terrible athletes compete at the Olympics
When I was sixteen, my dad took me along to a conference he attended in Calgary just days after the…
No one wants to lead these riots
Joe/Jeff Marsh wants to make it clear that he did not, like people keep saying, start the riots in Southport.…
Watch: Ex-Met police chief blasts Starmer over riots
Finally. Someone who ran the Metropolitan Police that will actually speak to the media. Former Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson…
Does Tim Walz really moderate the Kamala Harris ticket?
Since Kamala Harris moved to the top of the Democratic ticket, it’s been assumed she would use her boss Joe…
Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz as running mate
US vice president Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Walz, a Midwestern Democrat…
Wall Street must brace itself for more shocks
The Chancellor has kicked off her investment tour under rather difficult circumstances. While Rachel Reeves spends the next three days…
Elon Musk slams Starmer over Facebook hate charge
The first person in the UK to be charged with stirring up racial hatred on Facebook during the riots is…
Don’t be fooled by Tim Walz’s blandness
OK, it’s August 6, the anniversary of the detonation of Little Boy over the city of Hiroshima in 1945. That marked…
Tory leadership hopefuls read Farage the riot act
As the country saw more violent riots last night, Tory leadership hopefuls have taken to the airwaves to condemn, er,…
Scotland’s poorest students are being failed by the SNP
Scotland’s exam results day has been something of a disaster this year. An already stressful time for anxious pupils has…
Thames Water isn’t solely to blame for the South’s dirty rivers
Few will, or should, feel sympathy for Thames Water being fined 9 per cent of its annual turnover for fouling…
Japan’s volatile stock market is causing panic
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index registered its biggest ever daily fall on Monday, plummeting by over 12 per cent and continuing…
Wales has a new First Minister. Her honeymoon won’t last long
Eluned Morgan has this morning been voted in as the new Welsh First Minister – the first woman ever to…
Riot police are often scared for their lives
To the rioters, it doesn’t matter that the suspect in the murder of three girls at a holiday dance camp…
John Swinney faces yet another exam result blunder
Dear oh dear. Scotland’s secondary school results are in – and it’s not looking good for John Swinney’s SNP government.…
Vigilante justice won’t stop the riots
There were ugly scenes in Birmingham last night after hundreds of men, some wearing masks, gathered in the Alum Rock…
Why fears of US recession are justified
The bubble in artificial intelligence stocks has started to pop, two decades of easy money in Japan have finally started…
Does Wes Streeting know what he’s doing?
Wes Streeting bounds onto the stage for a conversation with Matthew Stadlen (deputising for Iain Dale) at the Edinburgh festival.…
Jess Phillips accused of ‘making excuses’ for masked mob
Another day, another report of violent disorder. Protests broke out in Labour MP Jess Phillips’ Birmingham constituency on Monday night.…
The courts will struggle to bring the rioters to justice
Violent conflict, not traditionally a feature of life in Britain, arrived with brutal force this weekend. Angry mobs targeted mosques…
Should civil servants be allowed to wear inappropriate clothes to work?
Does His Majesty’s Government have a policy on civil servants wearing fetish clothing in the workplace? It’s not the sort…
Mark Rowley’s mic grab sets a dreadful example to police officers
A Sky News reporter having his microphone grabbed and dropped to the ground might seem like a trifling story right…
