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Labour polls at record low
When it rains for the Labour lot, it pours. Today’s YouGov poll for the Times shows Nigel Farage’s Reform UK…
Kamala 2028 by default?
Kamala D. Harris, the career mediocrity who fell backward into a major party presidential nomination before ceding every swing state…
Hamas’s hostage remains deception is a new low
The grotesque return of a body part falsely presented as one of Israel’s remaining hostages marks a new low in…
A tariff alliance won’t stop Britain’s steel industry collapsing
The British steel industry has been staggering from one crisis to another for the whole of this year. Half of…
Should this teacher really have been struck off?
Alex Lloyd, a former teacher and head of sixth form in Bournemouth, has been drummed out of the profession for…
Farage’s parliamentary grooming gang inquiry won’t work
Nigel Farage’s call this week for parliament to seize control of the grooming-gangs inquiry sounds superficially compelling. The government’s statutory…
Why did Ontario antagonise Donald Trump?
The on-again, off-again relationship between Canada and the US is off-again, again. In the latest chapter of this perpetual saga,…
It’s time for King Charles to get tough with Andrew
One of the many horrors of the Prince Andrew scandal is the way that, ever since it worsened a now…
Rachel Reeves is doing her best to paralyse the housing market
We are still four weeks away from the Budget and already we have had virtually every tax rise floated before…
Is the rise of Reform unstoppable?
The rise of Reform UK has at times seemed to defy gravity. From winning four million votes at the general…
Labour is living in a fantasy Britain
What imaginary country does Labour’s new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, live in? When Powell was crowned as the official thorn-in-the-side…
Only honesty can kill the rise of Germany’s AfD
As Germany braces for economic hardship and the mounting danger of confrontation with Russia, its leaders appear preoccupied with the…
Revealed: how PM Farage wants to govern
Six weeks after his defection from the Tories, Danny Kruger will tomorrow set out his thinking on how a Reform…
Calamity Lammy had no answers on the migrant sex offender debacle
Hadush Kebatu’s Magical Mystery Tour of North London was the subject of this afternoon’s debate in the Commons. In a…
Has there been a cover-up of London grooming gangs?
When the grooming gang crisis came under renewed scrutiny at the beginning of this year, the former Tory mayoral candidate…
AOC and Hochul are crazy for Mamdani
New York’s Kathy Hochul isn’t a good governor. But, like a particularly empathetic house pet, she’s finely attuned to any…
Health tourism is good for Britain
Once, foreign nationals came to Britain to freeload on the NHS. Today, UK residents visit other countries for medical treatment.…
How the state tried to ‘safeguard’ Axel Rudakubana
The Southport inquiry into the murderous frenzy of Axel Rudakubana has broken for half term. Officials who have been already…
Housing Secretary refuses to rule out mansion tax
There’s less than a month until Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveils her autumn budget and speculation is abounding about what taxes…
Katie Lam’s trans musical raises eyebrows
This month, a Sunday Times headline dubbed the 34-year-old MP for Weald of Kent, Katie Lam, the ‘Tories’ new hope’.…
Since when did we ‘install’ an Archbishop of Canterbury?
Just before graffiti-gate in Canterbury Cathedral kicked off a few weeks ago, it hosted the announcement of the 106th Archbishop of…
Milei’s medicine is working. Labour should take note
Barely a month ago, the received wisdom was that the Javier Milei experiment in Argentina had effectively collapsed. The self-styled…
Rachel Reeves should focus on cutting welfare
Rachel Reeves is reportedly considering a 2p increase in income tax, taking the basic rate from 20 to 22 per…
Javier Milei wins on chainsaw-slashing reforms
Javier Milei, Argentina’s self styled “anarcho-capitalist” President, defied pessimistic poll predictions on Sunday to win in the midterm elections and save…
George Monbiot’s constitution is anti-democratic
Recent years have not been kind to the politics of George Monbiot. The journalist’s column records growing dismay at the…
