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Gordon Brown deserved better than Peter Mandelson’s treachery
Peter Mandelson may just have achieved the impossible. He has made me feel sorry for Gordon Brown. When I was…
The Mandelson scandal is so typically British
Peter Mandelson’s resignation from the House of Lords – and the Labour party – is all rather undignified. The Epstein…
The plight of Peter Attia
The Epstein files, while they still haven’t harpooned their biggest whales, continue to destroy reputations on the side. One of the most…
I always thought Allan Massie was immortal
As a late friend once said to me, the expected and the shocking are often the same thing. Allan Massie,…
Labour’s invertebrates are deserting Keir Starmer
It was always going to be a good one wasn’t it? There was almost a sense of guilt watching today’s…
Keir Starmer is losing his own MPs over Mandelson
There is a sulphurous mood in the House of Commons today. Peter Mandelson hangs over Westminster, amid ongoing revelations about…
The world after New START
When the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) expires tomorrow, the United States and Russia will, for the first…
Starmer squirms over Phil Shiner links
It’s Wednesday so that means another ritual humiliation for Keir Starmer at PMQs. As his government limps towards the May…
The question Starmer didn’t want to answer about Peter Mandelson
Prime Minister’s Questions today highlighted Keir Starmer’s weakness, and not just when it comes to Peter Mandelson. The Prime Minister…
Peter Mandelson and the phoney moral superiority of Labour
When Keir Starmer’s Labour was flung into power by the implosion of the Conservatives, the chattering classes were gripped by…
‘Supermax’-style prisons for terrorists are overdue
David Lammy had a good outing yesterday – they are as rare as hen’s teeth when you’re leading the Ministry…
Will Trump bring about World War Three?
One of the enduring myths about Donald Trump is that he is an isolationist: a president bent on dismantling alliances…
The remarkable courage of 13-year-old Austin Appelbee
Australia has been global news for all the wrong reasons. So it was a relief to hear a story of…
France has a nasty case of Trump Derangement Syndrome
The French IT giant Capgemini has put its US subsidiary on sale because of its association with the work of…
Why Macron has declared war on X
Investigators from the Paris prosecutor’s cyber-crime unit raided the offices of X in the French capital on Tuesday in what…
Peter Mandelson betrayed his country
In 2008, Maggie Darling, wife of the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, invited journalists to a briefing at 11 Downing…
Why Andrew had to be booted from Royal Lodge
The news that the disgraced former Duke of York has been turfed out of his home of Royal Lodge in…
Our prisons are getting worse under Labour
Ever since Labour was elected, every time there has been another disaster in our jails, or another set of terrible…
How did Starmer misjudge Mandelson so badly?
If there is anything less edifying than the newly released emails implicating Lord Mandelson in some very bad behaviour, it…
Britain’s shameful tolerance for terrorism
The news that Shahid Butt, a man convicted of terrorism who served five years for conspiring to bomb the British…
Has AI finally developed consciousness?
Depending on where you stand on AI, 30 January 2026 will go down in history for one of two things.…
Met launches criminal investigation into Peter Mandelson
Once again, Keir Starmer’s government has ended up talking about scandal, rather than policy: something the Prime Minister once levelled…
The Epstein files have exposed the extent of Fergie’s greed
Since the latest tranche of the Epstein files was released over the weekend, the people who have been most embarrassingly…
The new junior doctors’ strikes aren’t about pay
Junior doctors have voted to extend their strikes – by a whisker. Turnout for yesterday’s vote collapsed to less than…
Why are men still in women’s prisons?
The women are at it again. For Women Scotland (FWS), specifically. They’re the pressure group who took on the Scottish…
