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Why Trump hates USAID so much
The Trump administration’s takedown of federal spending has begun in earnest with the dismantling of the US Agency for International…
Trump’s popularity amongst Brits is rising
Back in July 2019, Donald Trump called Boris Johnson ‘Britain Trump’, before adding ‘that’s probably a good thing, they like…
Eleven lowlights from the assisted dying evidence session
To Westminster, where last week Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying bill began the evidence session of committee stage. But rather than…
Starmer set to close Chagos deal in ‘coming weeks’
Is Sir Keir Starmer determined to make himself more unpopular with the British public? The news of his latest Chagos…
Revealed: ONS blames Ring doorbells for dodgy jobs data
What caused the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to lose faith in its own jobs figures? After the pandemic, the…
Burnham’s night czar eviscerates Reeves
Oh dear. It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – so that means more bad news for Rachel Reeves. Today, the…
What Trump’s tariff ‘opening salvo’ will teach him
Mexico and Canada have been given a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s tariffs. China has offered only the most half-hearted…
Trump’s tariff war with China is just getting started
Over the weekend, Donald Trump described his sweeping 10 per cent tariffs against Chinese goods as an ‘opening salvo’. Within…
Will Starmer choose Brussels or Trump?
Europe or America – the eternal British dilemma. Keir Starmer made clear he rejects such a binary approach in his…
What does Donald Trump want from a trade war with China?
What are the real intentions of Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth…
Starmer may come to regret his EU defence pact
Sir Keir Starmer has been on another overseas visit. On his 18th trip in seven months as prime minister, he…
Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council
Today’s Telegraph splash could have been designed in a laboratory to trigger Tory tempers. After months of deliberation, the paper…
Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’
At last, some news of an industry in Britain that is flourishing. Unfortunately, it is one that is helping to…
Reform tops a YouGov poll for the first time
There’s reason for cheer at Reform HQ this morning: Nigel Farage’s party is leading Labour in a YouGov voting intention…
Germany’s immigration election is heating up
These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…
Canada’s tariff reprieve isn’t a victory for Trudeau
US President Donald Trump’s long-standing threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico didn’t materialise yesterday. Both…
Who cares about the cold old?
When I was a child, we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced slum in Walthamstow, East London with bombsites at…
The voice coach row reveals how Keir Starmer will come unstuck
The news that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the adenoidal android – has employed a voice coach is simply…
How John Swinney changes his stripes
Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more…
Rory Stewart is no match for JD Vance
I was highly amused to see that JD Vance has administered a right old ‘fagging’ – or whatever public school…
Why is Spain so anti-Trump?
Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a…
Elon Musk is right about USAID
I suspect few people outside the Washington nexus had ever heard of the United States Agency for International Development, or…
Reforming Ofsted won’t fix Britain’s problem schools
The proportion of children staying away from school may be alarming – one in five – but the proportion of…
Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime
England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling,…
Has Ukraine just carried out another assassination in Moscow?
The Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails) apartment complex in Moscow’s north-western Shchukino suburb bills itself as an exclusive place to live,…
