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Watch: Priti Patel challenged to apologise over borders failure
As Reform UK’s support surges, the Conservatives are coming under scrutiny for failing to deal with immigration to the UK…
Why are ‘anti-racists’ silent about Arbel Yehud’s terrible ordeal?
Watching Arbel Yehud being freed in Gaza today, I thought to myself: this is what it must have been like…
Britain is not ready to give up North Sea oil and gas
Ed Miliband seems to have gone missing since Rachel Reeves announced her ambition for a third runway at Heathrow yesterday.…
Why is the assisted dying bill being rushed through parliament?
A change in the law letting people demand help from the state to kill themselves is the sort of thing…
Watch: Richard Madeley grills Rachel Reeves on CV
When it rains for the Labour lot, it pours. This morning Rachel Reeves came under fire on Good Morning Britain…
In defence of ‘traditional’ exams
You might think that students will be celebrating the news that universities could be moving away from ‘traditional’ exams in…
Gaza uni protests used non-students to boost numbers
Well, well, well. In a new report released by the Higher Education Policy Institute, it has emerged that a number…
Is Serbia heading for its 1968 moment?
Serbia has been gripped by months of student protests in response to a tragic accident at Novi Sad railway station…
The many questions of the Washington plane crash
‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump…
Tory donors pay five figures to appear at Reform fundraiser
Uh oh. Things aren’t looking good for the Tories after a number of former Conservative donors paid five figures to…
Friedrich Merz turns up the heat on Germany’s migration debate
Last night, Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition and the man most likely to become the Germany’s next chancellor, came…
Is Europe about to switch Nord Stream back on?
Could Gazprom’s Nord Stream undersea gas pipelines, partially destroyed by saboteurs in September 2022, eventually be reopened? This week, Denmark’s…
Will Donald Trump be fooled by Peter Mandelson’s volte-face?
The best that can be said about Lord Mandelson’s change of heart over Donald Trump is that it shows how…
Will public sector workers return to their desks for Donald Trump?
So much for the theory that Covid would change working practices for good: that we would divide our time between…
Starmer can’t keep blaming the Tories
Great stuff from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. She was entertaining, tricky, probing, unpredictable. If she keeps this up she may…
Growth and environmentalism are perfectly compatible
I’m an environmentalist and I say ‘build, build, build’! Let’s build gigawatts galore of Great British renewable energy and clean…
At least Rachel Reeves is trying
Rachel from accounts is settling up. In a speech at Siemens Healthineers near Oxford, the Chancellor signalled her commitment to…
Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?
Why is it that some lies get endlessly repeated without ever being challenged, even though they are quite obviously wrong?…
Can’t the UK pay its ‘Head of Tariff Strategy’ more than £55k?
Donald Trump is back in the White House and the UK is playing catch-up once again. Whether it’s Mandelson grovelling…
James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?
It’s wonderful to hear that Professor James Tooley, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, has been reinstated after a…
Sadiq splurges £2.1 million on statues commission
Another day, another City Hall scandal. Mr S can today reveal that Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has splurged a…
Where Kemi Badenoch keeps going wrong at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch may well have been right in the points that she made at Prime Minister’s Questions, but she managed…
Where is Ed Miliband?
It’s a busy day for the Labour lot, what with Rachel Reeves’s big growth speech this morning and Sir Keir…
I can’t stand Stanley Tucci
I love Italian food, and I love food writing and TV shows, so you might think I’d love Stanley Tucci.…
Rachel Reeves tries to reverse Labour’s economic gloom
As expected, Rachel Reeves used her big – and long – growth speech this morning to back the expansion of…
