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The Trump shooting is an indictment of the national mood
It was a long, hot, steamy day in Butler, Pennsylvania when someone crawled onto a rooftop that had baked in…
Two dead in Trump assassination attempt
Donald Trump was rushed off stage by Secret Service agents on Saturday afternoon after shots rang out at his rally…
Has Israel managed to kill the mastermind of October 7?
When an opportunity came today for Israel to take out the leading Hamas member and head of the Al-Qassam Brigades,…
What makes George Osborne think he’s a centrist?
Don’t bother going after the Reform UK vote – the next Conservative leader should target voters lost to the Lib…
Ireland’s ridiculous racism tsar
The Republic of Ireland has always prided itself on its lack of racism. Take the fact that two of the…
What should the Tory party do about Suella Braverman?
How do you solve a problem like Suella? Rishi Sunak is facing calls to expel Braverman from the Conservative party…
Why is anti-Semitism such a problem at elite universities?
Whether it’s Harvard, Pennsylvania, Oxford or Cambridge, if there are large endowments and manicured lawns then, it seems, anti-Semitism is…
England’s football success is an easy win for Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer, a lifelong Arsenal fan, will be in Berlin to watch England take on Spain this Sunday in the Euro…
Labour’s Yimby plan could lock the Tories out of power for good
As opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer long struggled to define what ‘Starmerism’ is, other than ‘not Corbynism’ and ‘not Toryism’.…
The Democrats should remove Joe Biden from office
In a sense, Democrats ought to be relieved. After his calamitous presidential debate, Joe Biden delivered one of his most…
Labour’s prison plan will fix one problem – but could cause plenty of others
Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has bowed to the inevitable: acknowledging that ‘our prisons are on the point of collapse’, Mahmood…
The trouble with Ed Miliband’s North Sea oil plan
Just Stop Oil continued its campaign by spreading orange paint over road junctions in Westminster this week, but why bother…
Britain is still the world’s most successful multi-faith democracy
The swearing-in ceremonies in parliament this week have been rare in that more of them are filmed, posted on social…
Is this Westminster’s coolest MP?
Parliamentary oath-taking rarely causes excitement. MPs swearing the oath of allegiance to the Crown after an election is an archaic…
What does it mean to have a more secular House of Commons?
The House of Commons has a more secular character than ever before. Roughly 40 per cent of MPs have chosen…
Is the Russian murder machine ramping up?
Are we witnessing a new and more dangerous stage in the indirect war between Russia and the West? The news…
Starmer’s most radical prisons shake-up is still to come
When Keir Starmer gave his first Downing Street press conference last weekend, he warned that ‘tough decisions’ were coming shortly.…
Appreciate Gareth Southgate, for one last time
Gareth Southgate probably won’t be in his job in seven days’ time. If England win the final against Spain on Sunday, it will be Sir Gareth, and he’ll…
Joe Biden won’t stop making gaffes
As Biden gaffes go, I wouldn’t say that introducing the Ukrainian leader as ‘President Putin’ is particularly bad. Silly, awkward,…
How the National Rally were discredited by the French media
The day after the French left had pulled off a sensational victory in the parliamentary elections one of their newly-elected…
Labour’s sinister record on trans rights
There’s a funny saying the Cockneys have to describe something ghastly coming in the wake of something lovely: ‘After the…
Is Joe Biden in denial?
Donald Trump had good reason to gloat over Joe Biden’s press conference flub referring to ‘Vice President Trump’. It was…
Wisconsin radio station agreed to cut interview with president at Biden campaign’s behest
Days after a radio host admitted to using the Biden campaign’s pre-selected questions in her post-debate interview with the president,…
Biden stumbles through solo press conference
If you were expecting a Benjamin Button-style de-aging of President Joe Biden at tonight’s NATO press conference after he recovered…
Watch: Biden calls Zelensky ‘Putin’
Oh dear. It’s a day ending in ‘y’ which means Joe Biden has caused another diplomatic incident. As the gaffe-prone…
