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Are Scots tiring of devolution?
As Scottish devolution celebrates its 25th anniversary, are voters losing faith in Holyrood? A quarter of the country believes devolution…
Sunday shows round-up: Sinn Fein First Minister vows to be a ‘unifier’
Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill made history this week as she became Northern Ireland’s first nationalist first minister. Speaking to…
Why Kate Forbes is right about high tax
I was on BBC1’s Question Time with Kate Forbes in Glasgow last week in which she was oddly loyal to…
Why Britain’s farmers aren’t revolting
Europe’s ablaze, but not on this side of the English Channel. Paris has been besieged. Dutch politics turned upside down.…
Will Londoners fall for Sadiq Khan’s election bribes?
Taxpayers are being treated to a clutch of pre-election bribes from a politician who only a few months ago was…
The trouble with Marcus Rashford
What a week it’s been for Marcus Rashford, who divides opinion like almost no one else in football. The Manchester…
The world would be a better place without Facebook
It’s sometimes difficult to remember a time before Facebook, isn’t it? It’s like trying to remember a time before the…
What will US air strikes actually achieve?
The 28 January drone strike in Jordan that killed three American soldiers and wounded 40 more necessitated a US military…
America is being sucked back into the Middle East
It didn’t take long for the US military to retaliate to the drone strike in Jordan that killed three American…
America is getting closer to open conflict with Iran
‘Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy,’ said Sun Tzu. The Biden administration takes the opposite approach. America’s Commander-in-Chief spent much of…
The housing crash that never was
So is that the end of the property ‘crash’? Nationwide reported this week that its house price index was up…
Is Caroline Nokes really a Conservative?
Quite a number of people have been asking what Caroline Nokes MP is doing in the Conservative party after her…
Labour’s ‘trans inclusive’ conversion therapy ban will be a disaster
Keir Starmer has a reputation for changing his mind. But on one issue at least, the Labour leader remains worryingly…
War with Russia won’t be what the West expects
Is war coming our way? The warning last month from Admiral Rob Bauer, the chairman of Nato’s Military Committee, indicates…
Why does the NHS care what Stonewall thinks of it?
One might reasonably assume that NHS employees would consider biological sex to be extremely important. After all, there are huge…
Netflix rides to the rescue for Meghan and Harry – again
After a catastrophic 2023, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have taken some time to regroup and rethink. Now they…
Sinn Fein’s rise to power is nothing to celebrate
The resumption of devolution in Northern Ireland – scheduled for tomorrow after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) reached a deal…
Home Office afflicted by top talent crisis
Rishi Sunak has made ‘stopping the boats’ central to his premiership. So it is, er, sub-optimal then that word reaches…
Rugby isn’t child abuse. But it is dangerous
Why is no one only slightly wrong any more? We don’t say or do things that are foolish or ill-thought out…
What was the Clapham chemical attack suspect doing in Britain?
Here’s my question about Abdul Ezedi, the suspect in the Clapham chemical attack: what the hell was he doing in…
Viktor Orban has proved he’s a shrewd negotiator
All eyes were on Hungary’s Viktor Orbán at yesterday’s EU summit in Brussels. The issue at stake was simple but…
France’s farmers will be back on Paris’s doorstep before long
In a week full of symbolism in France, the most striking image was the sight of armoured cars blocking the…
Keir Starmer’s £28 billion problem
Another day, another story about Labour’s plans to ditch its pledge to spend £28 billion a year on green investment.…
Why have Germany’s spies opened a file on their old chief?
It’s not often that an ex-spymaster is spied upon by his former colleagues. But just that has happened in Germany,…
Is there such thing as a fair Trump trial?
I’m an unlikely defender of Donald Trump. Politically, he’s not my boy. Most of the former president’s hyperbolic rants make…
