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Diane Abbott deletes foul-mouthed migrant tweet
Is Diane Abbott OK? A day after the independent MP hit out at Tory party deputy chairman Lee Anderson for…
Tory deputy chair: Tories have failed on migration
Oh dear. It’s ‘Stop the Boats’ week in 10 Downing Street as the government tries to set the news agenda…
Britain could lose five years of economic growth
It’s no great secret that the events of the past few years have delivered a serious economic blow to the…
Was Putin behind the Electoral Commission hack?
The hacking of the Electoral Commission’s databases highlights the way that in the interconnected modern world, ‘warfare’ can be as…
Why Britain’s prisons will only get more violent
Prison and probation staffing is approaching dangerously low levels’ said the Ministry of Justice in a document they published by…
Alex Salmond teases a reconciliation with Sturgeon
Even in her absence, Nicola Sturgeon dominated Iain Dale’s discussion with Alex Salmond and David Davis at the Edinburgh festival.…
Suella Braverman’s Turkey deal won’t stop the boats
It hardly takes a genius to work out that whoever is in charge of the government’s media grid over the…
Macron can’t escape blame for France’s failures in Africa
Emmanuel Macron was the recipient of a letter on Monday from nearly 100 senators from across France’s political spectrum. The…
Why is Scotland’s government spending money on play doh and laser tag?
Another day, another ridiculous revelation emerges about the Scottish government. This time, it’s civil servants who are in hot water…
The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’
‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to…
Number of civil servants on £100k almost doubles
It looks like trimming the fat isn’t going too well at the civil service, despite the government’s middling efforts. Between…
You don’t need to ‘Queer’ the Mary Rose
I have an idea for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth. My idea is for a Mary Rose Ultimate Experience…
Why aren’t we more afraid of China?
Electric cars made in China could be turned off remotely, immobilising them instantly and crippling the West. That terrifying prospect…
Talk of a civil war in France is overblown – for now
Is France at war? Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most popular and respected – if controversial – intellectuals in France,…
Humza Yousaf will be judged on Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes
We must hope Nicola Sturgeon’s remaining supporters are, right now, judging her. That’s what she wanted, after all. In a…
SNP splashes taxpayers’ cash on ‘How to run a government’ book
As if there aren’t enough questions about the SNP’s spending habits, it turns out the Nats have been using £55,000…
Will Brits feel richer if inflation halves?
The government’s objective to ‘halve inflation’ by the end of the year seems to be back on track – for…
Sadiq Khan takes a pop at Lee Anderson over asylum seeker comments
Has Lee Anderson finally gone too far? Still reeling after finding out his son turned vegetarian at university (‘shocking, absolutely shocking’), the…
What the stabbing of Ian Watkins says about our prisons
This weekend, armed assailants tortured a prisoner and held him hostage in HMP Wakefield for six hours, before specialist prison…
The SNP is failing poor Scottish students
When she became first minister, Nicola Sturgeon told the nation that improving Scotland’s education system was at the top of…
Chinese cities are being sacrificed to save Beijing
Bazhou and Zhuozhou, two small cities to the south of Beijing, have been submerged in record floods since late July, when…
Amanda Abbington is right: drag queens aren’t for children
The Transgender Thought Police are impossible to please. The sooner Amanda Abbington realises, the better. The star of Sherlock and…
Sir Humphrey covers up, again
Good old Sir Humphrey. Tories, Labour, Lib Dems – whoever is in power, he always seems to win. In recent…
The Tories are heading for electoral evisceration
‘Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible…
Britain has a productivity problem
First the good news – the fall in living standards may be coming to an end, with wages starting to…
