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Why the French state fears Elon Musk
The French government on Wednesday declared war on X and on Elon Musk, directly threatening to ban the platform. Speaking…
The truth about the LA wildfires
It is like a Hollywood disaster movie with a difference: it really is happening close to Hollywood, and the stars…
The Democrats are changing their tune on Trump
The early attitudes from Democrats toward the new Trump administration are difficult to judge in a vacuum – and that’s…
The ‘MAGA’ South Koreans still supporting President Yoon
In extraordinary scenes more reminiscent of a South American coup than a supposedly stable first world democracy, fights broke out…
Reform and Tories accused of weaponising grooming gangs scandal
Unsurprisingly, the Conservative attempt to amend/kill off the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill failed tonight, with MPs voting 364 to…
Theresa May’s Brexit negotiator handed top Foreign Office job
A number of new Whitehall appointments have been made since the election, but there have been a couple of returning…
The issue of rape gangs will not go away
Finally, we heard it. At PMQs today, the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, dropped the euphemism ‘grooming’ and said ‘rape gangs’…
The ‘shocking tactics’ of Kemi Badenoch
Whitehall is being swept by moral outrage. Ministers, in full This Is Spinal Tap mode, have turned their pious horror up…
Tory attack ad gives Labour taste of its own medicine
What goes around, comes around. In producing their latest attack ad, it seems Kemi Badenoch’s Conservative crowd has taken inspiration…
Smoking bans: the fallback legacy for failed leaders
What is a legacy? Is it the sum of our actions? Is it the family and friends we leave behind?…
It’s no surprise so many British Jews are leaving for Israel
Some things may come as no surprise in theory but cause the heart to sink when they emerge as reality.…
Kemi Badenoch must ask better questions
Keir Starmer has not seemed in control of the grooming gangs story since it broke, but at Prime Minister’s Questions,…
The demise of the Royal Society of Literature
The tenth anniversary of the slaughter of Charlie Hebdo journalists reminds us that the literary establishment has long been equivocal…
Mandelson won’t represent UK at Trump inauguration
It’s the big question all Westminster is asking right now. Who has got a golden ticket to Donald Trump’s inauguration?…
Musk attacks Keir ‘Starmtrooper’ again over grooming inquiry stance
There’s no rest for the wicked. Twitter chief Elon Musk has barely come up for air over the last week…
Does Britain want to join Trump’s new world order?
Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more…
Kim Jong Un isn’t going away
It was only a matter of time before North Korea lit things up again. As US Secretary of State Antony…
Facebook is no place for politics
There was much jubilation yesterday among advocates of free speech following the news that Mark Zuckerberg is to relax restrictions on free…
Why do the left mock the dead?
It was party time in Paris and elsewhere in France on Tuesday evening as hundreds of people celebrated the death…
Is this the end of the Big Tech industrial censorship complex?
The vibe shift is real. Yes, all the chatter about the re-election of Donald Trump causing a cultural sea change…
Donald Trump’s plans sound… interesting
No one can accuse President-elect Donald Trump of failing to be transparent about his intentions and plans. Speaking at a…
Trump praises Musk as ‘smart guy’ when quizzed on Labour attacks
It’s been an eventful week for UK-US relations. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has spent much of it berating the Labour…
Why did Meta just hire Dana White?
It’s all change at Meta HQ. As Cockburn reported last week, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg — who has served…
Royal Society of Literature in meltdown over diversity drive
All is not well in the Royal Society of Literature. It now transpires that the bosses of the prestigious 200-year-old…
Keir Starmer is dangerously out of touch
The refusal of western elites to admit the failings of multiculturalism, and their ongoing molly-coddling of minority vested interests, is…
