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It shouldn’t be surprising that a Muslim son of immigrants is funding Reform
Should it really be a surprise that Zia Yusuf, a Muslim entrepreneur who made his fortune setting up a company…
Watch: Just Stop Oil deface Stonehenge
Now they’ve gone and done it. The juvenile antics of the eternally brain dead Just Stop Oil will be familiar…
When will the SNP admit its independence dream is over?
Line one page one of the SNP manifesto is, as promised, about independence. If the SNP wins a majority of…
Why won’t this museum let women see its Igbo mask?
The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford has won a reputation for its energetic programme of ‘decolonisation’. Its director, Laura van Broekhoven,…
Boris Johnson can’t save the Tories from the coming wipeout
Are you beach-body ready? Boris Johnson, who has always projected a joyously uninhibited confidence about his physical form, clearly thinks…
Why Sunak will struggle to win the credit for falling inflation
After a three-year saga, inflation has finally returned to the Bank of England’s target. The Office for National Statistics reports…
France’s left-wing coalition would unleash migrant chaos on Britain
Emmanuel Macron has described the left-wing coalition’s manifesto as ‘totally immigrationist’. The Popular Front, which brings together Communists, Greens, Socialists…
Labour ditches Scottish candidate over ‘pro-Russian’ posts
It’s a day ending in ‘y’ which means that a political party somewhere is having candidate drama. This time it’s…
Why does Labour want to ban these 15 peers?
Following last week’s manifesto launches, Mr S has been looking into the fine print. As part of Labour’s plans to…
The case for not voting at this election
Anyone over the age of 40 can scarcely help comparing this election, or the state of our two main parties,…
Revealed: Tory member behind anti-Reform attack ad firm
Are the Tories feeling the heat from Reform? Apparently so, if online adverts are anything to go by, with London-based…
What’s the real reason Jim Ratcliffe is backing Starmer?
On the face of it, there could hardly be a better example of a turkey voting for Christmas than the…
What’s wrong with calling a female walker ‘sweetheart’?
So, another place where men have to mind their language: on mountains. In an article in Scottish Mountaineer magazine by one…
Trussonomics is featuring heavily in the election
Is Trussonomics making a comeback? That’s the suggestion today, as Jeremy Hunt was recorded on the campaign trail telling students that Liz…
Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly
Should a candidate feel forced to pull out of public hustings events because of concerns about their safety? No, of…
Farage threatens vetting company with legal action
Uh oh. After multiple reports of controversial candidates, Reform UK boss Nigel Farage has announced that he is threatening a…
Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?
The Nouveau Front Populaire has been formed to take on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the French legislative…
Why Kim Jong Un is rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin
When Vladimir Putin lands in Pyongyang today on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, it will be…
Kylian Mbappé’s veiled Le Pen warning won’t save Macron
France’s prime minister was out and about on Monday mixing with the proles south of Paris. ‘I’m going to shake…
London can thank Macron for becoming Europe’s largest stock market
When Paris overtook London as the continent’s largest stock market two years ago, it was widely seen as a significant…
Starmer flounders on phone-in over private schools and Corbyn
With only 16 days to go until the election – and today being the last day you can register to…
Trump’s crush on Debra Messing
Long before he called Taylor Swift “unusually beautiful,” it was Debra Messing who had Trump utterly entranced. According to a…
How the Scottish Tories can survive
‘The thing is,’ says one Conservative member of the Scottish parliament, ‘that we wanted rid of him – just not…
In praise of Nigel Farage’s war on banks
Why did it take Nigel Farage to suggest clawing back some of the super profits pocketed recently by British banks?…
Labour shouldn’t squander the chance to fix council tax
In the final election push, the Tories are trying to drag the Labour party into a game of taxation whack-a-mole.…
