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Donald Trump says Ukraine peace talks should start ‘immediately’
Donald Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin on the phone and agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in…
Tulsi confirmed: Gabbard survives Todd Young’s attack on the Constitution
Despite frequent claims that Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be director of national intelligence was in danger, repeated ad nauseam in…
Is even Disney moving away from trigger warnings?
The bonfire of DEI cobblers continues. Disney is reportedly removing its patronising trigger warnings from many of the films on its…
How to fix our immigration laws
Almost every day there seem to be new headlines about abuses of the asylum and immigration system. The latest involves the…
Tories: Starmer misled the House
It wasn’t Kemi Badenoch’s best day in the House of Commons today. But amid Keir Starmer’s endless demands that the…
Kemi is starting to sound like Sir Keir
Kemi Badenoch has made PMQs her own. Her own what? Her own select committee. That’s how she runs it. She…
Who were Richard Hermer’s worst clients?
Sir Keir Starmer’s Attorney General has had a rather rocky start to his role. Richard Hermer KC has come under…
Football doesn’t need a regulator
Kemi Badenoch has come out against the Football Governance Bill, and not before time. In November 2021, Tracey Crouch, the…
Tory backbenchers are outshining Kemi Badenoch at PMQs
Prime Minister’s Questions is rapidly becoming a challenge for Kemi Badenoch to come up with a topic that the Tories…
OBR gloom spells trouble ahead for Rachel Reeves
Has Rachel Reeves broken her fiscal rules? It’s been speculated for some time now that the Chancellor lost her headroom…
Read: JD Vance’s full speech on AI and the EU
Vice President JD Vance told world leaders at yesterday’s AI summit in Paris that the ‘the AI future is not…
Treasury silent on Chagos deal costs
How much does a sell-out cost? Mr S has been trying for months now to work out what the Chagos…
Is Pope Francis Rory Stewart in a frock?
Imagine living in your own holy fiefdom, with some of the strictest security on earth, and lecturing other nations about…
Will flattery buy Zelensky help from Trump?
For all the efforts on every side to manage expectations, there is a sense that some kind of Ukraine deal…
The police vetting system is a mess
Picture the scene: the press conference room at New Scotland Yard in March 2023 – just after the publication of…
Labour MP: keep illegal migrants because of Paddington
Desperate times call for desperate measures seems to the mantra of the day in Labour HQ. First a foreign office…
Cheaper mortgages won’t save Britain from recession
Electricity bills are going up. Netflix is adding a couple of pounds a month to the price of a standard…
Why whisky may be worse for you than cocaine
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has hit out at the longstanding US ban on cocaine, in response to Donald Trump’s crackdown…
Why is Jean-Luc Melenchon talking about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory?
Jean-Luc Melenchon has broken a taboo in French, and Western, politics. The de facto leader of the French left, whose…
Labour minister: Cede Chagos to avoid war
Just when you think Labour’s Chagos saga can’t get any stranger, it does. Now foreign minister Stephen Doughty has claimed…
Strict schools are sapping the joy out of learning
When it comes to behaviour policies, schools have fallen into two extremes. Across the border in Scotland, schools practise ‘restorative…
Israel faces an agonising decision
In those awful first weeks after 7 October, someone came up with a slogan that was taken as a rallying…
What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain
Nearly half of Generation Z believes that Britain is a racist country, and a similar proportion say that they aren’t…
Trump has backed Hamas into a corner
Donald Trump’s second meeting with a foreign leader in the Oval Office – this time with King Abdullah of Jordan…
Could Russian sanctions soon be lifted?
Markets are rife with rumours of impending talks between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire for the…
