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Andy Burnham’s cry for help at PMQs
The first question at PMQs was something which may not go away: Andy Burnham’s engagement with Manchester City – now…
Watch: Burnham insists he won’t ‘cooperate’ with Greens – for now
It’s only taken weeks, but Andy Burnham has finally declared the Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ policy ‘antisemitic’ – and…
Can we trust the National Trust to keep Rules safe?
The National Trust gets plenty of things wrong. Too often, the charity allows modish social values to distract from its…
Shane Gillis won’t silence me
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out Shane Gillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours…
The responses to the tiger attack have been gross and misanthropic
As I was writing the latest chapter of my book, The Children Of Wolves, while sitting in my family’s home outside…
Greta Thunberg is a protest addict
Greta Thunberg is in Paris. Yes, as if the French haven’t got enough on their assiettes with ‘youths’ and ‘students’…
The BBC is not censoring Strictly Come Dancing
I have never watched Strictly Come Dancing. The thought of celebrities I’ve never heard of taking part in jolly japes…
How regenerative farming could save rural Britain
Environmentalists once worried that Prince William was interested only in ‘posh nature’ – rhinos, elephants and pangolins being arguably more…
The true cost of Trump’s diesel deal with Putin
Donald Trump’s telephone call with Vladimir Putin last Friday was supposed to be about a suspected outbreak of plague in…
Zia Yusuf’s plan to tackle the small boats crisis doesn’t hold water
Zia Yusuf, Reform UK’s Home Affairs spokesman, is making quite a name for himself as someone who provokes rage across…
Why Tom Cruise’s Digger flopped at the box office
Has climate hysteria finally run its course? I ask because the latest Hollywood blockbuster on the subject seems to have…
The SNP minister who wants her own Artist In Residence
Shetland MSP Hannah Mary Goodlad has been in the spotlight since her election this May. As the first SNP representative…
A very Lib Dem coup
Desperate Sir Ed Davey will plead with his party not to launch a coup against him at a showdown meeting…
Trump’s unconvincing imitators
The recent US adventures in Venezuela and Iran have not, on the American side, wrought the same losses of life and…
The prisoner early release scheme is making life impossible for police
On 1 October, Michael Bogle was released from prison, one of 700 prisoners set free that day under Andy Burnham’s…
What Russia – and Putin – really thinks about Brexit
The revival of the “Putindunnit” Brexit narrative demonstrates how politicians continue to misunderstand and misrepresent the scale, impact but above…
Cornell and the myth of pre-Sexual Revolution America
I have always been afraid of watching the 1977 film Looking for Mr. Goodbar. I grew up hearing about how…
Why does the internet hate the young man killed by a tiger?
If a predatory animal attacks a harmless human, do we root for the animal or the human? Not everyone holds…
Farage falls behind Badenoch in latest YouGov poll
There’s been plenty of talk about a ‘Badenoch bounce’ – but could today’s YouGov poll finally prove there’s something behind…
Sandi Toksvig’s war on Wikipedia
My Weetabix spoon froze in mid-air when I saw that Sandi Toksvig, affable host of televisual fluff, and activist for…
The chutzpah of Ed Miliband
The yiddish word chutzpah is often defined as when a man who has murdered both his parents pleads for clemency…
The IMF has faith in Britain. Should it?
Britain’s economy has come out near top of the class in the latest report from the International Monetary Fund. Overnight…
France’s schools protest has been hijacked
This is not going to be an easy week for the French police. More than 200,000 people are expected on…
The bravery of Joshua Wong
Joshua Wong, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent pro-democracy activists, turns 30 today. He should be in the prime of…
Should Britain have joined the Euro?
Critics of the Labour government looking for a stick to beat it with have hit on a novel line of…
