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Nigel Farage: Trump can still ‘sink’ the Chagos deal
‘Better late than never.’ That’s how Reform party leader Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s sudden and dramatic repudiation of…
Trump is right: Starmer’s Chagos deal is an act of ‘great stupidity’
The excruciating thing about Donald Trump is that the madder and more unreasonable he seems to become, the more he…
Venezuela’s chavista elite is clinging on – but only just
Hugo Chávez’s eyes are everywhere across parts of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. In stark black and white, his gaze is stamped…
Could Brooklyn bring down the house of Beckham?
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is it to have a thankless child!’ Such was the lament of Shakespeare’s King…
Rachel Reeves: destroyer of jobs
Rachel Reeve’s jobs collapse is trundling on. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 155,000…
Leaving the ECHR won’t turn us into Russia or Belarus
In the debate about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) enthusiasts for European human rights law often…
How Macron’s ‘macho’ act fell apart
On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was urging his fellow Europeans to use a ‘bazooka’ against Donald Trump in response to his…
Trump slams Starmer’s Chagos deal
Oh dear. Less than 24 hours after Keir Starmer did his big Hugh Grant act over Greenland, Donald Trump has…
What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?
It is easy to forget that, under a quirk of the UK legal system, if you want to get the…
Keir Starmer will regret approving China’s new mega-embassy
Keir Starmer is poised to give the go-ahead for China’s new mega-embassy near the Tower of London – the biggest…
There’s trouble at the top in the Taliban
Taliban rule of Afghanistan becomes madder by the day. The only thing they reliably do is find new ways of…
We’re trapped in 2016
With all the talk of Brexit, do you ever get the sense that social media is stuck in 2016? Well,…
Tories purge the Jenrickites
It seems that Kemi Badenoch isn’t done with Robert Jenrick just yet. Tonight she is set to meet Tory MPs…
Starmer’s war on pubs shows he was never serious about growth
To a landlord in a draughty Victorian boozer staring at his latest business rates bill, it will read more like…
Far from all Americans support Trump’s advance on Greenland
President Trump isn’t ushering in a golden age but rather an age of gold. The precious metal has hit an…
Poll: public back Badenoch’s sacking of Jenrick
So, who’s gonna be the next to go? The rate of Reform switchers has stepped out in recent days with…
Is Prince Harry ready for his privacy trial showdown?
When Prince Harry makes one of his comparatively rare returns to Britain, he tends to exhibit one of two personae.…
Is the western alliance dead?
European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs…
Davos’s Iran invite is a new low
It’s the fag end of January, so that means it’s time for Davos – the annual World Economic Forum (WEF)…
Keir Starmer chooses jaw jaw over trade war with Trump
There used to be a sign up in No. 10 which quoted Gilbert and Sullivan. ‘Quiet calm deliberation disentangles every…
The West will regret not intervening in Iran
The longest war of the twentieth century was between Iran and Iraq and lasted for eight years. Yet during those…
We’re in danger of forgetting the Holocaust
On October 7, 2023, more Jewish people were murdered in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust.…
Does Europe still have an ally in America?
European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs…
The secret costs of net zero
Last week, a new report by the Institute for Economic Affairs argued that the cost of transitioning to net zero could be…
Jenrick’s treachery has made Badenoch stronger
If Kemi Badenoch needs a little relaxation from the ‘psychodrama’ of Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform, she could do a…
