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Yvette Cooper slams Reform as ‘right-wing wreckers’
To the Labour party conference, where Starmer’s army is celebrating its first meet as a part of government in over…
Can Israel avoid provoking all-out war with Hezbollah?
Israel has carried out its largest-scale operation against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the summer war of 2006. Wave after…
Gary Neville’s tin-eared defence of Keir Starmer
Gary Neville, the Sky Sports pundit and former Manchester United footballer, can’t help himself when it comes to tedious political rants.…
Labour must do more to end violence against women
How serious is the Labour party about tackling male violence against women and girls? In June, while campaigning for the…
Keir Starmer needs to sell his government
Keir Starmer has his big speech today at Labour conference and, like Rachel Reeves’s offering yesterday, the Prime Minister plans…
What is Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’?
President Zelensky is in the United States for his latest, possibly last, throw of the dice before the American election,…
Is Scottish Labour really back?
Labour’s first conference from government in 14 years might not be taking place against an ideal backdrop, with the Prime…
What is the point of Sue Gray?
Keir Starmer takes centre stage at Labour’s conference in Liverpool today, but whatever the Prime Minister has to say, the…
Will things really get better under Labour?
Labour’s honeymoon didn’t last long. Keir Starmer won power less than three months ago with a vow to ‘change Britain’.…
The quest for diversity could finish off University Challenge
Universities today are well-known as places where progressive, hyper-liberal politics predominate. It’s only logical, therefore, that the cry for equality…
The hidden costs of furlough
It wasn’t long ago that a Conservative government was congratulating itself for achieving the lowest unemployment figures in half a…
This is a ten-year plan, says Labour health minister
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has made a lot of noise about the perilous state of the NHS, insisting the…
Labour MP: regulate media to ‘make Starmer’s job easier’
To Liverpool, where all the wit and wisdom of Sir Keir’s Labour party is gathered. Starmer’s army has come to…
‘I was the devil incarnate’: An interview with John Boyne
John Boyne still doesn’t really know why he fell foul of the transgender mob. The author of The Boy in…
Refugee Council’s closed door policy
When the Tories were in power, one of the harshest critics of the government’s Rwanda scheme to deport asylum seekers…
Watch: Reeves’s hypocrisy over freebie row
Back to Labour’s freebie row, which has spilled over into conference week. Sir Keir Starmer’s top team is desperate to…
The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain
There is a Christian preacher, a woman, who has suffered the most heinous persecutions. She has been chased by mobs,…
Has Labour got anything new to say at its party conference?
Have you learned anything about this Labour government from the conference speeches so far? Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ address to the…
Can Israelis stomach another war?
It was late in 1997 when I got to a small military base on the border between Israel and Lebanon.…
We don’t need Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’
It is not hard to imagine what will be in Rachel Reeves’ ‘industrial strategy’. There will be lots of ‘green…
It’s no surprise nurses want a bigger pay rise
Just as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves was talking in her conference speech about the importance of resolving public sector strikes,…
Wes Streeting’s surprising praise for Reform
After the general election this year, Nigel Farage argued that he was now the leader of the opposition, after his…
The tragic cost of Japan’s floods
Yet another natural disaster has struck in Japan as floods and landslides in the Noto peninsula, precipitated by ‘unprecedented’ rainfall,…
Who was the real audience for Rachel Reeves’s speech?
Rachel Reeves had to deal with unexpected turbulence in her party conference speech, after anti-Israel protesters interrupted her. But that…
Starmer’s biographer slams ‘office politics’ of freebie fiasco
It’s day two of Labour conference and Sir Keir Starmer’s freebie fiasco still hasn’t gone away. Over a week since…
