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Tory chairman: ‘This was treachery’

16 January 2026 2:18 am

So. Farewell then Robert Jenrick. The most popular member of the shadow cabinet (according to ConservativeHome at least) was this…

Reform risk becoming the face of Tory failure

16 January 2026 12:36 am

How grim things are suddenly looking for Nigel Farage and Reform UK. It isn’t that their poll ratings are crashing…

Why are illegal migrants welcome in Britain but not Eva Vlaardingerbroek?

16 January 2026 12:21 am

So they can control our borders after all. After the government presided over a near-record high for small-boats crossings last year, swinging…

Sacking Jenrick has made Badenoch stronger

15 January 2026 11:20 pm

The most important thing about Robert Jenrick’s sacking isn’t Robert Jenrick. It’s that it is yet another demonstration of Kemi…

Kemi sacks Robert Jenrick

15 January 2026 10:43 pm

Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the Tory whip and suspended his party membership. In…

How America could help bring down Iran’s Islamist regime

15 January 2026 10:22 pm

The near-total internet blackout imposed by the regime in Iran has now continued for nearly a week. Behind the veiled effort…

Britain’s economy is standing still under Labour

15 January 2026 6:41 pm

Britain’s economy is standing still. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show GDP grew by just 0.1…

The Supreme Court’s trans athlete ruling matters to women everywhere

15 January 2026 6:11 pm

Women are losing trophies and, in some cases, suffering serious physical harm when male athletes are permitted to compete in…

Iran, the Shah and the revival of kingship

15 January 2026 5:54 pm

Earlier this week in Los Angeles – home to the largest Iranian community in the United States – thousands gathered…

Trump pedophile protector

Calling Trump a ‘pedophile protector’ was ‘fate’

15 January 2026 7:04 am

In a time of political turmoil, the world cried out for a hero, and it may have found one in…

Starmer’s ‘jokes’ make him sound like a creepy uncle

15 January 2026 3:03 am

Another week, another U-turn! This time the PM had chosen to make Prime Minister’s Questions even more torturous for himself…

Japan’s Thatcher is making a huge election gamble

15 January 2026 1:59 am

Japan will go to the polls in February for a general election after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called a snap…

Starmer’s gags fail to save his PMQs

15 January 2026 12:33 am

It used to be said that Keir Starmer had a magic lamp, such was his fortune in opposition. If this…

Samuel Pepys’s school should be proud, not ashamed, of its ex-pupil

14 January 2026 10:49 pm

‘I know not how to abstain from reading,’ wrote Samuel Pepys back in the seventeenth century. Were he by some…

Ed Miliband’s wind power delusion is costing us a fortune

14 January 2026 10:27 pm

Remember the summer of 2022 when politicians from Ed Miliband to Boris Johnson went around telling us that wind energy…

The SNP’s Budget was nothing but cynical spin

14 January 2026 10:20 pm

Yesterday, Shona Robison, Scotland’s finance minister, delivered her tax and spending plans for the coming fiscal year. The headline message…

The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right

14 January 2026 10:09 pm

Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the…

How Trump can squeeze the Iranian regime

14 January 2026 9:46 pm

The Iranian people have shown true courage as they protest against the Islamic Republic. As the pressure mounts, some elements…

When will the West Midlands Police chief go?

14 January 2026 9:30 pm

Congratulations to the Met: you are officially no longer the worst run police force in the United Kingdom. The West…

Full list: Labour U-turns to date

14 January 2026 8:24 pm

It was just 18 months ago that Keir Starmer took office, pledging to ‘stop the endless Conservative chaos’. How times change.…

Will the new Mock the Week focus on being funny?

14 January 2026 7:50 pm

Heaven knows we could all do with a laugh right now, what with 2026 having begun in such an inauspicious…

Iran and Israel are true allies in London

14 January 2026 7:25 pm

In November 2023, a mass rally in support of Israel after the October 7 massacres took place in London. Body…

How Trump can squeeze the Iranian regime

14 January 2026 5:35 pm

The Iranian people have shown true courage as they protest against the Islamic Republic. As the pressure mounts, some elements…

Remembering the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams

14 January 2026 5:33 pm

Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott…

Welcome to buffer-zone Britain

14 January 2026 5:00 pm

Are ‘buffer zones’ becoming the latest weapon in the political establishment’s clampdown on dissent? Scottish First Minister John Swinney says…