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Watch: Farage’s car crash heckler

24 July 2026 12:31 am

Usually the phrase ‘car crash interview’ is only a metaphor, referring to a politician after a terrible exchange. But now…

Badenoch on Shapps: The Tories are now a ‘very different party’

24 July 2026 12:28 am

“This is a new and different Conservative Party.” Sky’s @LucyJMcDaid asks Kemi Badenoch about reports former Conservative cabinet minister Sir…

Jameela Jamil’s Brit bashing is embarrassingly out of date

24 July 2026 12:22 am

Poor Jameela Jamil. No one gave her the memo. She thinks it’s still 2021 and that a spot of sassy…

A business rates cut won’t save our pubs

23 July 2026 11:35 pm

When the announcement arrived this morning that Andy Burnham is cutting business rates for pubs, social clubs and live music…

Gary Lineker’s tax hypocrisy

23 July 2026 10:55 pm

The UK’s king of virtue signalling has served up another blinder. Gary Lineker has joined 119 fellow millionaires in signing…

The joyous ridicule of Stella Creasy’s avian error

23 July 2026 9:27 pm

‘Stella Creasy’s bird-brained parrot alert,’ ran a Steerpike headline yesterday. The Labour MP for Walthamstow had posted a video of…

Wes Streeting is clueless about Israel

23 July 2026 7:05 pm

As Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, in his first speech as head of the terrorist group’s political bureau, promised to ‘continue…

Is Ed Miliband preparing to take on Donald Trump?

23 July 2026 7:03 pm

Just one day after Ed Miliband was made Foreign Secretary we heard in the Telegraph that the White House is upset about the appointment,…

Does Jameela Jamil really think Brits ‘are the most evil in history’?

23 July 2026 5:18 pm

Have you heard of Jameela Jamil? No, me neither, though I’m told she’s worryingly influential. This British-born ‘actress, comedian, activist…

Burnham isn’t being honest about his bus fare cap

23 July 2026 4:55 pm

Al Gore never quite recovered from claiming, in 1999, that ‘I took the initiative in creating the internet.’ The former…

Andy Burnham is much more nostalgic than Nigel Farage

23 July 2026 12:00 pm

The strange thing about our new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s professed wish to return to the 1970s, to a prelapsarian…

Grant Shapps misses out on Tory selection 

23 July 2026 6:05 am

The Tories are stepping up their seat selections, amid increased speculation that a new Prime Minister will mean an early…

Why is Andy Burnham scolding his own ministers already?

23 July 2026 4:04 am

Andy Burnham’s new government, barely 24 hours in power, is in danger of collectively losing its marbles. The fault lies…

Is Andy Burnham really committed to devolving power?

23 July 2026 3:44 am

Andy Burnham’s third day in office tells us much about the man. This morning he unveiled his latest proposal to…

north sea samos

Energy investor that bailed on Britain IPOs for $230 million

23 July 2026 3:44 am

Britain is losing out as a result of its changeable energy policy. That’s the main takeaway from Samos Energy’s recent…

Stella Creasy’s bird-brained parrot alert

23 July 2026 3:33 am

Walthamstow has anyone lost a parrot? There’s one in Lloyd park right now! Please share to help reunite it with…

Why is Glasgow trashing its architectural heritage?

23 July 2026 2:52 am

It’s a big summer for Glasgow. Fresh from twinning with Boston after the Tartan Army’s World Cup antics entranced the…

Tariffs

Why aren’t American companies passing on tariff refunds?

23 July 2026 1:23 am

Even for an economy as large as the United States, $70 billion still counts as a significant sum of money.…

Burnham’s AI shakeup is a shambles

23 July 2026 12:52 am

Success in government, like reputation in business, takes time to establish but can be ruined in an instant. The Department…

Inside the Green party’s defence battle

23 July 2026 12:02 am

A Green party attempt to bolster its credibility on defence has triggered furious internal backlash. A group of members, academics,…

Xi Putin

China has Russia over a barrel

22 July 2026 9:15 pm

Vladimir Putin just can’t keep away. Having visited Beijing in May on the heels of Donald Trump, it has been announced that…

The new Energy Secretary hates North Sea oil

22 July 2026 9:06 pm

Miatta Fahnbulleh, who has just become the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero – and has been…

Burnham’s policy blitz backfires

22 July 2026 9:04 pm

Oh dear. It is only day three of Andy Burnham’s premiership and his policy blitz is already descending into quite…

Voter fraud

The urgent need to fix voter fraud

22 July 2026 8:55 pm

New Jersey officials just admitted that roughly 6,600 non-citizens were illegally registered to vote between 2023 and 2024. More than 400…

Is it any wonder Anas Sarwar is fleeing Holyrood?

22 July 2026 8:52 pm

The leadership of the Scottish Labour party isn’t worth the price of a cold cup of tea. Anas Sarwar has…