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Burnham’s night czar eviscerates Reeves

5 February 2025 1:07 am

Oh dear. It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – so that means more bad news for Rachel Reeves. Today, the…

What Trump’s tariff ‘opening salvo’ will teach him

5 February 2025 12:29 am

Mexico and Canada have been given a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s tariffs. China has offered only the most half-hearted…

Trump’s tariff war with China is just getting started

5 February 2025 12:04 am

Over the weekend, Donald Trump described his sweeping 10 per cent tariffs against Chinese goods as an ‘opening salvo’. Within…

Will Starmer choose Brussels or Trump?

4 February 2025 11:44 pm

Europe or America – the eternal British dilemma. Keir Starmer made clear he rejects such a binary approach in his…

What does Donald Trump want from a trade war with China?

4 February 2025 11:27 pm

What are the real intentions of Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth…

Starmer may come to regret his EU defence pact

4 February 2025 10:03 pm

Sir Keir Starmer has been on another overseas visit. On his 18th trip in seven months as prime minister, he…

Angela Rayner to create Islamophobia council

4 February 2025 9:12 pm

Today’s Telegraph splash could have been designed in a laboratory to trigger Tory tempers. After months of deliberation, the paper…

Asda and the absurdity of ‘work of equal value’

4 February 2025 8:25 pm

At last, some news of an industry in Britain that is flourishing. Unfortunately, it is one that is helping to…

Reform tops a YouGov poll for the first time

4 February 2025 6:38 pm

There’s reason for cheer at Reform HQ this morning: Nigel Farage’s party is leading Labour in a YouGov voting intention…

Germany’s immigration election is heating up

4 February 2025 6:07 pm

These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…

Canada’s tariff reprieve isn’t a victory for Trudeau

4 February 2025 5:30 pm

US President Donald Trump’s long-standing threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico didn’t materialise yesterday. Both…

Who cares about the cold old?

4 February 2025 5:10 pm

When I was a child, we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced slum in Walthamstow, East London with bombsites at…

The voice coach row reveals how Keir Starmer will come unstuck

4 February 2025 5:01 pm

The news that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the adenoidal android – has employed a voice coach is simply…

How John Swinney changes his stripes

4 February 2025 5:00 pm

Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more…

Rory Stewart is no match for JD Vance

4 February 2025 5:00 pm

I was highly amused to see that JD Vance has administered a right old ‘fagging’ – or whatever public school…

Why is Spain so anti-Trump?

4 February 2025 4:30 pm

Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a…

Elon Musk is right about USAID

4 February 2025 5:16 am

I suspect few people outside the Washington nexus had ever heard of the United States Agency for International Development, or…

Reforming Ofsted won’t fix Britain’s problem schools

4 February 2025 5:06 am

The proportion of children staying away from school may be alarming – one in five –  but the proportion of…

Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime

4 February 2025 4:03 am

England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling,…

Has Ukraine just carried out another assassination in Moscow?

4 February 2025 3:24 am

The Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails) apartment complex in Moscow’s north-western Shchukino suburb bills itself as an exclusive place to live,…

Foreign Office struggles to mind its Mandarin

4 February 2025 2:58 am

The Foreign Office was once described as a ‘palace of dreams’, yet these days it seems increasingly like a graveyard…

Did Starmer breach Covid rules?

4 February 2025 2:18 am

Oh dear. It seems No. 10 aren’t keen to go anywhere near suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer might have broken…

Bridget Phillipson tries to rebrand her education reforms

4 February 2025 12:36 am

Education has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, as the government’s Schools Bill makes it way through parliament. So…

The BBC always knew that Russell Brand was a lout

4 February 2025 12:16 am

Several women who worked with Russell Brand at the BBC have revealed that they were too scared to make official…

Will Britain get dragged into Trump’s trade war?

3 February 2025 11:59 pm

North America is now engaged in a full-blown trade war. Markets are reacting. Japan’s Nikkei was the first to indicate…