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Labour could make Britain’s prison crisis worse
On Saturday night, Labour announced its plans to ‘fix the prison crisis and keep criminals behind bars’. If this announcement…
Starmer’s shadow cabinet split on private schools
Labour have made much of their VAT raid on private school fees, proudly trumpeting the policy as one of the…
France can’t afford a Le Pen government
It is possible that President Macon had some clever plan when he called a general election in the wake of…
Douglas Ross resigns as Scottish Tory leader
Just when you thought this election campaign couldn’t get any more tumultuous, Douglas Ross has announced he will resign as…
Olaf Scholz’s party suffers worst EU election defeat as AfD surges
The mood in Olaf Scholz’s SPD party headquarters in Berlin is despondent this morning. The German Chancellor’s party won just…
French voters have delivered a damning verdict on Macron
I sensed something significant was going to unfold on Sunday as I took my morning coffee at our village café.…
Can Sunak get his election campaign back on track?
As a general rule, you know your election campaign has gone off track when politicians are being asked on the…
Gantz’s resignation from Israel’s war cabinet spells trouble for Netanyahu
Benny Gantz, leader of the Israeli Resilience party and a member of the war cabinet, has resigned from Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
Macron is trying to scare French voters into rejecting Le Pen’s party
The French presidential list score in the European elections ‘is not a good result for the parties which defend Europe’.…
The European elections and the ascent of the right
Can the ‘far right’ still really be called the ‘far right’ if it becomes the mainstream? That’s a question for…
Macron’s snap election is his biggest gamble yet
Emmanuel Macron tonight dissolved France’s National Assembly and announced there will be new parliamentary elections with the first round of…
Watch: Green leader’s nuclear disaster
There are some decent arguments in favour of unilateral disarmament. So it’s a pity then that Carla Denyer did not…
Watch: Tory aide stops Holden grilling
Which Tory minister is having the worst week in politics? It’s a title that Rishi Sunak seemed to have sewn…
Sunday shows round-up: Farage doubles down on D-Day attack on PM
Rishi Sunak has been accused of making a massive error of judgment after he exited the D-Day commemorations early on…
Minister: ‘No question’ of replacing Sunak
It’s three days since Rishi Sunak’s Normandy gaffe but there’s no sign of the row going away anytime soon. The…
Why I’ll be voting Reform (reluctantly)
I’ve always loved voting. No matter how many times I’ve been disappointed, I’ll be out there next time round getting…
How Putin plans to fund a forever war in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s costly war in Ukraine has transformed Russia as the president has forced the country to pivot onto a…
The hardest part of climbing Mount Everest isn’t what you think
Everest is, we’re told, ‘the highest garbage dump in the world’. It’s a place, if you believe the reports from…
Does the fate of Foot’s Labour show what could happen to the Tories?
The party is floundering. Its leaders are at odds with their activists about what are their core beliefs. It is…
Agatha Christie and the truth about detective fiction’s Golden Age
A hundred years ago, the Golden Age of detective fiction was taking off. In the years that followed, Agatha Christie,…
Will my generation still remember D-Day?
In the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, just inland of Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, a crowd had gathered before…
Why Biden’s Gaza ceasefire proposal failed
Ceasefire deals to end the war in Gaza have come and gone. President Biden’s unexpected announcement of the latest formula…
French healthcare shows there’s another way for the NHS
Nigel Farage says the NHS ‘isn’t working’ and has suggested the UK adopt a French-style heathcare system. He’s evidently been…
Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto
I’d say that Nigel Farage gave the best performance in last night’s debate. You might expect that: he’s a full-time…
Why was George Orwell a socialist?
When George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, read the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four in December 1948 he wrote a rapturous report to his…
