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Hunter Biden’s MAGA attack won’t throw Republicans off the scent
Hunter Biden was lost and now he’s found. That was the quasi-Biblical subtext of the president’s prodigal son’s speech outside…
The Crown is going out in a blaze of camp glory
Say what you like about Netflix and Peter Morgan, the producers and creator of The Crown respectively, but they’ve certainly…
Watch: Kemi Badenoch blasts Labour MP in gender spat
Kemi Badenoch isn’t exactly known for beating around the bush, and her spat with a Labour MP at this evening’s…
Mount Etna and a museum with rooms
“There is too much Nutella in the cornetto.” Not the words you hope to hear while trudging up the craggy…
The ECHR has become a danger to Europe
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats, just as Giorgia Meloni won’t nor Emmanuel Macron, not that the president of…
Why are MPs endorsing Stonewall’s rainbow laces campaign?
Our Members of Parliament are not short of stuff to do. There’s immigration – of the legal and illegal varieties…
Why is Australia turning its back on Israel?
In the days after the 7 October attack on Israel, Australia vowed to stand with Israel. It appears to have…
Sunak’s popularity hits record low
It never rains but it pours. Every time poor Rishi Sunak seems to catch a break, bad news appears just…
Will Javier Milei’s ‘shock therapy’ work?
The Argentinian peso has been devalued by 50 per cent overnight. Controls on exports have been scrapped, and the country’s…
Cop’s pledge to move away from fossil fuels is a farce
So, a deal has been reached. The world has agreed on what Cop 28 president Sultan al-Jaber has called a…
Is Britain’s economy ‘going backwards’?
Has the UK economy come to a standstill? This morning we learn that the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent…
Why isn’t Biden being straight with Zelensky?
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington a year ago was a love-fest, characterised by standing ovations from American politicians,…
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats
Do not let the relatively comfortable margin of victory for the Rwanda Bill’s second reading fool you: we have now…
Defending Matthew Williams’s Givenchy
Matthew Williams, the tattooed American fashion designer and creative director at Givenchy, will soon be evicted from the famous house.…
Sunak wins the Rwanda vote – but the battle is far from over
The government has won Tuesday’s vote on the ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill comfortably at 313 votes to 269 against. This…
Net zero minister forced to fly back for crunch vote
It’s been a rather difficult week for Rishi Sunak, and it’s still only Tuesday. After being grilled by the Covid…
Does a fifth of the population think we should still be in lockdown?
That shutting people away in their homes for weeks on end was going to have a bad effect on mental…
Turkey’s shameful referee attack was waiting to happen
All football matches in Turkey have been suspended after a club president invaded the pitch and punched a referee in the…
The convenient timing of Meghan and Harry’s Christmas video
There’s that well-known saying of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’. In what can only be an attempt…
Where is the solidarity with Guyana?
On Monday, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC), the environmentalist group Just Stop Oil (JSO), the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG),…
Asylum seeker dies on board migrant barge
An asylum seeker has died on the Bibby Stockholm boat. The identity of the migrant who lost his life on…
Macron suffers a ‘stunning’ setback over his immigration crackdown
Emmanuel Macron refused to accept the resignation of his interior minister on Monday evening after the government’s immigration bill was…
Have we really lost hundreds of thousands of workers since Covid?
The jobs market appears to be slowing down, but can we trust the figures? Vacancies have fallen for the longest…
What if Rishi Sunak loses his crunch Rwanda vote?
Rishi Sunak faces the most important vote of his premiership this evening when his ‘Safety of Rwanda’ bill has its…
‘Division will be punished’: Tory MPs urged not to rebel on Rwanda
Can Rishi Sunak persuade wavering Tory MPs not to vote down his Rwanda bill this afternoon? The European Research Group…
