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New Zealand’s smoking ban u-turn is bad news for Rishi Sunak
New Zealand’s new coalition government has announced that it will scrap Jacinda Ardern’s plan to usher in a generational smoking…
New Zealand’s coalition goes to war with Jacinda Ardern’s legacy
New Zealand finally has a government again. It’s been 40 days since Labour was defeated in the country’s election, but the…
Russia’s plan to freeze Ukraine
Winter hasn’t officially started, but Ukraine is already covered in snow. As temperatures dip a few degrees below zero, the…
What good would forcing cyclists to have number plates do?
There was little competition for the oddest and most obscure bill to be announced in the King’s Speech: the proposal…
The tension simmering beneath the Dublin riots
The situation in Dublin yesterday – in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of…
The families of Israel’s hostages are living in hell
Yair Mozes, whose mother and father are among the 240 hostages kidnapped by Hamas, is trying to describe what it…
In defence of the latest high migration figures
The debate over migration figures released today seems to be whether or not we’ve reached a new ‘record high’. The…
There’s no one to vote for if you want controlled immigration
There has been much Tory huffing and puffing about the ONS revising 2022 net migration to 745,000, up from its…
Why Geert Wilders won
Far right, anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has won a historic victory for his Freedom party (PVV) in shock Dutch elections…
Tory backlash as net migration hits record levels
After much Whitehall spin, the official figures are now in. Net migration in 2022 is estimated to have hit 745,000,…
Sunak has no excuse for immigration being this high
Of all the essential tasks facing Rishi Sunak when he became Prime Minister, bringing down the level of legal immigration…
Was the Black Death racist?
Even the Black Death of the mid-fourteenth century, we are now being told, practised racial discrimination as it raged through…
Is Javier Milei already defying his critics?
Critics of Argentina’s president Javier Milei have already made up their minds: he is a lunatic and his plans will…
Net migration hits 672,000 – with 2022 figures revised up
Has migration to the UK peaked? Net migration in the year to June hit 672,000, down from 745,000 in 2022.…
Did Israel-Palestine protests push Geert Wilders’s election victory?
Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he…
Has Hunt opened the door to a spring election?
Rishi Sunak wakes up to the most positive front pages his government has had in months. The decision to use…
Is India attempting assassinations on foreign soil?
Is the Indian government guilty of conducting a covert policy of targeted assassinations of political opponents on foreign soil? The…
Removing Hamas will not solve everything
Ever since Hamas invaded Israel, massacred 1,200 of its citizens and kidnapped 240 as hostages, there has been an effort…
Why won’t the Tories ban pupils from transitioning?
Finally, after months of argument and expectation, media briefings and leaked drafts, it seems the government just might be ready…
Don’t mock Big Tech around Rishi Sunak
PMQs began with Sir Keir Starmer’s favourite trick. He read out a sob-story intended to humiliate the government. Having outlined…
Joe Scarborough, harbinger of Trump doom
I’m old enough to remember when Joe Scarborough spent most of his show kissing Donald Trump’s ass. Those were the…
The truth about Hunt’s ‘tax cutting’ Autumn Statement
Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget was an exercise in Big State Toryism. It lacked meaningful tax cuts, was full of new spending promises,…
Why is the public sector so unproductive?
The government has achieved its promise to halve inflation from last December’s level, borrowing has come in at little under…
Hunt’s Autumn Statement was surprisingly upbeat
Jeremy Hunt has just finished the most upbeat economic statement we’ve heard in a good while – certainly since the…
A ceasefire leaves Israel in a dangerous position
A four-day pause and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners. Seen from London or New York, this seems like a…
