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Trump should replace Obamacare with personal accounts
President Donald Trump has reopened the healthcare debate with a mix of ideas that do not align. He has pledged…
Starmer should pick a UN ambassador who knows Trump
After three months of speculation, Keir Starmer has appointed a replacement for Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington. The winner…
Keir Starmer just declared war on the lobby
This evening, Downing Street has announced a major overhaul of the ‘lobby’ briefing system. Currently, accredited political reporters are invited…
Kemi Badenoch is right to call for more defence spending
Kemi Badenoch has announced a series of commitments on defence spending that she would implement if she were to become…
How Donald Trump could serve a third term
The 22nd Amendment leaves open several possible ways a two-term president could serve all or part of a third term…
What the word ‘intifada’ really means
Finally the left is showing an interest in freedom of speech. And all it took was a police clampdown on…
Despite the rate cut, inflation remains a danger
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has just voted to cut interest rates to 3.75 per cent and…
Watch: First Lady releases trailer for MELANIA
“Here ve go again” says Melania Trump to the camera at the start of the new trailer for MELANIA – a feature documentary…
Bats are paying the ultimate price for our wind turbine obsession
The 11,000 wind turbines in the UK are not only an eyesore, they are also a killer. Their blades can…
How to really save the BBC
Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC has accidentally done Britain a favour. One ‘fake news’ moment involving the…
Why did scientists think the Beachy Head Lady was African?
A human skeleton found in a box in the basement of Eastbourne town hall in 2012, has, not for the…
Why should British taxpayers fund students’ European Erasmus jollies?
Half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money will be spent on rejoining the EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange programme. With libraries…
The police crackdown on ‘globalise the intifada’ chants is too little, too late
Protesters chanting ‘globalise the intifada’ will now be arrested, according to the heads of Greater Manchester Police and the Metropolitan…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump’s firehose of MAGA rhetoric
Rumors flew around like great, big beautiful birds ahead of President Trump’s address to the nation tonight. Was he going…
Trump reels off 2025 achievements in White House address
As a mighty US armada bobs in the Caribbean off the shores of Venezuela, President Trump just addressed the nation…
Boris Johnson: will cowardly Europe betray Ukraine again?
Boris Johnson has urged European leaders to hand $247 billion of frozen Russian central bank assets to Ukraine – but…
An unhappy Christmas PMQs for Keir Starmer
Thank God! Today was the last Prime Minister’s Questions before Christmas and so Sir Keir and Mrs Badenoch began their…
Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes
Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer conformed to time-honoured tradition today at Prime Minister’s Questions by producing lots of jokes that…
European leaders have changed their tune on war
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…
The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable
Each winter our NHS is struck by an ‘unprecedented’ number of cases of seasonal illness. Politicians talk gravely of the…
Did Britain need to rejoin Erasmus?
Is the government engaged in a campaign by stealth to return the UK to membership of the EU? It couldn’t…
Keir Starmer’s union woes just got worse
During the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s regime, Labour politicians liked to encourage the idea that a change of government…
The Church of England’s gay marriage row will rumble on
The Church of England’s House of Bishops met to discuss the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) project yesterday: that…
Why is the Scottish government so afraid of a grooming gangs inquiry?
The Scottish parliament has voted in favour of allowing government ministers to mislead it. That is the effect of a…
