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Labour can’t complain about sectarianism in Gorton
And with that, what was once racist is now allowed to be said. What was yesterday a conspiracy theory is…
Starmer: I am going nowhere
Poor old Sir Keir. It turns out that there was indeed a large anti-Reform tactical vote in Gorton – it…
The shamelessness of Zack Polanski
The Gorton and Denton by-election gives us a taste of the vicious future that awaits England. The most dynamic force…
Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished
In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare,…
The Gail’s attacks are brainless – and terrifying
If anti-Israel agitators wish to avoid being described as terrorists, they might begin by ceasing to terrorise ordinary people. The…
Green by-election triumph is a sign of things to come
In the end, it was not even that close. The Green party has stormed to victory in Gorton and Denton,…
Lauren Boebert’s sneaky texts derail Hillary’s Epstein deposition
Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill austerely complied with a House Oversight Committee subpoena in order to explain their ties…
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions knows no bounds
North Korea’s ninth party congress, held this week, was little more than a rubber-stamping exercise. That much was clear when…
Will Russia really be able to stop Britain’s nukes?
A recent report by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) argues that within the next decade, Russian missile defences may…
The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton
A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in…
More reviews won’t fix the NHS’s failing maternity services
NHS maternity services are in crisis: everyone knows that. In fact, everyone has known a lot more than that for…
Can Wes Streeting get the sick back to work?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has tried using the NHS for social engineering before. Previously, he’s suggested that weight-loss jabs could…
The Epstein files and the new Satanic Panic
I’ve spent the last few years building an audience of skeptics and – let’s be honest – more than a…
How Silicon Valley is calling the shots on the battlefields of Ukraine
Sometime in the late morning of February 4, somebody at SpaceX headquarters pressed a computer key. A command line was…
Starmer is destroying the ‘special relationship’
Britain’s relationship with the United States is special. Our ties run deeper than governments, are stronger than personalities and are…
The Greens’ Urdu ad is Zack Polanski at his worst
Progressivism is politics as fashion. The product is status and provocation the marketing strategy. The socialist, the liberal and the…
MAGA-nomics is working
Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, the longest in history, served as a reminder of the relentless will and…
Keir Starmer needs a reality check
In the film Goodbye Lenin, a German family has to convince a fussy, old woman who is also a committed…
It’s time to treat social media like tobacco
There is growing momentum behind a ban on social media for the under-16s. Last week, the Prime Minister hinted that…
Japan is holding firm against China’s Taiwan bullying
One of the most serious issues in the well-filled in-tray of freshly endorsed Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi is Taiwan…
Badenoch savaged Starmer at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch was on savage form at Prime Minister’s Questions. The leader of the opposition has generally improved her performance…
Hoyle: I tipped off the Met about Mandy
Peter Mandelson is in a right old funk. Having been ignominiously hauled in by the Met for questioning on Monday,…
Iran is ready for war – is America?
In 2001, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei met privately with Spain’s then-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. Aznar recounted how Khamenei…
Afghanistan is not ready for mass ‘returnees’
The word ‘return’ suggests something voluntary, even restorative: the closing of a long chapter of exile and the beginning of…
Can ‘calamity Lammy’ fix the justice system?
David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, has had a bruising five months. Last September, he took charge of the Ministry of…
