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Why is Scotland’s government spending money on play doh and laser tag?
Another day, another ridiculous revelation emerges about the Scottish government. This time, it’s civil servants who are in hot water…
The truth about ‘gender-affirming care’
‘My breasts were taken away from me (and) the tissue was incinerated.’ Every word of destransitioner Chloe Cole’s testimony to…
Number of civil servants on £100k almost doubles
It looks like trimming the fat isn’t going too well at the civil service, despite the government’s middling efforts. Between…
You don’t need to ‘Queer’ the Mary Rose
I have an idea for the Mary Rose museum in Portsmouth. My idea is for a Mary Rose Ultimate Experience…
Why aren’t we more afraid of China?
Electric cars made in China could be turned off remotely, immobilising them instantly and crippling the West. That terrifying prospect…
Talk of a civil war in France is overblown – for now
Is France at war? Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most popular and respected – if controversial – intellectuals in France,…
Humza Yousaf will be judged on Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes
We must hope Nicola Sturgeon’s remaining supporters are, right now, judging her. That’s what she wanted, after all. In a…
SNP splashes taxpayers’ cash on ‘How to run a government’ book
As if there aren’t enough questions about the SNP’s spending habits, it turns out the Nats have been using £55,000…
Will Brits feel richer if inflation halves?
The government’s objective to ‘halve inflation’ by the end of the year seems to be back on track – for…
Sadiq Khan takes a pop at Lee Anderson over asylum seeker comments
Has Lee Anderson finally gone too far? Still reeling after finding out his son turned vegetarian at university (‘shocking, absolutely shocking’), the…
What the stabbing of Ian Watkins says about our prisons
This weekend, armed assailants tortured a prisoner and held him hostage in HMP Wakefield for six hours, before specialist prison…
The SNP is failing poor Scottish students
When she became first minister, Nicola Sturgeon told the nation that improving Scotland’s education system was at the top of…
Chinese cities are being sacrificed to save Beijing
Bazhou and Zhuozhou, two small cities to the south of Beijing, have been submerged in record floods since late July, when…
Amanda Abbington is right: drag queens aren’t for children
The Transgender Thought Police are impossible to please. The sooner Amanda Abbington realises, the better. The star of Sherlock and…
Sir Humphrey covers up, again
Good old Sir Humphrey. Tories, Labour, Lib Dems – whoever is in power, he always seems to win. In recent…
The Tories are heading for electoral evisceration
‘Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible…
Britain has a productivity problem
First the good news – the fall in living standards may be coming to an end, with wages starting to…
Nicola Sturgeon’s splurges on airport VIP services
Despite it being the SNP’s main political goal, Scotland came no closer to becoming an independent state during Nicola Sturgeon’s…
We’re living through Barack Obama’s third term
One of the big questions in Washington and across the country as Joe Biden’s very public decline has accelerated is:…
Arise! Scottish nationalists could soon have their first Lord
It’s not every day a supporter of Scottish independence is in the running for a peerage, least of all from…
Watch: Matt Hancock’s cringeworthy Barbie singalong
Can Matt Hancock sink any lower? Considering that only last year he lost the whip for abandoning his constituents to…
The politics of exam results
August always means an anxious wait for results days, but this year pupils will be feeling particularly apprehensive. England’s exams…
What does Scottish Labour stand for?
North of the border, the long-anticipated by-election in Rutherglen and Hamilton West has finally been confirmed. This constituency is classic…
Mick Lynch is stuck in the past
Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT, has never felt truly English. In conversation with Iain Dale at the…
Fining landlords over illegal migrants will make renting even worse
As part of a slew of measures to freeze illegal immigrants out of the economy, the Tories have announced tougher…
