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Watch: Stonewall chair grilled on transgender issues
It’s been a difficult time for the gay rights charity Stonewall. Chief Executive Nancy Kelley is due to leave her…
Igor Girkin’s arrest was a long time coming
With the reported arrest on Friday of Igor Girkin (aka ‘Strelkov’ or ‘Igor the Terrible’) the career of one of…
Rage against the baseball machine
In a lifetime of attending perhaps a thousand professional baseball games, all but ten or so in the minor leagues…
Will Sunak and Starmer now ditch their green promises?
Where do the by-election results leave Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer? The Labour leader had been hoping for a victory…
Sadiq Khan should reconsider imposing Ulez on outer London
That the Conservatives retained the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, albeit by a whisker, has been put…
How Spain’s politics succumbed to radicalism
If Spain’s left-wing government loses tomorrow’s general election, thousands of people including many senior civil servants stand to lose their…
Falklanders won’t forgive the EU’s ‘Las Malvina’ blunder
This week, the European Union, in its infinite wisdom, made pretty much the only blunder which, in the eyes of Falkland Islanders, there…
Will Chuck Grassley’s Burisma bombshell finally get the Bidens fired?
A famous clip from recent history: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the…
The Japanese are over rice
It would be an insult to call rice the staple food of Japan. For centuries it has been so much…
The trouble with Keir Mather
Every time I cross paths – or swords – with a cranky student activist, I have the same thought: ‘Oh…
Starmer turns on Sadiq over Ulez
You just hate to see it. Less than 12 hours after the Uxbridge result and already the Labour blame game…
Labour’s Uxbridge chair quits and attacks Starmer
For all Keir Starmer’s eager spin, last night wasn’t the great Labour triumph it was supposed to be. While the…
Ulez isn’t the election gift Sunak wishes it was
Given everyone has won a prize in this round of by-elections, the three main party leaders have been feasting on…
Rishi Sunak is caught in a debt trap
Two by-election defeats have made it a miserable morning for the Tories, even if they did manage to cling on…
The Ulez rebellion has started
It was, to adapt the famous Sun headline from the 1992 general election, Ulez wot won it. The Conservatives’ narrow…
Seven graphs that show the challenge for the Tories at the election
The Tories have avoided total wipeout in last night’s triple by-election. Rishi Sunak dodged the embarrassment of becoming the first…
A nagging doubt about Keir Starmer has been exposed
‘One out of three ain’t bad’ isn’t a saying you hear often. Yet avoiding a clean sweep of by-election defeats…
Has Britain avoided falling into recession?
Earlier in the week, the stock market responded very positively to news that inflation had come out a little lower…
Does the Somerton victory mark the return of the Lib Dems?
Set against the expectation of a triple by-election defeat, last night will be seen as cause for optimism by some…
Tories shouldn’t deceive themselves over their Uxbridge win
Some Conservatives are going to take heart from the by-election results. They may have lost Somerset and Frome to the…
Watch: Johnny Mercer attacks Labour ‘Inbetweeners’ MP
An enjoyable bit of by-election telly this morning. As political bigwigs trooped into the news studios to discuss last night’s…
Starmer hails ‘historic’ moment after Selby by-election victory
Labour has won the Selby and Ainsty by-election – overturning a majority of more than 20,000, the biggest it has…
Sunak avoids triple by-election defeat after Tories hold Uxbridge
Rishi Sunak has narrowly avoided three by-election losses. Overnight, the Conservatives lost Somerton and Frome to the Liberal Democrats, overturning…
What explains Ron DeSantis’s woeful run for president?
It’s widely acknowledged that, as governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis has been a success. As a presidential candidate, however, he…
Stanford’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the messiness of modern science
The president of Stanford University, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has resigned in the shadow of an investigation that revealed that some…
