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2024’s biggest winners will be the candidates who control the news cycle
This week a new Morning Consult poll — a qualifier for the first Republican primary debate — shed new light on…
Humiliation for Coutts as they grovel to Farage
Gerald Ratner, eat your heart out. The decision by Coutts to ‘de-bank’ Nigel Farage over reputational concerns and then brief…
Roll up, roll up for Ian Blackford’s farewell tour
Ian Blackford, the SNP MP, is to stand down at the next election. And last night he gave an interview…
Francis Suarez’s Messi debate stage ploy
As Miami mayor Francis X. Suarez looks to dribble onto the presidential debate stage in Milwaukee, he’s raffling off front-row…
Putin has escaped his South African dilemma
As a founding member of the International Criminal Court, South Africa has an obligation to arrest Vladimir Putin should he…
Prigozhin reappears for first time since failed Wagner coup
Nearly four weeks on from his failed coup, Evgeniy Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group, has finally resurfaced in public. A video published…
America’s regional culinary traditions are at risk of extinction
Without divulging my exact age, I will tell you my generational status lies tucked in the crevasse between solid Gen…
The liberal case for Nigel Farage
After ‘it’s not happening’, ‘it may be happening, but for different reasons’, and ‘would it be such a bad thing…
Striking consultants aren’t likely to get sympathy
Today and tomorrow’s strike by NHS consultants underlines how industrial action has become the preserve of the well-paid. The consultants…
IRS whistleblowers allege special treatment for Hunter Biden
The Department of Justice denied agents investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business deals access to evidence and witnesses, according to…
Do the public really support Mick Lynch’s rail strikes?
Britain is once again stuck at a red signal – with yet another set of rail strikes bringing the country’s trains…
Nigel Farage, NatWest, and the sinister rise of corporate ‘purpose’
The plot is thickening. If it turns out NatWest CEO Alison Rose was the source for BBC business editor Simon…
The shadow of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler still haunts Germany
Seventy-nine years ago today, 20 July 1944, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a much-wounded young Wehrmacht officer, packed a briefcase…
Britain has a Martin Lewis problem
Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, has become the sage of the cost-of-living crisis. He is closing in on national…
The Coutts scandal shows the trouble with going cashless
The outrage over the cancelling of Nigel Farage’s bank account has uncovered the lengths to which elements of the British…
Will MI6’s Russian recruitment drive work?
Sir Richard Moore, head of the Secret Intelligence Service – MI6 – follows the tradition of only giving one public…
New Zealand mourns after Auckland gun rampage
Two people are dead after a gunman armed with a pump-action shotgun stormed a building in Auckland’s central business district…
Watch: Nigel Farage launches fresh attack on Coutts
Coutts gave Nigel Farage the boot as a customer because their reputation risk committee didn’t approve of his political views.…
Jason Aldean’s critics have clearly never been to a small town
Country music superstar Jason Aldean has come under fire for a song that condemns violent crime and promotes the Second…
Why have the Tories given up on London?
Have you ever heard of Susan Hall? Until a month ago, I hadn’t. Now that she has been selected as the…
Why Threads is failing to win over Twitter users
When Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta released Threads earlier this month, it looked to be the biggest threat to Twitter in the…
Philip Larkin, the Poet Laureate who never was
We’ll never know if Philip Larkin, one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century, would have been a…
Coutts must be held to account over Nigel Farage
When Nigel Farage said Coutts had closed his bank account and claimed political victimisation, many thought he was making it…
Why I won’t grow up
Recently, a famous American novelist came to stay at my place in London. In her later Substack post she described…
Coutts’ reputation committee has destroyed its own reputation
Nigel Farage has been cancelled by his bank because their reputation risk committee doesn’t approve of his political views and…
