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Corporation tax could be one of Hunt’s biggest Budget headaches
Public sector pay. Re-negotiating the energy price guarantee. Another fuel duty freeze. Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget on 15 March is…
Will Tony Blair ever give up on ID cards?
Is Tony Blair ever going to give up hope of foisting ID cards on us? As prime minister, he was…
The SNP leadership race has turned into the mother of all culture wars
Bring back Nicola Sturgeon. The race to replace her as SNP leader and first minister has turned into the mother…
Is Facebook’s verification scheme a scam?
Is Facebook’s scheme, announced over the weekend, to encourage its three billion users to pay $12 (£10) a month to…
Why don’t Harry and Meghan sue South Park?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are hardly averse to taking matters to court. From their privacy tussles with the…
Does Kate Forbes support austerity?
Watching Kate Forbes this week struggle to reconcile her social conservatism with her ambition to be First Minister of Scotland…
Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader
It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader…
Kate Forbes isn’t homophobic for opposing same-sex marriage
Let me get this right. In Scotland’s political class it is de rigueur to believe that someone with a penis…
What do SNP members think of Kate Forbes’s views?
Kate Forbes’s religious views have sparked a backlash among her SNP colleagues. The party leadership contender’s announcement that she would…
Nicola Bulley and the shame of the TikTok ghouls
Ghoul – ‘a person morbidly interested in death or disaster’ – is such a descriptive word. There are a lot…
Victimhood and mudslinging now define American politics
The 2024 campaign has hardly started, but the air is already filled with noxious fumes, most of it from desperate…
Thunderdome 2024: here come the Republican hopefuls
Over Presidents Day weekend, Donald J. Trump, our most beloved former president — according to him anyway — posted the…
The contrast between Biden’s and Putin’s speeches
The contrast between the two presidents could hardly be starker. One is dwelling in his own dream palace, indulging fantasies…
Jimmy Carter’s second act was better than his first
Jimmy Carter is commonly depicted as one of America’s worst presidents. His four-year tenure is said to be a mishmash…
Damian Green’s rejection is a sign of things to come
Much has been written about Damian Green’s failure on Saturday to be selected for the new Weald of Kent seat.…
Can progressives handle Christian politicians?
The SNP leadership contest should not be about Kate Forbes’ religious faith but that issue has quickly come to dominate.…
Time is ticking for Sunak to resolve the Protocol
Today was supposed to be the day when Rishi Sunak presented an agreement which resolved the issues over the Northern…
Would Biden punish Sunak for pulling out of the ECHR?
The US government has warned British security officials that the ‘five eyes’ intelligence-sharing agreement may be at risk if the…
Did Putin just START a nuclear arms race?
The war with Ukraine is here to stay – and Russians better get used to it. That was Vladimir Putin’s…
The £5.4 billion government surplus masks a larger economic issue
There have been celebrations this morning about a government surplus of £5.4 billion last month, and people are even talking…
The hounding of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of paying bribes worth €10 million (£8.9 million) to female guests at his notorious bunga…
Why did a judge praise the ‘admirable aims’ of Just Stop Oil activists?
When seven Just Stop Oil protesters were convicted of trespassing, the judge in the case had some warm words for…
How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century
Pat Buchanan recently ended his syndicated column, essentially completing his retirement from public life. Yet it’s hard to think of any…
Kate Forbes’s gay marriage blunder
Mistakenly, I assumed that politicians supporting Kate Forbes’ campaign to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP understood she…
Kate Forbes’ nightmare 24 hours
It seems that Kate Forbes’ stance on same-sex marriage hasn’t gone down too well with some of her more socially…
