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Why Jack Schlossberg lost
Jack Schlossberg was, until yesterday, a high-profile candidate in New York’s 12th congressional district who seemingly had everything you might…
Good intentions alone won’t fix Britain’s maternity crisis
The Ockenden Maternity Review, published today, finds the NHS is not to be trusted – not for maternity care, possibly…
Labour MPs couldn’t handle the truth from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs
The end of Sir Keir’s premiership, and especially his last few PMQs, was always going to be less of a…
Would Andy Burnham scrap the triple lock?
As he prepares his government, prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham has made plenty of expensive promises. He wants money for defence, for…
Did Kemi Badenoch take the personal jibes too far at PMQs?
Keir Starmer came to PMQs wearing that look of post-resignation relief that we’ve grown all too used to seeing on…
Labour ministers lose it with Badenoch after PMQs
? WATCH: Kemi Badenoch calls Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a “spiteful class warrior” full of “incompetence” Starmer: “She grew up…
No, Israel isn’t ‘deliberately targeting’ children in Gaza
Once again, a United Nations body has accused Israel of the gravest crimes imaginable: this time, the deliberate murder of…
The rise and rise of America’s radical left
Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three fellow socialists in the New York City Democratic Congressional primaries and all three won last…
The campaign against Britain’s Jewish doctors
It was a short email, like many of the death threats this British Jewish doctor has received. Subject: ‘Legitimate target.’…
The £5 million question that Farage still can’t answer
To paraphrase Mrs Merton’s legendary question to Debbie McGee, ‘what first attracted Nigel Farage to Thai-based billionaire Christopher Harborne?’. Ever…
Watch: New SNP MP mocks swearing-in
Today, I was officially sworn in at Parliament. I took this Oath in order to serve the people of Arbroath…
The Defence Investment Plan won’t save Starmer’s legacy
Despite resigning as prime minister and leader of the Labour party on Monday, Keir Starmer is determined to publish the…
Why is Baroness Cass backing another puberty blocker trial?
Baroness Cass has long been hailed as a figure who restored sense to the battle over child transition. Her report…
Why I’m taking on the architectural establishment
It sounds like the start of a bad joke. An eco-activist, a Labour party hack and an EDI advocate walk…
The problem with the BBC’s compulsory Islamophobia training
In a week when BBC bosses unveiled yet another round of swingeing cuts – this time of around 550 jobs…
What exactly are ‘Labour values’?
Whether it’s competition or coronation this summer, expect to hear a lot about ‘Labour values’ before (and after) Andy Burnham…
Why aren’t conservatives more excited about Kemi Badenoch?
Is the Right ready to take advantage of a fractious Left in the increasingly unlikely scenario that Andy Burnham will…
Voters may never trust the DUP again after Jeffrey Donaldson’s downfall
Former DUP leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, was found guilty of eighteen counts of child sex abuse, including rape, at Newry…
Ahmed al-Sharaa can be a great man of history
Trump’s Middle East tour in May last year felt like the end of an era. Here was the former al-Qaeda…
The Murrell scandal is far from over
The imprisonment of former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell for embezzling more than £400,000 brings to the end an especially…
Northern Ireland has been the biggest loser from Brexit
In the decade since the vote to leave the European Union, arguably no issue has consumed more energy, column inches,…
Who wants to govern Britain?
As the country prepares for its seventh prime minister in a decade, some are asking: is Britain ungovernable? I’d like…
What I saw at the Montréal shooting
We were running late to check out of our hotel because my two young girls had demanded to use the…
Britain has become the weak man of Europe on border control
Britain and France have rewritten the ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal nearly a year after it came into effect.…
Why the heatwave hysteria won’t change how I run my school
Having been raised on a diet of 1950s war films, I have always admired the virtue of resilience. I was…
