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How long will Sturgeon cling on in Holyrood?

14 February 2025 1:47 am

To Scotland, where Nicola Sturgeon is, er, not very busy. In fact, Mr S can reveal the SNP’s former Dear…

Will the Munich attack lead to a crackdown on asylum seekers?

14 February 2025 1:24 am

Another day, another apparent attack by an asylum seeker in Germany. In Munich, a 24-year-old Afghan is alleged to have…

How Prevent failed David Amess

14 February 2025 12:09 am

In October 2021, Ali Harbi Ali assassinated David Amess, the MP for Southend West. The aftermath of this killing was…

Car rams crowd in Munich, injuring at least 28

13 February 2025 11:52 pm

This morning, at around 10.30 local time, a white Mini Cooper ploughed into a crowd of more than 1,000 people…

Reeves faced expenses probe in previous job

13 February 2025 11:21 pm

As birthdays go, this is unlikely to be Rachel Reeves’s most enjoyable – thanks to an unexpected present from the…

Labour MP WhatsApp scandal worsens

13 February 2025 10:29 pm

Uh oh. Former Labour health minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked and suspended at the weekend after some rather controversial message…

Does Rachel Reeves’s industrial strategy even exist?

13 February 2025 9:50 pm

The Labour government was pinning everything on an ambitious industrial strategy to boost growth. It was meant to make the…

Judges have finally backed a Christian who was sacked for LGBT posts

13 February 2025 9:25 pm

Finally, some good news on the free speech front: a Christian school worker who lost her job after sharing posts…

UK recession fears ease but Rachel Reeves has little to celebrate

13 February 2025 8:03 pm

The UK economy grew by 0.1 per cent in the last three months of 2024, according to the Office for…

Trump risks playing into Putin’s hands on a Ukraine peace deal

13 February 2025 5:07 pm

With the phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the quest for a peace deal for Ukraine is off…

What postliberalism really is

13 February 2025 5:00 pm

The election of Donald Trump and the advance of populism across Europe confirm that we have already entered a postliberal…

Saudi Arabia’s beer ban shows why it shouldn’t host the World Cup

13 February 2025 4:46 pm

Football fans attending the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia will not be allowed to buy alcohol during their time…

Don’t cancel Neil Gaiman’s books

13 February 2025 4:34 pm

How far can Neil Gaiman fall? The acclaimed author has been accused of sexual misconduct by eight women. One of his…

The case for ending the Israel-Hamas ceasefire

13 February 2025 4:30 pm

The question now facing Israel is this: will the war in Gaza recommence? The ceasefire agreement was signed less than a…

Tulsi caps off a big day for ‘realism and restraint’ in foreign affairs

13 February 2025 11:00 am

For the proponents of what they like to call realism and restraint in foreign affairs, it’s been a banner day.…

Trump might really be a ‘peacemaker’ in Ukraine

13 February 2025 9:39 am

In a move likely to mark the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war, Donald Trump today announced that…

Reform declares war on renewables

13 February 2025 5:24 am

It was in a plush central London office space lined with leafy wall plants that Reform UK chose to make…

Donald Trump says Ukraine peace talks should start ‘immediately’

13 February 2025 5:04 am

Donald Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin on the phone and agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in…

Tulsi confirmed: Gabbard survives Todd Young’s attack on the Constitution

13 February 2025 4:53 am

Despite frequent claims that Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be director of national intelligence was in danger, repeated ad nauseam in…

Is even Disney moving away from trigger warnings?

13 February 2025 4:50 am

The bonfire of DEI cobblers continues. Disney is reportedly removing its patronising trigger warnings from many of the films on its…

How to fix our immigration laws

13 February 2025 4:17 am

Almost every day there seem to be new headlines about abuses of the asylum and immigration system. The latest involves the…

Tories: Starmer misled the House

13 February 2025 3:43 am

It wasn’t Kemi Badenoch’s best day in the House of Commons today. But amid Keir Starmer’s endless demands that the…

Kemi is starting to sound like Sir Keir

13 February 2025 3:12 am

Kemi Badenoch has made PMQs her own. Her own what? Her own select committee. That’s how she runs it. She…

Who were Richard Hermer’s worst clients?

13 February 2025 2:03 am

Sir Keir Starmer’s Attorney General has had a rather rocky start to his role. Richard Hermer KC has come under…

Football doesn’t need a regulator

13 February 2025 1:50 am

Kemi Badenoch has come out against the Football Governance Bill, and not before time. In November 2021, Tracey Crouch, the…