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Keir Starmer goes walkies to McLaren

9 December 2025 3:33 am

‘Nurse! Nurse! He’s out again!’ That’s right, Sir Keir had escaped his handlers and was mingling with the public once…

Is Harry about to spend a lot more time in Britain?

9 December 2025 2:49 am

For lovers of self-destructive hubris – a quality that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex surely possess in spades –…

Scotland is getting sicker

9 December 2025 2:37 am

Scotland’s NHS is in crisis and Scotland’s government is in denial. A new study by the former head of the Royal College…

Is the navy prepared to fend off Russia’s underwater threat?

9 December 2025 2:24 am

The Royal Navy has traditionally been the mainstay of Britain’s military power on the global stage. It is approaching its…

Will Starmer take up Badenoch’s grooming gangs advice?

9 December 2025 1:22 am

Plans for a national inquiry into grooming gangs are underway, but will the inquiry actually happen? The Labour-led probe has…

Jewish fans deserve the truth about Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Villa Park ban

9 December 2025 1:11 am

Everyone is familiar with the old insult that you can tell when a politician is not telling the truth because…

Ireland is a weak spot in Russia’s undersea cable war

9 December 2025 12:37 am

Europe is right now fighting an enemy it cannot see and protecting a vulnerability it has not mapped. Undersea drones…

Lammy’s jury reforms face an uphill battle

9 December 2025 12:17 am

If you speak to Labour MPs about looming battles in the new year, most are quick to mention the elections…

Yes, Europe’s civilization is being erased

8 December 2025 11:02 pm

Last week the Trump administration expressed its fear that Europe faces “civilizational erasure.” Its concern was articulated in a 33-page…

Aussies are enjoying England’s Ashes meltdown

8 December 2025 10:00 pm

What a letdown for lovers of Test cricket in both England and Australia. After just six playing days, the Ashes…

Why this trans person is troubled by a conversion therapy ban

8 December 2025 5:58 pm

Conversion practices are in the news again, at least if you listen to the BBC. We woke up to the…

Britain’s water crisis is getting worse

8 December 2025 5:39 pm

When the taps run dry in Tunbridge Wells you know something has gone very wrong in the heart of Albion.…

The BBC’s antisemitism training is an offensive parody

8 December 2025 4:35 pm

The BBC has unveiled its compulsory training course for all staff on how not to be racist to Jews. I…

Most of the England cricket team should be dropped

8 December 2025 1:10 am

England’s cricketers have just crashed to a second humiliating defeat against Australia, leaving them 2-0 down in the five-match series.…

Could benefits be withdrawn from young people?

8 December 2025 1:04 am

Benefits could be withdrawn for young people not engaging with Youth Guarantee scheme The number of 16 to 24-year-olds not…

Tories to move headquarters

7 December 2025 7:25 pm

You’re either in front of Mr S or you are behind. It was just six weeks ago that Steerpike reported…

The Andrew debacle has blown open the royal coffers for all to see

7 December 2025 5:30 pm

If you’ve ever dramatically broken up with an ex, only to find, to your miserable disbelief, that they keep popping…

The joy of receiving Christmas cards – even from people I loathe

7 December 2025 5:15 pm

These days I barely know what my own handwriting looks like; about my friends, the knowledge is all but lost.…

HMS Prince of Wales is not yet the finished product

7 December 2025 4:30 pm

Huge crowds of locals, plus families and friends of the crew, greeted the return home of the nation’s flagship aircraft…

What are Ukrainian children doing in North Korea?

7 December 2025 4:30 pm

The regime of North Korea has continued to exploit the war in Ukraine to spread its propaganda. This week we…

The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection

7 December 2025 2:29 am

Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…

Scottish Tory peer joins Reform

7 December 2025 1:42 am

To Falkirk, where Nigel Farage has flown ahead of the Holyrood elections – to announce another big name member of…

Paris is a city afraid

6 December 2025 11:51 pm

The New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host…

Until Truss faces her enemies, she remains an irrelevance

6 December 2025 11:05 pm

Liz Truss is back. The ex-prime minister hosted a new current affairs show last night on Just The News, a…

Tommy Robinson wants to put ‘Christ back into Christmas’? No, thanks

6 December 2025 5:30 pm

So Tommy Robinson is inviting us all to have Christmas with him. The far-right activist has announced that there will…