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Reform tops Spectator poll tracker

7 February 2025 4:09 am

Nigel Farage’s Reform party are now out in front at the top of The Spectator data hub’s poll tracker. The latest update…

Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?

7 February 2025 3:05 am

Now that the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced for his horrific crimes, we can try to understand how…

Kemi Badenoch is leading her party in the right direction on migration

7 February 2025 3:03 am

Since becoming Conservative leader in November, Kemi Badenoch has taken a restrained approach to saying what she’d do if she…

Watch: Tory MP blasts ‘secretive’ assisted dying process

7 February 2025 1:44 am

Back to the assisted dying bill, which has been at the centre of controversy since it came into being. As…

Donald Trump is liberating the US from the transgender madness

7 February 2025 1:04 am

I thought Donald Trump was a woman-hater? The Guardian told us he’s a ‘far-right misogynist’ whose return to the White…

Why the Bank of England is cutting interest rates

7 February 2025 12:20 am

The Bank of England has cut interest rates for the third time since the inflation crisis, taking the base rate…

Cracking down on Facebook won’t stop teenagers being radicalised

7 February 2025 12:15 am

I’ve yet to meet an oncologist, thank God. But if I did turn up to be told I had cancer…

Britain shouldn’t wait for America to ban TikTok

7 February 2025 12:12 am

TikTok’s success provides a striking example of Western complacency towards its own survival. After a decade shaped by the disruptive…

Sorry Nigel, but Rayner is right to delay local elections

6 February 2025 11:17 pm

I am sure that Nigel Farage would love the opportunity to embarrass Labour and the Tories as much as he…

Ed Miliband rapped for his rudeness

6 February 2025 10:51 pm

Oh dear. It seems that the new Labour government is rapidly developing a reputation for rudeness. Whether it’s Bridget Phillipson’s…

Labour lose a member every ten minutes in exodus

6 February 2025 10:47 pm

When it rains for the Labour lot, it pours. It has emerged that Sir Keir Starmer’s party has become so…

It is time for Grenfell Tower to come down

6 February 2025 10:36 pm

The government’s decision to demolish the remaining hulk of the Grenfell Tower, announced on Wednesday evening by Angela Rayner at…

Will the Tories really kick out low-paid migrants?

6 February 2025 9:10 pm

We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. It is hard when analysing the new Conservative…

Kemi Badenoch makes her move on immigration

6 February 2025 8:21 pm

Kemi Badenoch has finally announced a policy. Ahead of the Labour government’s Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill being debated…

Ireland has failed the victims of Storm Eowyn

6 February 2025 5:46 pm

Roy Keane, one of Ireland’s most famous sons, famously tried to live by the motto, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to…

Trump scores feminist victory with trans sports Executive Order

6 February 2025 9:12 am

File this under sentences that shouldn’t have to be written, but President Donald Trump just signed an executive order barring…

Jolyon Maugham reaches new level of desperation

6 February 2025 4:23 am

Well, well, well. It seems the Good Law Project, founded by Jolyon Maugham of fox-killing infamy, may be rather struggling…

Trump’s Gaza plan is nothing but a mirage

6 February 2025 4:11 am

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, Israelis and Americans have been living in two parallel worlds. Israel’s began with the hostage and ceasefire…

What does – and doesn’t – make sense about Trump’s Gaza plan

6 February 2025 3:54 am

‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip – and we will do a job with it, too’, Donald Trump…

What sets Sweden’s school shooting apart

6 February 2025 2:53 am

Sweden has suffered its worst mass shooting in living memory. On Tuesday, a 35-year-old gunman went to a community college…

Starmer snubs left-wing rebels as only four readmitted

6 February 2025 2:51 am

Well, well, well. It transpires that four MPs suspended by Sir Keir Starmer for rebelling over the two child benefit…

Kemi finally has a good PMQs

6 February 2025 2:46 am

Genuinely, a historic day at PMQs. The plates are shifting. Labour whips spotted that Nigel Farage’s name was on the…

Starmer hits out at Mauritian PM over Chagos comments

6 February 2025 1:38 am

Uh oh. There’s trouble in paradise as it appears the relationship between Sir Keir Starmer and Navin Ramgoolam is becoming…

Kemi let Keir off the hook on Chagos

6 February 2025 12:32 am

This is Keir Starmer’s worst week in politics since last week. With the Chagos deal eliciting criticism in cabinet, the…

Watch: Starmer ducks PMQ on Covid rule-breaking

5 February 2025 11:49 pm

To Westminster, where Prime Minister’s Questions is in full swing. Sir Keir Starmer has delivered yet another tutorial in how…