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The Guardian’s desperate smears about Farage’s school days
Nigel Farage is the perfect folk devil for the British liberal left. He is robustly patriotic, cheerfully irreverent about modern…
John Major is shouting at the void
They were John Major’s kind of people, the audience in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre in the Cheng Kin Ku Building…
Even Labour MPs are tiring of Starmer
With the country looking forward to Rachel Reeves’s big moment next week – in much the same way you would…
America needs an ‘all-of-the-above’ approach to energy
While the House of Representatives has understandably been quiet during the government shutdown, not everyone has been idle. While most…
Zelensky must get a grip of his government
Vladimir Putin’s hopes of wearing Ukraine down in a war of attrition are no longer far-fetched. The country feels fragile,…
Is Trump trying to strike a fresh deal on Ukraine?
With fresh wind in his sails after his success brokering a somewhat fragile peace in Gaza, Donald Trump has once…
Russia’s spy ship is a warning to Britain – but are we ready?
As a Russian spy ship lurks on the edge of British waters, Defence Secretary John Healey had a message for…
Starmer did even worse than Badenoch at PMQs
Neither Kemi Badenoch nor Keir Starmer performed very well at Prime Minister’s Questions: both fluffed their lines early on. Badenoch…
Watch: Labour minister’s bizarre Chagos comments
Well, well, well. Baroness Chapman of Darlington – the international development minister – turned up to the House of Lords…
Europe can’t fix Ukraine’s cash crisis
Who will pay for Ukraine’s war effort now the Trump administration has turned off the financial taps? European leaders have…
Scotland’s win showed the beauty of international football
Scotland have qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 28 years. I can hardly believe that I…
Inflation is down, but it’s little relief for Reeves
For the first time since May, the Bank of England has inched a little closer to its 2 per cent…
Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about Epstein
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on…
Labour leadership plotters should be careful what they wish for
Take it from me: leadership challenges are the beginning of the end. Barely twelve months after Conservative feuding led to…
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
Before Nicki Minaj spoke at the United Nations today, Ambassador Mike Waltz referred to her as “the greatest female recording artist” and a “principled individual who…
Badenoch guns for the Guardian
It was all guns blazing from Kemi Badenoch today. The Tory leader has clashed before with the Guardian – most…
Europe’s leaders are finally waking up on immigration – but is it too late?
The impressive shift in the terms of trade of the immigration debate in the last 24 hours proves one unlikely proposition:…
Inside the BBC’s Trump-bashing Reith Lecture
A few weeks ago, I received an invitation from Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, to listen to Rutger Bregman deliver…
Helen Webberley is terrifying
Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology…
The SNP have crossed the line on abortion
For years, the SNP has relied on a particular political alchemy. It takes on extremely liberal social positions to appeal…
No, Shabana Mahmood isn’t far right
We’ve become grimly accustomed to people throwing around the phrase ‘far right’. But seeing it flung at Labour home secretary…
China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
For all the talk about artificial intelligence and quantum supremacy, the fate of civilizations still depends on breakfast. ChatGPT can’t…
The net migration debacle is a blunder too far for the ONS
Another day at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), another apparent data mishap – this time on net migration figures.…
What Trump’s Gaza peace plan means for Israel
This may not be the conclusion Israel imagined when it launched its campaign in Gaza. Not all the hostage bodies…
How Trump could attack Venezuela
President Trump has assembled the largest naval force in the Caribbean since the Cold War. How will it be used?…
