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Cutting taxes isn’t irresponsible
Everyone is supposed to have their 15 minutes of fame. Perhaps I have just had mine, after the contenders for…
Cakeism is Boris Johnson’s true legacy
The smirk on the faces of politicians and journalists when they talk about ‘cakeism’ shows how Boris Johnson degraded public…
End of quote. Repeat the line. Joe Biden can’t go on
How much longer can the global disaster that is Joe Biden’s presidency go on? Surely there comes a point when…
How Love Island killed sex
Love Island’s annual ‘heart race challenge’ – where contestants perform jokily seductive dances on the opposite sex – took place last week,…
The problem with euro-dollar parity
The euro is nearly level with the dollar. It should not matter in theory, because of the relatively low share…
The case for Liz Truss
The past six years have been a turbulent and controversial time in British politics. Through them all, one person consistently…
The desperate drive to be the next Tory leader
There’s a scent in the air around the Tory leadership contest. It is the whiff of desperation. The aroma of…
Is Sunak really a big state believer?
There’s something strange happening in Tory politics. It’s not surprising to see leadership candidates taking special aim at the current…
The problem with being anti-woke
I’m going to do something that will likely annoy you, dear reader: I am going to make an argument about a…
Biden is the emperor with no clothes
The emperor is naked. The public knows it, and they’re finally beginning to speak the obvious truth. The emperor, in…
Who’s backing who? Mordaunt takes second
Only two Tory MPs will make it to the membership for a final election – which is why the number…
The Hunter Biden iCloud leak double-standard
Another day, another deeply compromising story about America’s first son. This weekend, a hacker on the 4chan messageboard claimed to…
Tory leadership race tightens as MP threshold raised
The 1922 Committee has this evening agreed to change the Tory leadership rules so as to raise the threshold of…
Jamie Wallis fled car crash in heels and leather mini skirt
Just because Boris Johnson has gone, don’t expect the legal fines for Tories to go away. Jamie Wallis, the Member…
Of course Rishi Sunak doesn’t have any working-class friends
I see there’s much chortling over the fact that Rishi Sunak once said he had no working-class friends. It was…
Penny Mordaunt and the Tory transgender divide
As war rages in Europe and inflation rockets, the Tory party is tearing itself apart in its hunt for a new…
Could Sunak implode?
There are few positions so perilous as being the frontrunner in a party leadership contest. Just being the heir apparent when…
Are some Tory candidates about to be ruled out?
The Tory leadership contest is a very crowded place – with Liz Truss overnight becoming the tenth candidate to declare…
The fatuous idea that politicians must be ‘in touch’
I was in Hyde Park on Friday watching an open-air Pixies show with very great delight when somewhere between ‘Vamos’…
Live blog: Truss declares, Gove for Kemi, rule change?
MPs are returning to Westminster after a long weekend in their constituencies. What are they returning to? Yesterday, three more candidates…
Who will stand for free speech?
The primary feeling is a sense of dread. The oily scent of torches set aflame is in your nostrils, and…
Liz Truss enters the leadership contest
Liz Truss has become the tenth candidate to enter the Tory leadership race. Announcing her intentions in an op-ed for…
Gove backs Kemi Badenoch for prime minister
Michael Gove has endorsed Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader. Badenoch, who was one of his junior ministers at the Department…
Penny Mordaunt’s trans problem
The Tory leadership contest is yet to officially begin, but things are already turning nasty. As well as reports in…
The Tories are showing Labour how it’s done on diversity
The elephant isn’t just in the room. It is trumpeting loudly but it is greeted with bemusement, denial, or polite…
