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Germany’s immigration election is heating up
These are dramatic days in the usually dull world of German politics. Last Wednesday, midway through a fiercely fought federal…
Canada’s tariff reprieve isn’t a victory for Trudeau
US President Donald Trump’s long-standing threat to enact 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico didn’t materialise yesterday. Both…
Who cares about the cold old?
When I was a child, we lived in a two-up, two-down terraced slum in Walthamstow, East London with bombsites at…
The voice coach row reveals how Keir Starmer will come unstuck
The news that the Prime Minister Keir Starmer – the adenoidal android – has employed a voice coach is simply…
How John Swinney changes his stripes
Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more…
Rory Stewart is no match for JD Vance
I was highly amused to see that JD Vance has administered a right old ‘fagging’ – or whatever public school…
Why is Spain so anti-Trump?
Spain has been receiving some lavish praise of late in the British press. ‘Booming Spain is on track to a…
Elon Musk is right about USAID
I suspect few people outside the Washington nexus had ever heard of the United States Agency for International Development, or…
Reforming Ofsted won’t fix Britain’s problem schools
The proportion of children staying away from school may be alarming – one in five – but the proportion of…
Burning a Quran shouldn’t be a crime
England ditched its blasphemy laws back in 2008. No longer would it be an offence to engage in ‘contemptuous, reviling,…
Has Ukraine just carried out another assassination in Moscow?
The Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails) apartment complex in Moscow’s north-western Shchukino suburb bills itself as an exclusive place to live,…
Foreign Office struggles to mind its Mandarin
The Foreign Office was once described as a ‘palace of dreams’, yet these days it seems increasingly like a graveyard…
Did Starmer breach Covid rules?
Oh dear. It seems No. 10 aren’t keen to go anywhere near suggestions that Sir Keir Starmer might have broken…
Bridget Phillipson tries to rebrand her education reforms
Education has been in the spotlight in recent weeks, as the government’s Schools Bill makes it way through parliament. So…
The BBC always knew that Russell Brand was a lout
Several women who worked with Russell Brand at the BBC have revealed that they were too scared to make official…
Will Britain get dragged into Trump’s trade war?
North America is now engaged in a full-blown trade war. Markets are reacting. Japan’s Nikkei was the first to indicate…
SNP mull ban on household cats
Here’s one to make you paws for thought: SNP ministers are considering a ban on pet cats, in a bid…
Even the Green party is shunning Stonewall
Not one major UK government department is still signed up to Stonewall’s Diversity Champions Programme. At long last, Stonewall’s toxic influence…
Europe can’t win a trade war against the US
It will hit back immediately. It will target the industries that will hurt the most. And it won’t be bullied…
The AI industry has been given a taste of its own medicine
Life comes at you fast, eh? Only a few weeks ago I was grumbling in this very slot about the way in…
Starmer is falling into the EU’s trap
No doubt Keir Starmer wants us to think he is being ‘grown up’ in accepting an invitation to dinner at…
Starmer’s Brussels charm offensive is a risky business
How far will the Labour government’s European reset go? This is the question being asked in Westminster as Keir Starmer…
Europe is feeling the strain of mass immigration
Britain can’t cope, that was the response of Nigel Farage to last week’s disclosure by the Office for National Statistics that…
Did Keir Starmer’s voice coach really count as a Covid ‘key worker’?
Who knew that being a voice coach qualified for ‘key worker’ status during the pandemic lockdowns? It has been revealed…
Why Donald Trump should care about Georgia
President Trump hasn’t just inherited the problem of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Somewhere in the handover is a memo on…
