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Flashback: Rayner hits out at tax avoidance
If there are two things Angela Rayner can’t stand, it’s Tories (previously labelled scum) and tax avoiders. So Tories avoiding…
Judge rules that asylum seekers can stay put in Epping hotel
Asylum seekers will be allowed to stay at the Bell Hotel in Epping after the Court of Appeal lifted a…
Only a fool won’t welcome the NHS chickenpox vaccine rollout
It’s rare that any government – not least Keir Starmer’s – does something to which there can be no even…
Robin Westman and the unstoppable tide of ‘slop violence’
On Wednesday, doing my laundry, I decided to turn on the TV for the first time in decades. Breaking news:…
What the Bell Hotel case reveals about two-tier Labour
It’s a mark of the absurd legalism of Britain’s political system that after a month of fierce protests and years…
Rayner’s stamp duty saving could cost her
Angela Rayner’s living arrangements are causing the Deputy Prime Minister a headache. The Daily Telegraph has today splashed on claims that Rayner…
A dual crisis is looming for France
Financial crises are often linked to a political crisis. On 8 September, the French government will submit itself to a…
Topshop’s return doesn’t mean the high street is safe
You probably won’t see Kate Moss gossiping with a Spice Girl or two by the changing rooms, but for anyone…
Why Rachel Reeves will keep designing terrible taxes
I suspect most of us long ago gave up on expecting any humility from our politicians – indeed, the less…
Trump’s big Bolivia opportunity
After nearly two decades of reign over Bolivia, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party was banished at the ballot box…
How Democrats failed Minneapolis
What happens after an unspeakable tragedy? One that comes on an idyllic late August day in Minneapolis that signaled the…
Reeves’s glum Budget briefings are hurting the economy
Rachel Reeves’s error before last autumn’s Budget might have been written off as the act of a ministerial rookie. She…
Was the Minneapolis shooting an anti-Catholic hate crime?
‘Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,’ said Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, standing near the scene…
Farage’s ECHR plans risk destroying the Union with Ireland
‘They’re tearing this country apart.’ I heard it in a pub last week. A man, with the light blue of…
The folly of blaming boomers for France’s financial crisis
Ministers are packing up their offices. Emmanuel Macron’s government, desperate to shift the narrative and rally support ahead of its…
Muriel Bowser’s praise for Donald Trump
Mayor Muriel Bowser has found herself in the middle of a political tightrope – and it’s one that many Democrats…
The unstoppable rise of Send
As students go back to school this September, headteachers across the country are being forced to confront a system in…
Taylor Swift: queen of the normies?
Politicos used to know how to take the temperature of the nation. They could talk to their cab driver. They…
Why has Putin gone after the British Council in Kyiv?
Is Moscow targeting European institutions in Kyiv in the hope of ‘sabotaging peace’ as Keir Starmer has claimed? Putin probably…
Man Utd vs Grimsby is what football should be about
Poor old Ruben Amorim. The sight of the hapless Manchester United manager cowering in the Blundell Park dugout seemingly praying…
Rylan is a sign the immigration debate is shifting
I’ve always been quite fond of Rylan Clark. No, that isn’t quite true – when his terrifyingly toothsome grin appeared…
A fifth of MPs’ questions now ‘carded’
The House of Commons returns next week – and not a moment too soon for some in government. After a…
Murder of the innocents in Minneapolis
For the second time in two years, a deranged assassin has committed a mass shooting at a Christian school in America. Like Audrey Hale, Robin Westman identified as transgender and once…
Ed Davey’s pathetic Gaza boycott
Ed Davey has built an entire political career on pratfalls, water slides and staged wipe-outs, like a children’s entertainer who…
Ed Davey to boycott Trump’s state banquet
Buckingham Palace has endured its fair share of shocks and crises over the years. But last night, His Majesty was…
