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Junior doctors’ strikes are good for my wallet – but totally avoidable
Until Tuesday, I’m once again working as a junior doctor: trying to remember how to take blood, print labels, and…
Police and Crime Commissioners failed to hold useless officers to account
Few will mourn the loss of Police and Crime Commissioners following the news that the government intends their abolition in…
Labour is coming for your bicycle
As the recently departed Norman Tebbit would attest, there has long been a connection between bicycles and jobs, particularly for…
The attack on the Heritage Foundation is an attack on MAGA
It’s Thursday morning as I write. Has The Wall Street Journal weighed in with another attack on Kevin Roberts yet, the besieged president of the Heritage Foundation? No?…
Good riddance to Police and Crime Commissioners
So farewell then, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs). The government has just announced that this weak and useless experiment in…
Will Disney strike a deal to end its YouTube TV blackout?
A war has taken over media coverage. No, not one of actual consequence. This war, however, is imminently affecting your…
Nuclear Anglesey is something to celebrate
On the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales sits Wylfa nuclear power station. For 44 years, until its final reactor…
The Epstein files continue to haunt Donald Trump
The main thing that has made the Epstein files seem politically (as opposed to morally) significant is that Donald Trump…
Has Rachel Reeves crashed the economy?
If Rachel Reeves was hoping for a glimmer of good news in today’s GDP figures, she has been left disappointed.…
Why does the American right take itself so seriously?
The American right has a problem: it can’t stop talking about itself. Commentators, academics and journalists of what used to…
A decade after Bataclan, France is more divided than ever
Ten years ago today, Islamist terrorists massacred 130 people in a coordinated attack across Paris. It was the heaviest loss…
Why Taiwan matters to Japan
It was only a matter of time before Japan’s Iron Lady would be targeted by China. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi…
Gavin Newsom flies to UN climate summit
“We’re in Brazil,” California Gavin Newsom said. “One of our great trading partners. One of the world’s great democracies. I…
The new Epstein Files are no smoking gun
The House Oversight Committee released some Jeffrey Epstein emails this morning, and, sure enough, Donald Trump is in the Epstein…
Polanski should be afraid of TikTok
There are few sights more unsettling than a politician trying to get ‘down with the kids’. Last week it was…
Will the prince formerly known as Andrew appear before Congress?
Amidst all the ceremony and gravity of Britain’s Remembrance Day service on Sunday, one salient fact could not be ignored.…
Keir Starmer can’t even commit governmental suicide
It’s not often the Prime Minister gets a derisive laugh from the House of Commons for telling them that he…
Inside the BBC’s impartiality meltdown
As I watched Tim Davie and Samir Shah’s all-staff call on Tuesday, I became increasingly bemused and frustrated. It was impossible…
The Waspi women don’t deserve a penny
Worry not, dear taxpayer, there are more bills for you to pay. Not only must you pay for the lockdown…
Flashback: Streeting predicts he will be PM
Well that was jolly fun. Kemi Badenoch gave Keir Starmer an almighty pasting at PMQs, predictably lacerating him over the…
Only Wes Streeting came out well from PMQs
Who won PMQs this week? Not Kemi Badenoch, nor Keir Starmer for that matter. In fact, the real winner wasn’t…
A ban on animal testing is long overdue
I was 12 years of age and mooching along Putney high street when someone thrust into my hand a leaflet…
The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelensky
A solid gold toilet and cupboards loaded with bagfuls of €200 bills are among the treasures linked to the prominent…
Trump is creating a political Frankenstein
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump depicted himself as synonymous with winning. “We’re gonna win so much,” he said, “you…
‘Mamdanimaniacs’ are fleecing themselves
Zohran Mamdani’s victory came as little surprise. On both the left and right comparisons to the 2008 presidential election abound;…
