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Help, I’ve become a news junkie!
I’ve always been something of a news addict, but recent events in America and Ukraine have turned me into the…
Vegans shouldn’t be afraid of condemning Halal slaughter
An animal rights activist has exposed extreme cruelty at a slaughterhouse in Arley, Warwickshire. Joey Carbstrong’s secretly recorded footage shows staff slamming…
Matt Wrack will be a hardline teaching union boss
It has a whiff of the old trailer for Jaws 2, the one where viewers were disabused of the idea…
What’s the point of foreign aid?
The UK signed up to a UN target of spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on aid way back in…
Should the Scottish Tories ignore the Reform threat?
What do the Tories do with a problem like Reform? Kemi Badenoch’s party in Westminster has some time to consider…
Will the EU ever get tough on defence?
European leaders are in Brussels today for an emergency summit on defence, and the future of both Ukraine and the…
Watch: Tice forgets names of Reform defectors
Oh dear. Poor Richard Tice is the latest politician to have an embarrassing memory lapse. During his first trip to…
A tribute to Blair Wallace, a hero of the Troubles
The names of leading republicans like Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Bobby Sands are well known, but how many in…
NHS Scotland: call bearded trans staff ‘women’
It seems that NHS Scotland still hasn’t learned the lessons from the Sandie Peggie furore. Now it turns out that…
Trump staffers are ‘mid-tier’ and ‘abject,’ says Michael Wolff
Who would have thought that Michael Wolff would have another book about Donald Trump in him? UK Books editor Sam…
Is Reform serious about stopping the boats?
On no issue are Britain’s established political parties so compromised as on efforts to stop illegal immigrants gatecrashing our borders…
Rupert Lowe’s warning shot to Nigel Farage
There is a striking interview in today’s Daily Mail between Andrew Pierce and Rupert Lowe. The Reform MP is known for speaking…
How the Democrats fell into Trump’s trap
Fox News’s Brit Hume, one of America’s most respected political analysts, and a man more given to wry scepticism than…
Will Hamas take Trump’s Gaza ultimatum seriously?
‘“Shalom Hamas” means Hello and Goodbye – You can choose.’ So began Donald Trump’s furious social media post, an ultimatum wrapped…
Trump’s pausing of intelligence sharing will hit Ukraine hard
The United States’s decision to suspend all intelligence sharing with Kyiv is a less visible but almost as serious and…
Macron’s late-night address will infuriate Trump and Vance
Emmanuel Macron spoke to his people last night in a television address and told them that the future of Ukraine…
Could ethnic minority criminals soon find it easier to avoid jail?
Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, has accused his Labour counterpart Shabana Mahmood of not believing in ‘equality under the…
The Huw Edwards BBC pay saga shows how ridiculous the licence fee is
Did anyone really expect Huw Edwards to return the £200,000 he ‘earned’ – or, more correctly, was paid – between…
Why are the Democrats so eager to lose the trans sports debate?
The Democrats are hellbent on handing President Trump win after win when it comes to the issue of biological men…
The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home to roost
The strangest thing happened last night: the Democratic Party, which has built its success in recent years thanks almost entirely…
Trump can’t override everything
‘There are judges in Jerusalem,’ Menachem Begin is reputed to have proclaimed, following a court ruling which he believed vindicated one…
What does the SNP exodus mean for the party’s 2026 line-up?
There is little over a year to go until the 2026 Holyrood election and Scottish party selection processes are underway.…
What is Israel’s plan for Syria?
Israeli leaders recently made clear that the IDF’s current military deployment into south-west Syria is not intended as a stop-gap…
Why is the UK economy stalling?
Giving evidence to the Treasury Select Committee this afternoon, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey doubled down on a point…
As US border crossings fall, UK small boats hit record highs
Small boat crossings since the start of the year are at a record level. Yesterday 326 migrants arrived, bringing this…
