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Singapore-style repression has come to Britain
In September 2022, I came to the UK in the hope of leaving behind an overbearing and censorious state. In…
The tide is turning against firework displays
News headlines about a Labour council banning fireworks to avoid upsetting baby pandas are certainly eye-catching. It’s true that Edinburgh…
Corbyn-Sultana party to launch Scottish branch
The new party of the left has got off to a pretty shaky start. It doesn’t have a proper name,…
Bridget Phillipson is motivated by spite
There are few more irritating features of the modern apparatchik’s lexicon than ‘lived experience’. It implies the existence of some…
Why is the state so obsessed with speech crimes?
A new phrase to have arrived in earnest this year has been ‘two-tier’ justice, relating to the perceived government and…
Home Office seeks to appeal High Court migrant hotel decision
It’s the issue that has dominated the week: hotels housing asylum seekers. On Tuesday, the High Court granted a temporary…
Meet the man putting hundreds of England flags up around York
Over the last few weeks, Brits across the country have been adorning streetlights and roundabouts with Union Jacks and St…
Benjamin Netanyahu is getting desperate
As the IDF announced the imminent mobilisation of some 80,000 reservists in preparation for the decisive battle to seize Gaza…
The unions will regret their Autumn of Discontent
Just how thick are the public sector unions? The RMT’s announcement of a week-long strike on the London Underground in…
How parliament is weaponised against Reform UK
A recent trend has emerged at Prime Ministers’ Questions. Each week, after Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch have had their…
The BBC’s Israel problem needs investigating
When the BBC was forced to admit that a woman it featured as a starving victim of the Gaza war…
The chilling impact of Germany’s new self-ID law
The leopard-print dress, earrings, and lipstick are quintessentially feminine. The thick handlebar moustache and neck tattoos, somewhat less so. The…
The Democratic Party is now messianic
The New York Times recently announced that Democrats face a “voter registration crisis.” With its delicate, frilly font, the Times…
Tory MSP quits over party’s ‘reactionary politics’
The Scottish Conservatives aren’t having the best time of it at the moment. In more bad news for the blues,…
London’s tube strike is being driven by greed
You almost have to admire the RMT – they are a trade union from central casting. From Bob Crow to…
A presidential pizza delivery service
The excited word went out late Thursday afternoon that President Trump was going to do an evening ridealong with the…
Trump’s $500 million fine wasn’t justice
The New York Appellate Division’s decision to overturn the half-billion-dollar civil fraud penalty against Donald Trump should not be seen…
What Lewis Goodall gets wrong about inheritance tax
Do you want to live in a world in which you are forbidden from giving things, such as your time,…
What’s the point of nationalising our steel plants?
We already have Great British Energy, and of course Great British Rail. It now looks as very soon we will…
Zohran Mamdani’s politics of entitlement
Zohran Mamdani’s presumptive victory will make history: if elected in November, he will become New York’s first Muslim and first…
Cash in a bag? We’ll miss you, Eric Adams
If Eric Adams were a normal incumbent New York City Mayor, he’d have a decent chance of winning re-election against…
Does Trump’s handshake deal with the EU put America first?
What’s really at stake in these trade deals? That is what we are slowly discovering as Donald Trump’s handshakes with…
More people blame Tories than Labour for migrant hotels
Migrant hotels have been the talk of the week after the High Court granted Epping Forest district council a temporary…
GCSE English language isn’t fit for purpose
Today is GCSE results day, and as ever that is cause for celebration: one in five entries got at least…
The small boats are a national security emergency
New immigration data published today has only reinforced what many have known for some time – the current government strategy…
