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How Britain can achieve renewal
Here we are again. Fifty years ago the fashionable view was that Britain was ungovernable. Chancellors wrote their budgets kow-towing…
Prop 50 passed because grifters were scared of losing their grift
While it’s premature for a full autopsy of the No on Prop 50 campaign, the opposition clearly faced structural hurdles…
Far left is the new face of the Democratic Party
If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is…
How to fix Britain’s energy policy
‘If nothing happens, it will be too late’. That’s the dire warning from an academic I spoke to recently in Aberdeen…
Mayor Mamdani will terrify America
Zohran Mamdani is the mayor-elect of New York City, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is champagne drunk…
Democrats win New Jersey governorship with Trump scare tactics
The votes are in – and they’ve shattered any illusion that New Jersey is a swing state. The Democratic Party…
Bill Gates and the rightward shift of the billionaires
To his fellow high priests of the church of climate change, Bill Gates has just committed the ultimate heresy. He…
Marjorie Taylor Greene auditions for The View
Last week, in anticipation of her appearance on The View this morning (or afternoon, depending on your local listings), Congresswoman…
Florence and the Machine is back
It may be coincidence or clever record company marketing, but the two current reigning queens of the British pop music…
It pays to be a bad college-football coach
These days, getting fired is the best thing that can happen to a college-football coach. Hugh Freeze is the latest…
We should mourn the loss of Rome’s medieval towers
The Torre dei Conti, next to Rome’s Forum, partially collapsed yesterday. A construction worker who was carrying out restoration work…
Reform launches its own Research Department
Since returning to politics in May 2024, Nigel Farage has had one central goal: replacing the Conservatives as one of…
What to expect from today’s elections
Americans head to the polls today, with gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and mayoral elections in New York City and Minneapolis. The…
Trump’s nuclear weapons testing is a dangerous idea
It is often difficult to discern the exact meaning of President Trump’s public statements. He does not consider words carefully,…
Bridget Phillipson must not abandon special needs children
Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education, has finally turned her attention back to her brief – and there is…
How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump
Former vice president Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at age 84, loathed Donald Trump. In a 2022 election campaign ad for…
Was Dick Cheney a hero or a villain?
Former US vice president Dick Cheney died last night aged 84. He arrived in Washington as a congressman for Wyoming,…
Badenoch has a new favourite word: work
After Nigel Farage’s address on Reform’s tax plans yesterday and Rachel Reeves’s effort to lay the groundwork for the Budget…
John Lewis’s Christmas advert might be its worst yet
John Lewis’s Christmas advert is back – and this year’s effort is even more mawkish, unfocused and wearying than ever.…
Can the last ‘working person’ in Britain please turn out the lights?
Early morning surprises can be lovely, but not when they involve Rachel Reeves. Probably the last thing anybody wants to…
The rise of anti-democratic human rights
Seventy-five years ago today the European Convention on Human Rights was signed in Rome by the 12 states, including Britain,…
Britain’s stingy state pension is good news
That Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 should be recognised for what it is: good news.…
What does Rachel Reeves really mean that we must all ‘do our bit’?
It is three weeks until the Budget – and Rachel Reeves wants to get her narrative out there. The Chancellor…
Budget tax rises will mark the beginning of the long end for Labour
So just what was the point in dragging political journalists out of bed to be addressed by Rachel Reeves in…
Do black lives still matter?
It was an ethnic massacre so bad that it could be seen from space. Satellites picked up bloodied patches of…
