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Starmer doesn’t have a handle on his job as Prime Minister
Keir Starmer had an appalling performance at Prime Minister’s Questions today. It was summarised very well later in the session…
Is the Coldplay kisscam woman really a victim of sexism?
Remember the Coldplay kisscam couple? Loved-up Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot were caught embracing at a Boston concert, only to…
Should teenagers be vaccinated against meningitis B?
Two people have died of meningitis in Kent: an eighteen year old year 13 student named as Juliette, and an…
I lost the will to live watching The Rest is Politics and Pedro Sánchez
If Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart’s recent interview of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is anything to go by, I…
Angela Rayner’s warning to Shabana Mahmood over migrant crackdown
Shabana Mahmood made an impressive start as Home Secretary. Within her first 100 days, she had set out a tough…
This is how Brexit dies
This is the way that Brexit ends: not with a bang but with a whimpering submission to EU standards on…
Iran hits back at Israel after Larijani’s death
Situation update Missiles were launched from Iran toward Israel overnight, targeting its central and southern regions and triggering nationwide alerts…
A child soldier and Iran’s cult of the suicide bomber
On the outskirts of Teheran, deep within one of the largest graveyards in the world, Behest-e Zahra, is a singular…
How Scotland turned against assisted dying
When the Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP, Liam McArthur, first tabled his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill two…
All the worst people like the ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition
Not worried enough yet by the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’? Here’s another red flag: the mild, nuanced, or…
The chaotic truth about Russia’s internet blackouts
From the modern metropolises of Moscow and St. Petersburg to Arkhangelsk on the permafrosted northern coast and Khabarovsk on the…
Decapitating Iran’s leadership might not topple the mullahs
Iran’s most powerful leaders are being picked off one by one by Israeli and American military strikes. The latest scalp…
Few illnesses are as terrifying as meningitis
Bacterial meningitis has left two young people dead and another fifteen seriously ill following an outbreak linked to a night…
Iran and the crisis in the European mind
The politics of the Iranian war feature an observable gap between interest and action for nearly all parties. The Americans…
Smartphones are making us stupid
For some years now Private Eye’s ‘Dumb Britain’ section has been regaling its readers with examples of contestants giving ridiculous and…
Does Rachel Reeves know anything about AI?
Like Harold Wilson and his ‘white heat of technology’, Rachel Reeves is presumably hoping that blathering on about AI and…
English Tourism Week won’t save the tourist industry
‘English Tourism Week’, which runs until 23 March, kicked off with a jaunty reception in Downing Street. Various ‘celebratory’ and…
Why is America always at war?
Sizable minorities on both the left and the right want America to intervene in fewer foreign conflicts and to exercise…
The illusion of Iranian regime change
Supporters of regime change in Iran have long argued that if the United States and Israel weakened the country’s rulers…
What we get wrong about defence spending
The combined US-Israeli strikes against Iran have displaced the Russia-Ukraine war from the headlines and brought British defence policy into…
Why haven’t the Lib Dems ditched Ed Davey yet?
If Sir Ed Davey’s stunts were ever funny, the joke has long since worn off. At the Lib Dem spring…
The welcome demise of NCP
It will probably come as a surprise to anyone who has paid £10 per hour or more for one of…
Starmer’s lecternmania is out of control
When I woke up yesterday morning, almost the first thing I saw was the announcement that Keir Starmer was to…
Israel blows up Ali Khamenei’s jet
Situation update Israeli forces carried out strikes across Iran over the past 24 hours, hitting targets in Tehran, Shiraz and…
The real reason the Guardian is so hostile to Gail’s
Nothing good has ever followed the words ‘we need to talk’, ‘terms of service update’, or ‘by Jonathan Liew’, and…
