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Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and the commodification of surrogacy
Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, 57, is the man responsible for normalising gay male couples having babies via surrogacy. He is very keen…
What Putin’s Victory Day says about war-time Russia
For the first time in 18 years, Russia’s Victory Day parade will have no tanks. There will be no missile…
Putin’s paranoia was plain to see at Moscow’s Victory Day parade
Thanks to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin could enjoy his Victory Day parade in Moscow safe in the knowledge that no…
What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?
Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the…
The simple truth at the heart of Reform UK’s success
As the scale of Reform’s success in the British local elections became clear, the Reform Member of Parliament Danny Kruger…
Will Labour ever admit that Scottish devolution was a mistake?
If you believe as I do that political stupidity deserves to be punished, you might take satisfaction from the election…
Why is Piers Morgan Uncensored giving conspiracy theories airtime?
After the fourth invitation from Piers Morgan’s team to appear on his Uncensored show, I finally decided it might be time to…
Nigel Farage has inherited Boris Johnson’s Red Wall problem
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is…
The National Trust’s Pokémon hunt is a new low
The catastrophic dumbing-down of the National Trust has plumbed new depths. The latest initiative by the infantilised morons who run…
The most significant local elections for a generation
These feel like the most significant local elections for a generation. It was a potentially historic day for Reform and…
The Kremlin’s secret plans for post-war Russia
A top-level Kremlin policy document discussing post-war political planning and how to neutralize potential ultranationalist discontent has been leaked to…
What happened to the Green wave?
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council…
Farage is the local election winner – again
It was a little before 3 a.m that Nigel Farage sauntered in to the spin room at Millbank Tower, where…
Reform voters will regret turning their back on Kemi Badenoch
Like most people of my age – I’m 66 – I grew up in a time when politics was a…
Reform can thank Starmer for its success
The foremost question Labour party members should be asking themselves this morning, following yesterday’s predicted disastrous showing in the local,…
How dangerous is the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak?
Here we go again, or maybe not. The World Health Organization is reassuring us that the public health risk from…
Hantavirus doesn’t look like the next Covid
Over the past few days, more parts of the press have been reporting that the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV…
Polanski pontificates on Israel (again)
Good old Zack Polanski spent the night before the local elections pontificating once again on – you guessed it –…
Will Ukrainian drones spoil Putin’s Victory Day parade?
Vladimir Putin’s subordinates are bending over backwards to ensure Saturday’s Victory Day parade in Moscow goes ahead smoothly. Mobile internet…
Starmer’s TikTok backfires (again)
Sir Keir Starmer’s desperation to get down with the kids hit new lows in the run up to the local…
Britain’s Potemkin asylum system
The British asylum system is fake. It’s fake because there’s a ‘shadow industry of law firms and advisers… charging thousands…
Trump is clinging to a mirage in the Middle East
Well, well, well. For all the head-scratching that it initially occasioned, President Trump’s hasty abandonment of ‘Project Freedom’ – his…
Kemi savages David Gauke’s knightood
Happy polling day one and all. While the political parties knock up doors, the Financial Times has brought some merriment…
The special relationship between Muslims and Labour is over
Labour is facing a collapse in support among British Muslim voters in this week’s local elections. The votes of many…
Meloni is being haunted by the ghost of Berlusconi
The late Silvio Berlusconi has come back from the dead – momentarily, it is hoped – to torment Italian Prime…
