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Can Mike Ashley save Harvey Nichols?
It would be easy to make fun of the takeover of Harvey Nichols by the Sports Direct founder, Mike Ashley,…
One hot summer won’t silence us climate change sceptics
Hugo Rifkind – formerly of this parish, now a columnist in the Times – has written a Jeremiad blaming climate…
Watch: Tice flounders over Farage’s Clacton no-show
‘That’s nothing to do with his safety, he just doesn’t want to stand next to a bin!’ @NickFerrariLBC isn’t satisfied…
The two lessons from Farage’s Clacton win
The result in Clacton is more evidence for my thesis that voters are so entrenched in their attitudes towards Nigel…
Clacton shows how unserious Reform UK still is
First it was Nigel versus the establishment. Now it’s Nigel versus the police (although perhaps they’re part of the same…
Clacton has strengthened Nigel Farage
There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but…
Farage’s Clacton victory won’t save him from more scrutiny
Nigel Farage has been re-elected in Clacton, comfortably winning the self-inflicted by-election that Britain’s major parties chose to boycott. The…
Burnham should bin his idea to ban disposable BBQs
Cooking has held little – actually, no – appeal during the steamy days and tropical nights of the past five…
Why does the left hate gambling?
There was some confusion earlier this week when the government announced a ‘crackdown’ on betting shops, as part of its…
How Labour’s marriage-lite revolution could have screwed over Taylor Swift
If marriage is ‘just a piece of paper’, Labour’s latest proposals to revolutionise family law raise an awkward question. Why…
What is the point of predicting A-Level grades?
Today is A-level results day – and yet another reminder of how bizarre and backwards our education system still is…
The truth about America’s Democratic base
Tuesday evening saw the second polling upset in as many weeks in the Midwest. In Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, David…
It’s no surprise many Britons think migration is ‘mostly bad’
A decade after the Brexit vote, YouGov has conducted a large-scale survey of the nation’s attitudes towards migration. Their work…
AOC and the dishonest business of egg freezing
“All of these men often times who are saying, ‘oh if you haven’t had a kid by 30 like you’re…
Reform puts Vodafone on notice over migrant SIM cards
Vodafone is actively assisting illegal migrants in France to break into Britain. Their CEO earns £10m a year. If they…
Zia Yusuf has become a liability for Reform
Zia Yusuf is a man of remarkable and rare gifts. His parents are immigrants from Sri Lanka who worked in…
Britain’s economy is growing – but not enough
Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his Chancellor John Healey are not having a bad start. Sure, there’s trouble ahead: the…
Where do asylum seekers live in Britain?
Andy Burnham says ‘we cannot have a situation where it’s only the poorest communities in the country’ that house refugees…
Let cyclists pee in public
Demi Vollering, Juliette Berthet and Célia Gery are phenomenal athletes. They are all in the FDJ United-SUEZ cycling team and…
Mike Lindell’s sleepless night
Mike Lindell is not ready to rest his weary head. The MyPillow magnate stepped aside from his bedding business to…
Bribing Scots to stay in the UK won’t work forever
A country is not a fiscal transfer. It can be many things – a loose federation of diverging cultures, a…
Unite members sit out leadership vote
A meagre 10 per cent of Unite members bothered to vote in the union’s election for general secretary. Arch-lefty Sharon…
Andy Burnham is already in a migration muddle
In the run-up to his coup against Sir Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham was sold to wavering Labour MPs as the…
Francesca Hong’s defeat won’t stop the Democratic Socialists
So, at time of writing, it looks as if voters don’t want to cancel Thanksgiving – on balance, at least.…
Do we really all have to ‘play our part’ housing asylum seekers?
Andy Burnham wants ‘all parts of the country…to play their part’. Not because we’re at war, or another pandemic is…
