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Which party leader is on the road the most?
As local elections loom ever closer, Britain’s intrepid party leaders have taken to the road to pitch themselves far and…
The Golders Green attack is an outrage
When I read the headline – ‘two people stabbed in Golders Green’ – my initial reaction was not one of shock. It was the…
Malcolm Offord and the heresy of achievement
A telling exchange from Tuesday night’s televised debate for the Scottish Parliament elections. Malcolm Offord, businessman and Tory peer turned…
Keir Starmer hasn’t done enough to save himself
The final Prime Minister’s Questions of a parliamentary session is often quite a demob-happy affair with a pantomime atmosphere. Today’s,…
Why is the Barmy Army disowning this Reform candidate?
When it comes to making friends on foreign fields the Barmy Army plants flags of conquest all over the world.…
Róisín Murphy and the corrosiveness of cancel culture in the arts
In her Reith lecture on freedom in 2022, the great Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warned of the ‘unconscionable barbarism’…
The UAE’s Opec exit is about much more than oil
The decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to quit Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, is a seismic…
The state should keep its hands off your pension
The worst thing about the government’s plans to force pension providers to invest their money in particular assets is that…
Katie Lam rules out joining Reform
After Robert Jenrick’s (not entirely) shocking defection to Reform in January, Westminster’s eyes swiftly turned towards one of the Tory…
The end is nigh for Opec
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) choosing to quit the Opec oil cartel after nearly 60 years of membership is, to…
Why are women so anti-nuclear?
When I was a teenager, I became mildly obsessed with The Darwin Awards. The Darwin Awards, in their own words,…
Is ChatGPT losing its shine?
Sam Altman has always been a charmer. At school he revelled in the art of persuasion, joining a school debate…
Was King Charles’s Congress speech a success?
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to…
The Scottish independence lie
For the last 20 years, Scotland has been labouring under a lie. A lie that is so offensive that seemingly…
The US is back in charge of the oil industry
The United States is getting sucked into a conflict in the Middle East, central banks are desperately trying to keep…
The Mamdani idea of the British crown
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York has faced what others might consider awkward moments in office, as when two Islamists, inspired by ISIS, tried to…
The King’s speech: disagreement should not become divorce
The King’s address to Congress was a rare and authoritative statement of national and international interest, delivered from a position…
Starmer’s long goodbye
The slow political death of Sir Keir Starmer continued again today. Westminster must increasingly resemble a torture chamber for the…
British Ambassador torpedoes King’s state visit
Oh dear. Just when you thought a British ambassador to the US couldn’t possibly cause any more grief for Sir…
Watch: Morgan McSweeney’s mea culpa
It’s a blockbuster day in parliament today. To kick things off, we had Philip Barton up pleading ignorance; to close…
Why the Greens have a problem with alcohol
I think the best and most succinct description of the Green party was Tim Stanley’s ‘Stalin with a nose ring’.…
How the Ukraine war could end in revolt
Ukraine and Russia are exhausted. Neither side is close to defeat and yet discontent is growing on both sides. In…
How drug deaths could rise under the Greens
Yesterday, Zack Polanski told Sky News that ‘the war on drugs has clearly failed over and over again. In fact we have…
‘Back to Petroleum’ has paid off for BP
If the energy giant BP’s change of direction over the last year could be summed up in a single phrase,…
Why has Trump turned on India?
President Donald Trump, not someone to let a good insult go to waste, has caused outrage in India after sharing…
