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Wes Streeting’s ‘care plans’ are old news

7 January 2025 6:02 am

There is much that is good in today’s NHS elective recovery announcement: changes to incentives for trusts so that they…

Justin Trudeau was Canada’s worst ever prime minister

7 January 2025 3:48 am

Canada’s long national nightmare is finally coming to an end. Justin Trudeau has announced he is resigning as leader of the Liberal party…

Labour apologise for graphic song use in latest TikTok

7 January 2025 3:44 am

It’s not been a great start to the year for Sir Keir Starmer’s army. As if poor poll ratings and…

What has the BBC got against Tommy Robinson?

7 January 2025 3:12 am

Do you know, I have noticed a certain thawing in the BBC’s attitude to the American entrepreneur, Elon Musk. I…

Labour isn’t doing enough to win over Scotland

7 January 2025 3:01 am

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney began 2025 in the traditional manner – with a chorus of Auld Lang Syne. Speaking…

Elon Musk is just one of Labour’s many headaches

7 January 2025 2:39 am

It’s not terribly helpful for Keir Starmer that Elon Musk is creating polls on X, asking his 210 million followers…

Quarter of Labour voters suffer buyer’s remorse

7 January 2025 1:43 am

Dear oh dear. There’s more bad news for the Labour lot as new polling by More in Common for LBC…

Labour’s hypocrisy over Jess Phillips attacks

7 January 2025 1:17 am

After Elon Musk continued to lambast the Labour lot over the weekend, Sir Keir Starmer this morning used a press…

Is it time to lay off Tulip Siddiq?

7 January 2025 12:58 am

We all have generous aunties, right? My own once let me live rent-free in her London flat for several months…

Musk fall-out is Reform’s Clause IV moment

6 January 2025 11:37 pm

Another day, another UK volley from the one-man media universe that is Elon Musk. At 07.51 this morning, Musk posted…

Foreign national crime stats show we have an immigration problem

6 January 2025 11:24 pm

Britain, as we know, is a country where sex offences are on the rise because toxic males are having their…

Why Elon Musk cares about Britain’s sinking reputation

6 January 2025 11:19 pm

Diaspora politics is a funny old thing, a form of loyalty that is often coloured by nostalgia and deeply unconnected…

Keir Starmer defends his record on grooming gangs

6 January 2025 11:10 pm

Keir Starmer’s speech this morning served as a neat microcosm of his six-month premiership. There he was, all primed to…

Starmer’s corruption minister refers herself to standards adviser

6 January 2025 11:06 pm

Back to the curious case of Tulip Siddiq, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate who also works as the…

Grooming gang row overshadows Keir Starmer’s NHS speech

6 January 2025 11:04 pm

Keir Starmer spent a significant time this morning arguing that the last thing we need is another review and report…

Ex-SNP sex pest slammed after landing top charity role

6 January 2025 10:40 pm

To Scotland, where outrage is spreading after news that a former sex pest politician has landed a top charity job.…

Starmer hits back at Musk

6 January 2025 9:48 pm

Elon Musk has had a busy weekend, blasting the UK government over Britain’s grooming gang scandal and even turning on…

Justin Trudeau’s rule could end this week

6 January 2025 9:32 pm

The next 48 hours could well spell the end of Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister – the last major…

Does Nigel Farage need Elon Musk?

6 January 2025 7:59 pm

What a difference a month makes. In December, Nigel Farage was tweeting about his meeting with Elon Musk and the…

The EU wants to cripple French farmers

6 January 2025 7:46 pm

Another year, another protest. French farmers are at it again. France’s Coordination Rurale trade union is calling for another round of massive…

Why we should be worried about Labour’s ‘Islamophobia’ plans

6 January 2025 6:20 pm

Is there a problem with Islamophobia? The problem is the word ‘Islamophobia’ itself. What does it actually mean, and what…

Why is Gisele Pelicot a hero but not the girls of Rochdale?

6 January 2025 5:23 pm

A poll in France has named Gisele Pelicot as the country’s person of the year for the courage and dignity she displayed…

Elon Musk is wrong to slam Farage

6 January 2025 6:11 am

Elon Musk is a man of tremendous gifts, to put it mildly. He recently caught a rocket between some chopsticks,…

Don’t judge Syria’s new rulers yet

6 January 2025 3:30 am

Some people went mad when Ahmed al-Sharaa (you might know him as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the commander of Hayat Tahrir…

Runners and riders: next Reform leader

6 January 2025 3:15 am

Well, that didn’t last long. Just 19 days after Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were snapped beaming together at Mar-a-Lago,…