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The UK censorship files: Jim Jordan’s crusade against Britain
The British Empire may be gone, but there is one area where the UK has not lost its global ambitions:…
Why I left the Conservatives – and joined Reform
There comes a moment for many soldiers – and most politicians – when you realise the battle you think you’re…
Exclusive: Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform
Reform UK has today unveiled its latest defector. Adam Holloway served as the Conservative MP for Gravesham in Kent from…
Tsunami hits Hawaii and US mainland
Tsunami alerts were triggered this morning across the Pacific after an earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake, one…
The Online Safety Act is plumbing new depths of stupidity
As anyone who has endured a pointless argument on the internet probably knows, there’s a decidedly useful rule for such…
The Online Safety Act and Labour’s ‘ancient’ institutions
After Reform promised to repeal the Online Safety Act, it didn’t take long for Labour to defend internet censorship. ‘And…
UNESCO is America’s toxic ex
“I’m having financial problems,” a long-ago ex-girlfriend desperately messaged me some years after our third breakup, before tossing a convoluted…
Trump suggests he could become Scotland’s next First Minister
Watch out, John Swinney – Donald Trump is, it seems, eyeing up your job. During the US President’s trip up…
Starmer’s Palestine U-turn shows how dangerous he is
We often think of Sir Keir Starmer as the dull bureaucrat, all at sea in politics – a Prime Minister…
Watch: Gary Neville turns his guns on Starmer
Back to Gary Neville, the left-wing right-back who has never met a camera he didn’t like. Just when we thought he’d…
Newsom won’t create abundance
With great fanfare, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed “historic” legislative package designed to “advance an abundance agenda.” It’s a…
The horror of police involvement in the grooming gangs
However bad you think the rape gang scandal is, it keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the BBC published a detailed investigation…
Few Brits believe minor crimes are properly policed
It’s the second week of Reform’s six-week ‘Lawless Britain’ campaign and there has been some back and forth about whether…
Has the IMF changed its tune on Brexit?
Given the perilous condition of Britain’s public finances, perhaps we ought to start taking the IMF and its World Economic…
Starmer’s Palestine policy is perverse
Keir Starmer’s declaration that Britain will recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel takes ‘substantive steps’ to end the war in…
The Met must fix London’s street crime crisis
It’s a statement of the bleeding obvious: London is in the grip of a street crime epidemic. Between 2021 and 2024,…
As a gay man, let me tell you the truth about Section 28
‘As a gay man…’ is a handy signal; in 99 per cent of cases, it tells you that whatever follows…
The US-China trade war is not over yet
Stockholm, Sweden The United States and China have concluded two days of trade negotiations in Stockholm without reaching an agreement…
Trump unleashes the evangelists
The Trump administration issued a memo Monday saying that federal workers are openly allowed to express religious beliefs in the…
Starmer to recognise a Palestinian state
Following a lengthy cabinet meeting this afternoon, No. 10 announced that the UK is prepared to follow France in recognising…
Germany isn’t happy about the EU-US trade deal
The US-EU trade deal has been given a lukewarm reception in Europe. Although the agreement between US president Donald Trump…
Trumpism rules the world
Whatever loopiness there is in Donald Trump’s personality is a loopiness born of isolation. For ten years the history of…
What Labour’s Jimmy Savile attack on Nigel Farage reveals
Nigel Farage is on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. That’s the verdict of Labour Technology Secretary Peter Kyle,…
What Medhi Hasan should have told the New Right
Progressive journalist Mehdi Hasan recently went viral for his “debate” with 20 so-called conservatives on the popular YouTube channel Jubilee.…
Trump is right about North Sea oil
Maybe it is Donald Trump’s way of getting back at Keir Starmer for Labour sending activists to campaign for Kamala…
