Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘tell-some-but-not-all’ memoir
The Karine humiliation routine The media is piling on former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s “tell-some-but-not-all” memoir Independent. Matt Taibbi called the book…
Autopen report: Biden was a puppet president
Yesterday the House Oversight Committee released an extraordinary 91-page document called “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion and Deception in…
Tories throw kitchen sink at two-way Reform race
To Barnet, where a council by-election will take place on Thursday. Former councillor Joshua Conway lost his Hendon ward seat…
Trump’s Ballroom will make America great
There is nothing like the thrill of getting a White House invitation. Even though I worked there at the time,…
Why was Steven Soderbergh’s Star Wars film rejected?
Ever so often, a film project – especially one that never ended up happening – emerges into the public domain…
In Georgetown, the scariest part of Halloween is the virtue-signaling
Halloween has never been my favorite holiday, but as I was warned when we moved here last November, in Georgetown…
Kruger: Pirate ship Reform has an ill-disciplined crew
Another day, another Reform press conference. Today the central London meet-up saw former Conservative MP-turned-defector Danny Kruger take to the…
Prisons shouldn’t rely on migrant labour
Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, has a habit of speaking difficult truths which senior civil servants might wish…
Andy Burnham attacks Starmer (again)
Andy Burnham is back. After his humiliation at Labour conference, the Mayor of Greater Manchester has returned, hawking his conscience…
Is Keir Starmer right to sell Typhoon jets to Turkey?
Sir Keir Starmer is proving to be an unlucky prime minister. This week began with a demonstration of his haplessness.…
Labour polls at record low
When it rains for the Labour lot, it pours. Today’s YouGov poll for the Times shows Nigel Farage’s Reform UK…
Kamala 2028 by default?
Kamala D. Harris, the career mediocrity who fell backward into a major party presidential nomination before ceding every swing state…
Hamas’s hostage remains deception is a new low
The grotesque return of a body part falsely presented as one of Israel’s remaining hostages marks a new low in…
A tariff alliance won’t stop Britain’s steel industry collapsing
The British steel industry has been staggering from one crisis to another for the whole of this year. Half of…
Should this teacher really have been struck off?
Alex Lloyd, a former teacher and head of sixth form in Bournemouth, has been drummed out of the profession for…
Farage’s parliamentary grooming gang inquiry won’t work
Nigel Farage’s call this week for parliament to seize control of the grooming-gangs inquiry sounds superficially compelling. The government’s statutory…
Why did Ontario antagonise Donald Trump?
The on-again, off-again relationship between Canada and the US is off-again, again. In the latest chapter of this perpetual saga,…
It’s time for King Charles to get tough with Andrew
One of the many horrors of the Prince Andrew scandal is the way that, ever since it worsened a now…
Rachel Reeves is doing her best to paralyse the housing market
We are still four weeks away from the Budget and already we have had virtually every tax rise floated before…
Is the rise of Reform unstoppable?
The rise of Reform UK has at times seemed to defy gravity. From winning four million votes at the general…
Labour is living in a fantasy Britain
What imaginary country does Labour’s new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, live in? When Powell was crowned as the official thorn-in-the-side…
Only honesty can kill the rise of Germany’s AfD
As Germany braces for economic hardship and the mounting danger of confrontation with Russia, its leaders appear preoccupied with the…
Hold the PHON! One Nation is on the rise!
The announced change in name from Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) to simply ‘One Nation’ is significant. Political parties that…
No freedom without responsibility
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is right about the decline of courage in the West




