Revealed: Lib Dems’ plan for ‘Operation Epsom Fury’
Is any party having a ‘good war’ on Iran? After Donald Trump’s first strikes, I suggested that the Prime Minister…
E Pluribus Unum: The architecture of unity
When diversity is not our strength and nations start to unravel
The right’s Israel fracture
As the joint American-Israeli military campaign in Iran continues, President Trump’s coalition is starting to exhibit some cracks. The war…
‘Blasphemous’ drawings and the myth of tolerance
It’s often assumed and frequently stated that the biggest threat to British society these days comes from cultures which are…
The strange cult of Shabana Mahmood
Is Shabana Mahmood ‘one of the best Conservative Home Secretaries we have ever had’? Tory MP Edward Leigh thinks so.…
Middle East conflict exposes government on economy
Inflation is not an abstract statistic. It is the weekly grocery bill that keeps creeping higher. It is rent and…
Reform’s retreat isn’t what I want
An addendum to my piece in the mag this week, partly for clarification and partly to reinforce the point, for…
The glaring problem with the RAF’s new helicopters
It was good news, albeit good news of the your-house-hasn’t-burned-down variety. Last week, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that…
Petrol is still (relatively) very cheap
On Tuesday, Reform UK held a press conference in a petrol forecourt near the spa town of Buxton. The party…
The EU’s honours list is a sham
The European Union now has its very own honours list, grandly named the European Order of Merit – with gongs…
Suicide drones hit Tehran as instability mounts inside Iran
Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in a…
The Iran war has exposed the world’s maritime chokepoint
The war with Iran is exposing a vulnerability at the heart of the global gas market: the extraordinary concentration of…
How the Islamic Republic tried – and failed – to destroy Iranian culture
The Islamic Republic in Iran is not only at war with the United States and Israel. For years, the country’s…
How to make family tax fair
This week has seen two politicians putting family tax back on the agenda, but in very different ways. Matt Canavan…
Will Iran scupper King Charles’s US state visit?
In April, King Charles is scheduled to visit the United States to mark 250 years since America achieved its independence.…
Keir Starmer has no interest in answering Kemi Badenoch’s questions
In the last 48 hours the government of Sir Keir Starmer has ended a link between the House of Lords…
Can Trump defeat Senate Republicans over the SAVE Act?
I know that the world is focused on Iran but here’s what President Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday about…
Replacing Churchill with wildlife on our banknotes is a mistake
The Bank of England has announced that pictures of wildlife will replace famous faces on our banknotes. A cute kitten,…
Starmer and Badenoch were like squabbling kids at PMQs
Prime Minister’s Questions today saw a leader under repeated attack for a ‘screeching U-turn’ and their suitability to be Prime…
Why shouldn’t Nigel Farage invest in crypto?
The nation is – apparently – in shock. After giving endless speeches about how much he loves cryptocurrencies, Reform UK…
A farewell to harms
If this system continues, no child of mine will ever set foot in an Australian school
Slavery reparations will be the next Chagos betrayal
Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which…
Trail hunting battle looms for rural lobby
Tally ho! That sound you can hear is Keir Starmer’s barmy army charging into the fray once more. Having waged…
