What is the point of Emma Watson?
I’ve been musing recently how people in the public eye can go ‘downhill’ in two main ways. One can make…
The irony of the Afghan resettlement scandal
If there is one wholesale conclusion to be drawn from the Afghan resettlement scheme scandal, it’s that a problem we…
The perils of Trump’s tariff gamble
During an Oval Office meeting with Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a tariff of…
One Nation under truth, life, and sovereignty
In an age when political decisions are often dictated by focus groups, moral relativism, and international bureaucracies, One Nation stands…
Ex-Tory MPs denied special treatment for 2029 election
The 2024 election was something of a disaster for the Tories. Two in every three MPs departed the Commons last…
Trump makes America’s Coke pure again
Squashed between his Truth Social announcements that fentanyl is now a Schedule I drug, President Trump made a surprising declaration related…
RIP NPR, the broadcaster that thought emojis were racist
“Nearly 3-in-4 Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety,” National…
Rayner’s youth blunder
Oh dear. After the government announced that 16- and 17-year-olds will be allowed to vote in time for the next…
French anger looms as PM proposes holiday cuts
Banning the baguette, perhaps? Or making it compulsory to eat a sandwich at your desk at lunchtime? If you think…
Will Trump bail out Texas Republicans?
With the retirement of North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, the Republican with the heaviest Senate primary burden in 2026 becomes John…
Albanese’s anaemic neutrality risks Aukus
In doggedly resisting US prompts to boost defence spending by evoking a ‘neutralist’ foreign policy in his recent John Curtin…
Axing the Department of Education will improve education
The big education news this week is a court ruling that allows the Trump administration to begin cutting jobs at…
Labour’s votes for teenagers ruse will backfire
Our economy is on the rocks, legal and illegal immigration remains out of control, public services are creaking, and a…
Lefty MPs accept Glastonbury tickets in freebie U-turn
Well, well, well. It transpires that a number of left-wing MPs enjoyed some time away from their constituencies at this…
Will 16-year-olds vote Labour?
Gerrymandering is as old as the hills, and neither of what have been Britain’s two main political parties for the…
Burghart: It’s the economy, stupid
Most elections are fought and won on the economy. So it is no surprise that the Tory leadership have identified…
A (very) dirty story
Back in May of this year, I attended a skin cancer clinic for the excision of a lesion suspected to…
Will Labour suspend Diane Abbott – again?
All is not well in Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party. Last night, seven MPs were punished for voting against the…
NHS diversity officer: I don’t know my own sex
The Sandie Peggie case against NHS Fife is only getting stranger. The tribunal resumed on Wednesday morning, after first being…
Rachel Reeves’s tax raid is to blame for rising unemployment
Unemployment has hit 4.7 per cent – its highest level for four years after the Chancellor’s taxes on business caused…
Friedrich Merz is coming to Britain to forget his troubles at home
Friedrich Merz has managed something truly remarkable: he’s simultaneously the most internationally successful German chancellor in decades and quite possibly…
It’s Kamala 2028
Even amidst a news cycle full of Republican infighting, the Democrats are finding new and exciting ways to cut through…
New Zealand’s Associate Energy Minister, Shane Jones, is awesome
In today’s tiresome world of prefabricated media grabs and rehearsed campaign slogans uttered by cardboard cut-out ministers, it is not…
