Keir Starmer climbs down on welfare cuts
At last, Keir Starmer has bowed to the inevitable. Having first adopted a posture of defiance, then conciliation, the Prime…
Keir Starmer is seriously stupid
Sir Keir has returned from his worldwide statesmanship tour. Barely the edge of a photograph went ungurned in, not a…
Iran’s supreme leader looks more deluded than defiant
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has made his first public comments since the ceasefire with Israel took hold. Khamenei,…
Don’t mourn the death of TV
The online American right is positively obsessed with the nineties. It’s easy to establish the cause here: a surfeit of…
What do Iranians want?
I was born in Gorgan, Iran, ten years after the Islamic Revolution, and for the first 21 years of my…
Watch: Tory MP attacks Kemi in parliament
Oh dear. While Labour rips itself apart on welfare, it seems that one Tory MP is determined to get the…
Why has a leak inquiry been launched into Hermer’s legal advice?
I have now been told by four people in government that a leak inquiry is being conducted into the revelations…
We must reclaim the word ‘progressive’
I’ve grown tired of hearing the term progressive used to describe people and policies that embody anything but progress. The…
Can Keir Starmer save his Welfare Bill?
The Prime Minister has never been a huge fan of the press. But there is an apt Fleet Street phrase…
Our benefits system isn’t helping people with mental health problems
There are moments in politics when you have to say something people won’t want to hear. This is one of…
Is your private school dumbing down?
Bankruptcy, as Ernest Hemingway famously said, comes ‘gradually, then suddenly’. For Britain’s private schools floundering in the wake of the…
Labour’s welfare rebels will regret their revolt
A Labour government facing a rebellion over welfare reform is something of a dog-bites-man story – Labour never finds this…
Why does Starmer want to grow Britain’s nuclear arsenal?
The government published its National Security Strategy 2025 earlier this week, a strange pushmi-pullyu document building on some policy reviews…
Spain won’t escape Trump’s wrath for its Nato rebellion
At yesterday’s Nato summit in The Hague, all but one of the 32 leaders agreed to increase their defence spending…
For Trump, solving Ukraine won’t be as easy as Iran
For the moment, at least, the world seems to be going Donald Trump’s way. Instead of setting the Middle East…
Who won the 12-day war?
As the dust settles from the United States and Israel’s sweeping strikes on the Islamic Republic regime’s nuclear infrastructure, a…
Albanese’s path to irrelevance
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is proving to be a leader defined not by vision or conviction, but by a chronic…
What the K’gari dingoes need
I’m a bit jaded because a ranger on Fraser Island (renamed K’gari by the Qld Labor government in 2023) has…
Coalition no match for Labor’s ruthless Net Zero agenda
For many years Australian policy has been moving backwards in the pursuit of cheap, reliable energy. The policy has now…
Mahmoud Khalil is living the American dream
With Iran’s nuclear sites “obliterated” and the 12 DAY WAR in the rear-view, the Trump administration can now turn attention…
Wonks team up to ‘Fix Britain’
It is a year ago next week that Labour won the general election. ‘The adults are back in the room!’…
Call him Daddy
Sitting next to Donald Trump at the end of a short NATO summit, Mark Rutte, head of the organization, looked…
Rachel Reeves looks increasingly petrified
Sir Keir Starmer was in the Hague. I know, I know, you’d have thought they would have done Blair first.…
Starmer stands by his welfare bill
Keir Starmer is in the Netherlands to attend the Nato summit – but that is not the subject which is…
