Swinney stages reshuffle amid SNP infighting
It’s a busy day in politics and the SNP is keen not to be left out of the action. As…
Starmer returns to his favourite PMQs subject: Liz Truss
‘Mr Speaker, he loves talking about Liz Truss – why? Because he wants to hide from his economic record.’ Kemi…
SNP plotters should think twice before moving against John Swinney
For those who feel Scottish politics has become a little dull of late, fear not: a rebel faction within the…
US urges UK to U-turn on Israeli sanctions
As if the Labour government didn’t have enough on its plate with Rachel Reeves’s spending review to be announced at…
Tassie heads to the polls as the Liberals leave the building
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David Lammy has scored a win against pro-Gaza civil servants
Not for the first time in Whitehall, we are seeing a power struggle between elected government ministers and civil servants…
How many electric cars are at the bottom of the ocean?
Have you ever imagined a post-apocalyptic Earth, devoid of oceans, where the shipwrecks of human history are laid out, poking…
Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review is a recipe for trouble
Rachel Reeves will apparently tell us today that she has chosen stability over chaos. It is one of the Chancellor’s…
Will the L.A. immigration riots reach Europe?
The pro-immigration protests that erupted last week in Los Angeles have now spread across the United States. On Tuesday there…
Will Bangladesh’s leader mention Tulip Siddiq in his meeting with the PM?
If Keir Starmer meets Bangladesh’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, as planned at Downing Street this week, their agenda will likely…
Britain’s sanctioning of Israeli ministers is a grave mistake
The United Kingdom’s decision this week to impose personal sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir…
No, Nato: Brits had not ‘better learn to speak Russian’
It seems conventional wisdom by now that the public can only be convinced by hyperbole. As Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte…
England’s defeat to Senegal might be their worst ever performance
“England, the lions of Autumn are but lambs come the Spring”. That quote is often attributed to Michel Platini, but…
Britain’s Holocaust memorial must focus only on the Jews
The Holocaust Memorial Bill returns to Parliament for its report stage in the House of Lords today. The legislation marks…
How Harvard lost America
President Trump’s proclamation, “Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University,” pays a compliment to that crossroads of brilliance…
AHPRA: Unfit for purpose?
‘The Misdeeds of AHPRA’ may sound like a provocative title for a medical conference, but the testimonies shared at this…
Taxpayers subsidize LA riots through California’s ‘protest-industrial complex’
Los Angeles has erupted into violence and at the center of it stands a cast of progressive activists and political…
When antisemitism is tolerated and hypocrisy becomes policy
Just as in the 1930s, the atrocities of the Holocaust did not emerge in a vacuum – nor did they…
Do refugees and illegal migrants have responsibilities?
Financially dependent refugees and illegal migrants are not easily integrated
Renewable energy is doomed
No sooner had the Prime Minister announced a roundtable on productivity when advice was being proffered on how further to…
Does David Bull know why people vote Reform?
In a week of high drama, in which Reform lost its chairman and then saw him return 48 hours later,…
J.D. Vance: deport Derek Guy
Forget the protesters versus police clash on the West Coast: this week’s fiercest battle of wits is between a Vietnamese…
Ed Miliband is an astonishing Commons performer
I’m not totally sure where they keep Ed Miliband in between his Commons appearances. Perhaps some sort of deep freeze…
Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hammers nail into DEI coffin
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services didn’t dominate the headlines – but it…
Tories score double the donations of Reform
How much have political donors gifted to their party coffers? Well, the results are now in. Today’s Electoral Commission figures…
