There will never be another Alan Yentob
In the excellent BBC comedy series W1A, which poked a harsher degree of fun at its makers than many would…
J.B. Pritzker once thwarted a coup, why is he trying to start one on US soil?
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s incendiary speech last month calling on Democrats to organize massive civil unrest against the Trump Administration…
Bring back Whitsun!
Bank Holidays are like buses- you wait ages for one before they all come along at once. Tomorrow will be…
Labor’s energy crisis ends up on your bill
From Shanghai (perhaps for the last time): I’ve just finished my last teaching gig as a full-time academic. It is…
Could France’s next president come from the Yellow Hats?
When Donald Trump first burst onto the political scene in 2016, comparisons were drawn with a 1950s Frenchman called Pierre…
Means-testing winter fuel was obviously correct
I’ve seen a lot of people, lately, making the case that the big problem with Sir Keir Starmer’s government is…
The sad death of the English pub
It was a drizzly Tuesday evening in the 17th-century Oxford village pub I manage, the kind of night when regulars…
Danes are baffled by Britain’s hatred of second-home owners
Spring has arrived on the North Coast of Zealand, and my fellow Danes are busily scrubbing down their summerhouses for…
Gary Lineker isn’t the only quiet man of football to find his voice
Sometimes it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Gary Lineker, who presented his final Match of the…
The shrinking habitat of Net Zero extremists
Net Zero is under threat in New Zealand, according to headlines last week. Although the population of New Zealand and…
How Biden became Trump’s useful political milksop
It turns out that Joe Biden is one of the best things ever to happen to Donald Trump. Sure, Trump…
The NHS should be Farage’s next hobby horse
Nigel Farage’s march to the left continues. Reform is now committed not just to reinstating winter fuel payments for all…
Kneecap are not rebels
Better rebels than Kneecap would’ve begun their headline set at Wide Awake festival in south London on Friday night with…
The welfare select committee is wasting its time
The Work and Pensions Committee’s recent safeguarding report reminded me of the worst thing about working in politics: other people…
Rayner denies leadership ambitions and Kemi humiliated on Sky
Rayner: ‘Can’t guarantee’ winter fuel payments will be on time for this winter Keir Starmer announced a partial U-turn on…
Reform is now a left-wing party
How much longer are Reform’s critics going to be able to get away with calling it a right-wing party? It…
Is Jim Chalmers’ super tax turning Teal seats blue?
Believe it or not, the battle for the blue ribbon in Goldstein is still going on. Yesterday, the AEC announced…
Are there more Chagos-style surrenders to come?
Broadly speaking, there are two responses to Keir Starmer’s surrender of the Chagos Islands. The first is indignation. This is…
Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ will raise the risk of attack on US
President Trump and his administration are advancing plans for their version of a homeland missile defense system, dubbed the “Golden…
(A failed) Australian realignment
Australia is due a political realignment. The split in the Liberal-National coalition this week could be a good thing if…
No, James Corden: London doesn’t want a mayor like you
Clown. It’s a great word, and I use it often. Though not a great fan of emojis, the clown face…
What happened to Labour’s racial equality agenda?
The ‘eradication of structural racism would be a defining cause’ of Labour’s time in power. That’s what Keir Starmer said…
The ECHR is not Churchill’s court
Is the European Court of Human Rights a foreign court? For the former diplomat Lord Hannay of Chiswick, this ‘lamentable, dog-whistle nomenclature is…
Should starvation ever be used as a weapon of war?
Sorry to disappoint antisemites, but Operation Starvation is not an Israeli plan to murder millions of Palestinians; it was a…
