Kemi’s best PMQs yet
Kemi Badenoch was on good, brutal form at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Keir Starmer had tried to spike her guns…
Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn is a big mistake
One of Keir Starmer’s first mistakes in office was to remove the winter fuel allowance from all pensioners other than…
Banning pointed kitchen knives won’t make us safer
Anarcho-tyranny is a term used to describe societies which obsessively regulate and punish law abiding citizens, while being unwilling or…
Corbyn changes mind on Lowe’s Lucy Connolly motion
Rupert Lowe may have left Nigel Farage’s Reform party, but he’s certainly keeping himself busy. Now the MP has tabled…
David Crisafulli to the United Nations: ‘You don’t control me!’
Well damn… I confess, I didn’t have David Crisafulli sporting the biggest balls in Australian politics on my Bingo card,…
More than anything, Israelis want the hostages home
The war in Gaza, now in its 19th month, has reached a tipping point. On Monday, the UK, France, and…
David Lammy is wrong to halt trade talks with Israel
In recent weeks, Britain has wrapped up trade deals with India and the United States and is on the lookout…
Starmer U-turns on winter fuel cuts
To Prime Minister’s Questions, where Sir Keir Starmer has announced that the Labour lot will in fact reverse parts of…
John Howard, Tony Abbott, and John Anderson weigh in
The stately figures of the Liberal Party have weighed in on the Coalition split, but stopped short of giving policy…
Patrick O’Flynn helped make Brexit possible
Yesterday, the world dimmed a little. Patrick O’Flynn, a man who was both a titan of the Brexit cause and…
Thank God Angela Rayner isn’t Chancellor
Rachel Reeves may have killed off growth with her raid on employers’ National Insurance contributions, but today comes a reminder…
Patrick O’Flynn will be greatly missed
I am hugely saddened by the death of Patrick O’Flynn. He was a man who epitomised decency, kindness, gentlemanly conduct…
Rachel Reeves is to blame for the 3.5% inflation spike
There is no positive spin to be put on this morning’s inflation figures, which show the Consumer Prices Index (CPI)…
Can Trump get Britain to up defence spending faster?
When Sir Keir Starmer was elected leader of the Labour party five years ago, it must have been a feat…
Third man charged over Starmer fires
Back to the case of the fires linked to Sir Keir Starmer. Now a third man has been charged over…
Remembering Patrick O’Flynn
The unanticipated and deeply sad news of Patrick O’Flynn’s death is a blow to so many – not just to his…
Is it time to let ex-prisoners stand for parliament?
David Gauke, the former Justice Secretary now reviewing sentencing policy for the government, has long been a thoughtful voice in…
Israel is prepared to go it alone in Gaza
As Israel presses ahead with Operation Gideon’s Chariots, its most ambitious military campaign in Gaza since the war began, the…
The EU is being timid with Ukraine
Donald Trump may have pulled the world in a decidedly protectionist direction, but the European Union is not doing its…
How the right can recapture ‘Greens-land’
I live in probably the greenest part of Australia, politically speaking. My local, state, and federal representatives in inner-city Brisbane…
Victoria: financially and morally bankrupt
Victoria has had just two Treasurers in 11 years – both have played central roles in bankrupting the state. It…
A very different perspective on the Coalition’s divorce
The meteoric rise of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party this year, which I predicted in The Spectator Australia last July,…
Save the last dance: Tim Wilson defeats Zoe Daniel
Tim Wilson has lived out the fantasy of every wet Liberal by retaking a Teal seat. It is a victory…
Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia
From Shanghai: The Victorian Budget, delivered on May 20, foreshadows the Albanese government’s policy direction. Victoria’s basket-case economy mirrors federal…
Why did Joe Biden stop testing for prostate cancer in 2014?
After speculating that President Biden’s medical team must have been aware of his prostrate cancer at the time of his…
