The winners and losers from the Gorton by-election

28 February 2026 5:16 am

So Gorton and Denton has become another of those parliamentary seat names which enters the collective memory of British politics…

The politics of the ‘Muslim vote’

28 February 2026 5:12 am

British politics looks very different today. Opinion polls suggested for some months that the Greens could challenge and defeat Labour…

How careful is Trump being on Iran?

28 February 2026 3:39 am

Every Friday, it seems, words spills from Washington that Donald Trump has ordered an imminent strike against Iran. He likes…

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner loses again – A victory for free speech | Celine Baumgarten S3 Ep 18

28 February 2026 3:00 am

Celine Baumgarten (Celine Against the Machine) has celebrated her SECOND victory against the eSafety Commissioner. This wasn’t only a personal…

The origins of the Pakistan-Afghanistan war

28 February 2026 2:32 am

Pakistan and Afghanistan are at war with each other. Early Friday morning, Pakistan struck major Afghan cities including Kandahar and…

British politics is turning French

28 February 2026 2:22 am

An editorial in Friday’s Le Figaro (France’s equivalent to the New York Times) is headlined “Mélenchon or the moral suicide…

The CPS has failed in its bid to create an Islamic blasphemy law

28 February 2026 1:57 am

For much of the last year, it has seemed like the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been battling to create…

Is Gorton and Denton the deathknell for two-party politics?

27 February 2026 11:55 pm

A certain question has been hanging in the air ever since the 2024 general election, when between them the Conservatives…

Labour can’t complain about sectarianism in Gorton

27 February 2026 11:39 pm

And with that, what was once racist is now allowed to be said. What was yesterday a conspiracy theory is…

Starmer: I am going nowhere

27 February 2026 11:23 pm

Poor old Sir Keir. It turns out that there was indeed a large anti-Reform tactical vote in Gorton – it…

The shamelessness of Zack Polanski

27 February 2026 11:13 pm

The Gorton and Denton by-election gives us a taste of the vicious future that awaits England. The most dynamic force…

Labour’s Gorton defeat shows that Keir Starmer is finished

27 February 2026 6:25 pm

In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare,…

The Gail’s attacks are brainless – and terrifying

27 February 2026 4:47 pm

If anti-Israel agitators wish to avoid being described as terrorists, they might begin by ceasing to terrorise ordinary people. The…

Green by-election triumph is a sign of things to come

27 February 2026 4:20 pm

In the end, it was not even that close. The Green party has stormed to victory in Gorton and Denton,…

The oppression of feminism by the Australian government

27 February 2026 11:25 am

Equality in Australia is the total removal of women’s sexual boundaries

False economics of immigration

27 February 2026 9:12 am

The media claims that immigration is good for the economy. The truth is more complex...

Uniparty is out of touch with the realities of growing old

27 February 2026 9:01 am

After leaving the Woke world of academia, I’ve been living in the real world again. It’s been great. Riding motorbikes…

ASPIRE: we need serious political change

27 February 2026 8:50 am

Australia is facing big problems. Our birthrate of 1.48 means every year, fewer Australians are born. A nation that is…

Lauren Boebert’s sneaky texts derail Hillary’s Epstein deposition

27 February 2026 8:43 am

Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill austerely complied with a House Oversight Committee subpoena in order to explain their ties…

North Korea’s nuclear ambitions knows no bounds

27 February 2026 8:14 am

North Korea’s ninth party congress, held this week, was little more than a rubber-stamping exercise. That much was clear when…

Will Russia really be able to stop Britain’s nukes?

27 February 2026 3:40 am

A recent report by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) argues that within the next decade, Russian missile defences may…

The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton

27 February 2026 2:07 am

A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in…

More reviews won’t fix the NHS’s failing maternity services

27 February 2026 12:49 am

NHS maternity services are in crisis: everyone knows that. In fact, everyone has known a lot more than that for…

Can Wes Streeting get the sick back to work?

27 February 2026 12:13 am

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has tried using the NHS for social engineering before. Previously, he’s suggested that weight-loss jabs could…

The Epstein files and the new Satanic Panic

26 February 2026 10:21 pm

I’ve spent the last few years building an audience of skeptics and – let’s be honest – more than a…