Is Serbia heading for its 1968 moment?
Serbia has been gripped by months of student protests in response to a tragic accident at Novi Sad railway station…
The many questions of the Washington plane crash
‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump…
Yes, Elon Musk deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
Celebrity nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize usually sit somewhere between embarrassing and insulting, but this year’s nomination of billionaire…
Tory donors pay five figures to appear at Reform fundraiser
Uh oh. Things aren’t looking good for the Tories after a number of former Conservative donors paid five figures to…
Friedrich Merz turns up the heat on Germany’s migration debate
Last night, Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition and the man most likely to become the Germany’s next chancellor, came…
Is Europe about to switch Nord Stream back on?
Could Gazprom’s Nord Stream undersea gas pipelines, partially destroyed by saboteurs in September 2022, eventually be reopened? This week, Denmark’s…
Muddying the waters on interest rates
‘Muddying the waters’ is a common strategy in politics. It entails finding a key fact or piece of information that…
Today’s pain is Israel’s, tomorrow it belongs to us
As Israel begins to receive hostages in the fragile Israel-Hamas truce, there is both relief and agony. The October 7…
Abandon net zero, rescue the economy
‘To rescue our economy,’ Trump signed day-one orders ‘to end all Biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric…
Will Donald Trump be fooled by Peter Mandelson’s volte-face?
The best that can be said about Lord Mandelson’s change of heart over Donald Trump is that it shows how…
Will public sector workers return to their desks for Donald Trump?
So much for the theory that Covid would change working practices for good: that we would divide our time between…
Starmer can’t keep blaming the Tories
Great stuff from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs. She was entertaining, tricky, probing, unpredictable. If she keeps this up she may…
Growth and environmentalism are perfectly compatible
I’m an environmentalist and I say ‘build, build, build’! Let’s build gigawatts galore of Great British renewable energy and clean…
At least Rachel Reeves is trying
Rachel from accounts is settling up. In a speech at Siemens Healthineers near Oxford, the Chancellor signalled her commitment to…
Is Rachel Reeves right that there is no trade-off between growth and net zero?
Why is it that some lies get endlessly repeated without ever being challenged, even though they are quite obviously wrong?…
Can’t the UK pay its ‘Head of Tariff Strategy’ more than £55k?
Donald Trump is back in the White House and the UK is playing catch-up once again. Whether it’s Mandelson grovelling…
James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?
It’s wonderful to hear that Professor James Tooley, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, has been reinstated after a…
Sadiq splurges £2.1 million on statues commission
Another day, another City Hall scandal. Mr S can today reveal that Labour’s London mayor Sadiq Khan has splurged a…
Where Kemi Badenoch keeps going wrong at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch may well have been right in the points that she made at Prime Minister’s Questions, but she managed…
Where is Ed Miliband?
It’s a busy day for the Labour lot, what with Rachel Reeves’s big growth speech this morning and Sir Keir…
I can’t stand Stanley Tucci
I love Italian food, and I love food writing and TV shows, so you might think I’d love Stanley Tucci.…
Rachel Reeves tries to reverse Labour’s economic gloom
As expected, Rachel Reeves used her big – and long – growth speech this morning to back the expansion of…
Do Rachel Reeves’s growth plans go far enough?
Has Rachel Reeves got her growth? Today’s speech from the Chancellor in Oxfordshire was not this government’s first attempt to…
Trump has exposed the hypocrisy of Gaza’s allies
US President Donald Trump has reiterated his call for Egypt and Jordan to accept residents of Gaza into their territory,…
Will the SNP government lose yet another health minister?
To Scotland, where today the SNP government’s embattled Health Secretary Neil Gray is in the firing line. The Scottish Tories…
