Dutton’s omissions matter
On Sunday, 12 January 2025, Australia’s Federal Opposition Leader, Peter Dutton, in a widely reported speech, made a compelling case…
What Trump’s executive orders will do
The newly sworn-in President Trump had a busy inaugural day. Between swearing into office and waving a saber around while…
Trump’s inauguration ball was a night to remember
After a packed first day in office, starting with an indoors swearing-in ceremony followed by a celebration at Capitol One…
What lies next for the Middle Kingdom?
Many mistook the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) tightening of what many believe to be an iron grip on Hong Kong…
Trump’s speech was one of the most rousing and substantive in American history
The mood in Washington, at least in the quarters I frequented, has been almost giddy these past few days. I watched…
SNP minister admits misleading parliament over Limogate
Well, well, well. Just when the Scottish government thought it had steadied the SNP ship after two rather tumultuous years,…
Southport and the problem with judge-led inquiries
Sir Keir Starmer has promised an inquiry into the events around the Southport murders committed by Axel Rudakubana, saying there…
Will Trump deport Prince Harry?
To the US, where President Trump is busy making the most of his return to the top job. At his…
Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?
Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed…
What Rishi Sunak did next
It wasn’t so long ago that political commentators and Tory MPs alike were confidently predicting that Rishi Sunak would leave…
Joe Biden was right to pardon Marcus Garvey
In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led…
Can Reeves get Heathrow’s third runway off the ground?
After last week’s bond market jitters, the Chancellor pledged to go ‘further and faster’ to improve the UK’s anaemic economic…
When will Keir Starmer tell us everything about Southport?
This morning Keir Starmer implied but did not categorically say that Islamist ideology was not the motivation of the dreadful…
Burghart warns of ‘overwhelming power’ of Treasury
To London, where the Institute for Government’s 2025 conference is in full flow. This afternoon the think tank hosted a…
Why we’ll probably learn nothing from the Southport murders
The PM’s warm words will count for little. Starmer’s pledge is reminiscent of the one made by Theresa May in…
Trump exposes the madness of Ed Miliband’s energy plans
Remember how the first incarnation of a Trump presidency was supposed to be pretty well curtains for Planet Earth? Well,…
Starmer U-turns on US trade deal
It’s a day ending in ‘y’ – so of course Keir Starmer is spinning like a top. Donald Trump’s inauguration…
Donald Trump, feminist icon?
Cast your mind back eight years. The day after Donald Trump’s first inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women marched on…
No, Elon Musk didn’t make a fascist salute
We’re not even 24 hours into the second Donald Trump term and already there’s a ‘New Nazis’ panic. Only this…
Only a fifth of Brits optimistic about Labour
Another day, another set of poor poll results for Labour. At the start of its 2025 conference, the Institute for…
Prevent is not solely to blame for Southport failings
The assailant in the Southport massacre has pleaded guilty to the murders of three children in the town last year.…
Starmer: I knew about Rudakubana’s extremist history
After coming under criticism for not announcing a national inquiry over the grooming gangs scandal, Keir Starmer moved quickly on…
Employment suffers largest fall since pandemic
Rachel Reeve’s £25 billion National Insurance rise is beginning to bite. According to the latest data on our labour market,…
Trump professes peace, threatens fury
The new president of the United States believes in fairness, and says the running of the Panama Canal has been…
The grooming gang perpetrators who are never convicted
When you hear the term ‘grooming gang’, what comes to mind? ‘Grooming’, as I have long said, is a euphemism…
