Labour is staring down the barrel of an inflation crisis
With job vacancies falling, and with GDP contracting, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves might have assumed that her final week before…
Is the Chagos deal dead in the water?
Is the Chagos Islands deal dead? Ever since Keir Starmer and his foreign secretary David Lammy announced plans to hand…
Rising inflation will make Rachel Reeves’s job harder
It was already unlikely the Bank of England (BoE) was going to cut interest rates this week. Having pledged a…
The Waspi women don’t deserve compensation
Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension…
What Nigel Farage gets wrong about ‘two-tier justice’
Stories of two-tier justice are back. On Monday, Victoria Thomas Bowen, the model who doused Nigel Farage with milkshake on…
Shame on George Carey
There are many grey areas in this safeguarding saga. So it is nice when some black and white emerges. It…
Macron has become a liability for the EU
It’s been a year to forget for Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor’s coalition collapsed last month and…
Post Assad: Kurdish autonomy needed in the New Syria
Terror in the Middle East continues where the ouster of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, along with the two non-Arab entities…
The misdeeds of AHPRA: high time to reform or repeal
Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was established on July 01, 2010, as part of the National Registration and Accreditation…
Mauritius rejects Sir Keir’s Chagos deal
As if Starmer’s Labour government hasn’t had enough bad news lately, it now transpires that Mauritius has rejected the Sir…
Humza Yousaf’s top five worst Covid WhatsApps
Well, well, well. It has now emerged that the SNP government will ban WhatsApp on official devices in the wake…
Memories of a lonely, beautiful Christmas
My parents gave up on Christmas altogether once I left home for university. They had never been people for celebrations…
Democrats are about to get a do-over for their 2017 mistakes
Could 2025 give Democrats a do-over for how they misplayed the results of Donald Trump’s first election? Early signs point…
Farage’s Musk meeting is uncomfortable for the Tories and Labour
It’s happened. To the likely dismay of both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage has met with Elon Musk…
Liz Kendall’s WASPI women U-turn
Another day, another drama. Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has finally confirmed that the WASPI women will not…
How to avoid another Chinese spy scandal
As the fallout continues from the latest China spy scandal, it is hard not to conclude that Labour’s policy on…
Will higher wages lead to more inflation?
Good news for workers: wages are up. According to the latest data, released by the Office for National Statistics this…
Why Ukraine killed Igor Kirillov
Another one down. This morning, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, head of RKhBZ, Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, was heading…
What Labour can learn from Giorgia Meloni
What else can you do but laugh? Former human rights supremo Sir Keir Starmer has done a deal to tackle…
Humza Yousaf to step down as MSP
Well, well, well. It now transpires that hapless Humza Yousaf will step down as an MSP at the next Holyrood…
What’s the truth about the New Jersey drone sightings?
What is going on with the drones buzzing over New Jersey in the United States? Reportedly ‘the size of cars’,…
The hypocrisy of Hollywood’s environmental preaching
You can’t expect anything reasonable when Hollywood gets on its high horse, but really, are our pension contributions truly helping…
Nuclear cannot match coal as a competitive electricity supply
The debate between the Coalition and the Labor Party has long had an ethereal dimension. They are in furious contention,…
Trump, monarchy and the waning power of Hollywood
Donald Trump has yet to comment on the Prince Andrew ‘Chinese spy’ story, and online sleuths are already trying to…
