One Nation on the rise driven by the Opposition’s incompetence

20 January 2026 10:23 pm

Any poll taken in the next few weeks will show an even sharper increase in the vote for One Nation.…

Welsh Tory expelled for Reform talks

20 January 2026 10:04 pm

Another one bites the dust. After Kemi Badenoch expelled Robert Jenrick from the Conservative party in Westminster, it seems that…

Nigel Farage: Trump can still ‘sink’ the Chagos deal

20 January 2026 9:52 pm

‘Better late than never.’ That’s how Reform party leader Nigel Farage has described Donald Trump’s sudden and dramatic repudiation of…

Trump is right: Starmer’s Chagos deal is an act of ‘great stupidity’

20 January 2026 9:23 pm

The excruciating thing about Donald Trump is that the madder and more unreasonable he seems to become, the more he…

Albo delivers ‘dog’s breakfast’, claims antisemitism wasn’t Labor’s fault

20 January 2026 9:05 pm

From the Parliamentary Press Gallery: Following yesterday’s shemozzle, and after a good night’s sleep, I rode my new scrambler into…

Venezuela’s chavista elite is clinging on – but only just

20 January 2026 9:01 pm

Hugo Chávez’s eyes are everywhere across parts of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. In stark black and white, his gaze is stamped…

Could Brooklyn bring down the house of Beckham?

20 January 2026 8:50 pm

‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth is it to have a thankless child!’ Such was the lament of Shakespeare’s King…

Rachel Reeves: destroyer of jobs

20 January 2026 7:59 pm

Rachel Reeve’s jobs collapse is trundling on. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 155,000…

Leaving the ECHR won’t turn us into Russia or Belarus

20 January 2026 7:31 pm

In the debate about withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) enthusiasts for European human rights law often…

How Macron’s ‘macho’ act fell apart

20 January 2026 7:01 pm

On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron was urging his fellow Europeans to use a ‘bazooka’ against Donald Trump in response to his…

Trump slams Starmer’s Chagos deal

20 January 2026 6:39 pm

Oh dear. Less than 24 hours after Keir Starmer did his big Hugh Grant act over Greenland, Donald Trump has…

What does Bridget Phillipson have against free speech?

20 January 2026 5:46 pm

It is easy to forget that, under a quirk of the UK legal system, if you want to get the…

Keir Starmer will regret approving China’s new mega-embassy

20 January 2026 5:00 pm

Keir Starmer is poised to give the go-ahead for China’s new mega-embassy near the Tower of London – the biggest…

There’s trouble at the top in the Taliban

20 January 2026 4:30 pm

Taliban rule of Afghanistan becomes madder by the day. The only thing they reliably do is find new ways of…

We’re trapped in 2016

20 January 2026 4:15 pm

With all the talk of Brexit, do you ever get the sense that social media is stuck in 2016? Well,…

The inversion of evil

20 January 2026 1:43 pm

When everything is fascism, nothing is

The test Australia is failing

20 January 2026 12:03 pm

A ritual of solidarity – and an indictment

US Supreme Court wades into the transgender issue

20 January 2026 9:34 am

The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) very recently heard arguments in two Constitutional cases involving the right of transgender women athletes…

Tories purge the Jenrickites

20 January 2026 5:21 am

It seems that Kemi Badenoch isn’t done with Robert Jenrick just yet. Tonight she is set to meet Tory MPs…

Starmer’s war on pubs shows he was never serious about growth

20 January 2026 1:39 am

To a landlord in a draughty Victorian boozer staring at his latest business rates bill, it will read more like…

Far from all Americans support Trump’s advance on Greenland

20 January 2026 1:15 am

President Trump isn’t ushering in a golden age but rather an age of gold. The precious metal has hit an…

Poll: public back Badenoch’s sacking of Jenrick

20 January 2026 12:59 am

So, who’s gonna be the next to go? The rate of Reform switchers has stepped out in recent days with…

Is Prince Harry ready for his privacy trial showdown?

19 January 2026 11:54 pm

When Prince Harry makes one of his comparatively rare returns to Britain, he tends to exhibit one of two personae.…

Is the western alliance dead?

19 January 2026 10:16 pm

European politicians had little rest this weekend after Donald Trump’s announcement on Saturday that he would be imposing punitive tariffs…

Davos’s Iran invite is a new low

19 January 2026 10:11 pm

It’s the fag end of January, so that means it’s time for Davos – the annual World Economic Forum (WEF)…