A Danish lesson for Labour in how to revive Britain’s economy

20 June 2024 4:13 pm

The coincidence of the 2024 general election and the Euro 2024 football tournament is a great lesson in the myopia…

Just Stop Oil’s Stonehenge attack is unforgivable

20 June 2024 3:42 pm

So now we know: nowhere is safe from the entitled fury of the Just Stop Oil mob. Not even Stonehenge.…

When will Labour get specific about its stance on gender reform?

20 June 2024 4:06 am

In a general election campaign that has oftentimes presented scenarios that feel like a fever dream, the surreal headlines keep…

How we should deal with Just Stop Oil

20 June 2024 4:02 am

One need not cast around for signs that Britain is no longer a serious country, but the indulgence with which…

Poll puts Tories on lowest seat total in history

20 June 2024 3:56 am

How is the Conservative campaign going? Well, according to the latest YouGov poll, things are looking worse for Rishi Sunak…

Sunak on course to lose seat, predicts poll

20 June 2024 3:48 am

Good heavens. One of the many polls released today has suggested that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak could become the first…

Working from home won’t fix Britain’s productivity

20 June 2024 3:35 am

Why is Britain’s productivity so stubbornly low? Output per worker increased just 0.1 per cent in the year to April. Across swathes…

What does Keir Starmer think a ‘working person’ is?

20 June 2024 3:28 am

Keir Starmer has promised not to raise taxes on ‘working people’. But who, exactly, is a working person? The definition,…

How the elites betrayed America’s working class, with Batya-Ungar Sargon

20 June 2024 3:00 am

There has long been a curious sub-genre in liberal journalism. It can best be described as “examining working class Americans…

Advance Australia Bare

20 June 2024 2:50 am

Albo the great apologist has recently informed the nation that the incoming Governor General was appointed for a ‘modern Australia’.…

It shouldn’t be surprising that a Muslim son of immigrants is funding Reform

20 June 2024 1:56 am

Should it really be a surprise that Zia Yusuf, a Muslim entrepreneur who made his fortune setting up a company…

Straight from the Dastyari playbook

20 June 2024 1:20 am

Australia’s own Peter Perfect Premier Mr Malinauskas has faltered, revealing a true agenda to stifle political opposition in South Australia.…

Has Julie Inman Grant undermined the Office of the eSafety Commission?

20 June 2024 1:00 am

There are credible arguments for the existence of the Office of the eSafety Commission, provided it acts as intended. In…

Watch: Just Stop Oil deface Stonehenge

19 June 2024 11:45 pm

Now they’ve gone and done it. The juvenile antics of the eternally brain dead Just Stop Oil will be familiar…

When will the SNP admit its independence dream is over?

19 June 2024 10:47 pm

Line one page one of the SNP manifesto is, as promised, about independence. If the SNP wins a majority of…

Why won’t this museum let women see its Igbo mask?

19 June 2024 10:05 pm

The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford has won a reputation for its energetic programme of ‘decolonisation’. Its director, Laura van Broekhoven,…

Boris Johnson can’t save the Tories from the coming wipeout

19 June 2024 8:52 pm

Are you beach-body ready? Boris Johnson, who has always projected a joyously uninhibited confidence about his physical form, clearly thinks…

Why Sunak will struggle to win the credit for falling inflation

19 June 2024 7:22 pm

After a three-year saga, inflation has finally returned to the Bank of England’s target. The Office for National Statistics reports…

France’s left-wing coalition would unleash migrant chaos on Britain

19 June 2024 6:41 pm

Emmanuel Macron has described the left-wing coalition’s manifesto as ‘totally immigrationist’. The Popular Front, which brings together Communists, Greens, Socialists…

Labour ditches Scottish candidate over ‘pro-Russian’ posts

19 June 2024 5:00 pm

It’s a day ending in ‘y’ which means that a political party somewhere is having candidate drama. This time it’s…

Why does Labour want to ban these 15 peers?

19 June 2024 4:00 pm

Following last week’s manifesto launches, Mr S has been looking into the fine print. As part of Labour’s plans to…

The case for not voting at this election

19 June 2024 3:30 pm

Anyone over the age of 40 can scarcely help comparing this election, or the state of our two main parties,…

Revealed: Tory member behind anti-Reform attack ad firm

19 June 2024 5:50 am

Are the Tories feeling the heat from Reform? Apparently so, if online adverts are anything to go by, with London-based…

What’s the real reason Jim Ratcliffe is backing Starmer?

19 June 2024 4:49 am

On the face of it, there could hardly be a better example of a turkey voting for Christmas than the…

What’s wrong with calling a female walker ‘sweetheart’?

19 June 2024 4:31 am

So, another place where men have to mind their language: on mountains. In an article in Scottish Mountaineer magazine by one…