Is Labour really plotting a £2,000 tax grab?
Is the Labour party planning a £2,000 tax grab on households? That was Rishi Sunak’s main message last night during…
Listen: Ashworth slams Sunak’s debate ‘lies’
Well, well, well. The gloves are coming off as election campaigns ramp up. Both Conservative and Labour politicians have launched…
How the culture war came for Kenwood Ladies’ Pond
‘Not another step!’ The large women in an old T shirt stretched across her bulging shoulders glared at my father.…
Education has all but disappeared from the election debate
More than 25 years ago, when I was setting up the Sutton Trust, the leader of the opposition, a fresh-faced…
Will South Africa’s unemployed rise up?
Beginning in the year 2000, Robert Mugabe began snatching white-owned farms for ‘redistribution’ and giving them to the black majority…
The political appropriation of D-Day
If there is one place to avoid this week it is Normandy. The global elite are in town to commemorate…
How the Tories created Nigel Farage
Conventional Conservative wisdom once warned about the dangers of appeasement. Rudyard Kipling, the great poet of imperialism, may be the…
Sunak’s scrappy style worked, but he fought on a false premise
‘Gentlemen, please’, said Julie Etchingham, over and over again, as she chaired this ITV debate. She had given Rishi Sunak and…
Starmer will win the election, but Sunak won the debate
Full disclosure: I went into the ITV election debate wanting and expecting Sir Keir Starmer to walk all over Rishi…
Why Biden is ‘toughening up’ on the border
With “Securing Our Borders” signs behind him, President Joe Biden announced this afternoon that he’d sign an executive order to…
Biden acts on the border… sort of… maybe
The contrast between the two parties on illegal immigration couldn’t be sharper. Donald Trump erected a wall. Joe Biden erected…
Can anti-Trump billboards from Republicans sway voters?
Cockburn was driving down I-95 this weekend when he was suddenly accosted by Donna R., an elderly woman with a…
‘Livid’ ex-Labour candidate resigns from party
Another day, another drama. Labour has been thrown back into the spotlight after deselected candidate Faiza Shaheen today announced her…
The humbling of Narendra Modi
There was never really any serious doubt that India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, would win a historic third term in…
Back to the future: workplace reform takes centre stage again
The industrial relations scare campaign has begun, as we count down to the next federal election. The recent leaking of…
Are the new weight loss drugs headed for listing on the PBS?
Ever since Covid, I’ve avoided making reference to the World Health Organisation (WHO) given how wrong it seemed to be…
A national crisis? Stop marching and start working
It was difficult to watch Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan join the national marches against gendered violence last month knowing she…
Farage doused in drink during Clacton trip
Reform’s new leader Nigel Farage has been busy wooing crowds in Clacton as he launched his election campaign in the…
Egypt has questions to answer over Rafah
Why have all eyes been on Rafah? We have been led to believe that the intense focus on a town…
The logic behind Labour’s foie gras ban
It was never very impressed by the opportunity to strike trade deals across the fast-growing Pacific. It didn’t much like…
Cracking down on the ECHR won’t save Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s unequivocal statement this week about sex and the Equality Act was a clever piece of electioneering. Subsequent reports…
Why are the Tories playing Farage’s game?
How should Rishi Sunak respond to the unwelcome insertion of Nigel Farage into the election campaign? The Prime Minister called…
Clacton goes wild for Nigel Farage
Farage-mania has come to Clacton-on-Sea this lunchtime. Hundreds of locals gathered around the Essex seaside town’s pier to hear Nigel…
BBC in bother as pundit accused of antisemitism
Back to the blundering BBC, whose latest mishap involves one of the broadcaster’s cricket pundits. Qasim Sheikh, formerly a Scotland…
Was Farage inspired by the rise of Le Pen?
The last time Nigel Farage stood for parliament was in 2015. He wasn’t elected, and it was his seventh failure…
