Labour can’t afford to ignore the war in Sudan
‘The UK-UAE relationship is central to driving economic growth – it’s our largest trading partner in the region.’ So tweeted…
100 dignitaries sign open letter condemning Brazil
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADL) have launched an open letter, condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ attacks on X. More…
The Huw Edwards scandal shows that the BBC never learns
Albert Einstein wasn’t thinking about the BBC when he defined insanity as ‘doing the same thing over and over again…
Rainbow Toolkit activism, let children be children
Most parents today send their children off to kindergarten and school with the expectation that as they progress from infancy…
Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer treated me like a ‘non-person’
All is not well in the Labour party. Diane Abbott has launched an attack on the Prime Minister over his…
Government spending needs reform before taxes
I would like a dollar for every time I’ve read how much the Australian economy needs tax reform. Sure, it…
Coconut placards and the truth about free speech in Britain
When you describe what happened, you realise how ridiculous it was. A woman was dragged to court for holding up…
The trouble with the Champions League
The revamped Champions League kicks off this week with all the gushing hyperbole we have come to expect from this…
When will EU flag wavers get the message?
Arguing about the last night of the Proms is as much of an annual tradition as the music itself. Usually…
A wider malaise in the culture of Defence
The news that campaign and gallantry medals will be stripped from a bevy of middle-ranking officers over allegations of war…
Martin Hewitt is the right pick for ‘border tsar’
The ‘border tsar’ isn’t the official title for Martin Hewitt. The former police chief has been appointed to the new…
Starmer faces backlash over Meloni meeting
There’s trouble in Sir Keir’s Labour paradise, it seems, after the Prime Minister jetted off to Italy for a migration-focused…
The Greens’ housing delusion
There is nothing better than living in your own home. Even with a mortgage, being able to be the king…
The rise of the Keffiyeh Karen
When Black Lives Matter created the figure of the Karen, it was a sign of that movement’s darker, bullying qualities.…
Trump and Kamala are competing over who’s more online
The messaging in the 2024 election has devolved into a contest to determine which campaign is more online, to their…
Lib Dem conference plunged into gender row storm
The Liberal Democrat party conference: surely a bastion of good old-fashioned free speech? Sadly not, it seems, given the storm…
Ukraine can’t wait for a decision on long-range missiles for ever
Last week was electric with anticipation. The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, visited London for a UK-US ‘strategic dialogue’,…
Is Thierry Breton’s resignation a win for Elon Musk?
Described as ‘France’s powerful European Commissioner’, the EU bureaucrat who lectured Elon Musk about online censorship has resigned suddenly. Thierry…
The lesson Keir Starmer could learn from Francois Fillon
Sir Keir Starmer, the man often dubbed ‘Mr. Rules’ for his reputation as a stickler for ethical conduct, now finds…
Huw Edwards avoids jail time over child abuse images
To Westminster magistrates’ court where Huw Edwards has this afternoon been handed a suspended jail sentence of six months imprisonment,…
Starmer shouldn’t rush to copy Meloni’s Albania migrant plan
One of the first things Keir Starmer did on entering Downing Street in July was to abandon the previous government’s…
Electric vehicle targets are completely pointless
Labour might relax the ban on the sale of new petrol cars that is scheduled to come into force in…
Democrats shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s would-be assassins
What happens when you continually demonize someone as “Hitler,” insist that he is “a dictator” and “a threat to democracy?”…
Bureaucratic hypocrisy on the International Day of Democracy
Yesterday was the International Day of Democracy. Perhaps conscious of democracy’s decline under their watch, all the usual suspects have…
Watch: Yvette Cooper’s awkward interview on Lady Starmer’s wardrobe
Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t been in office three months yet and already the Labour government is mired in cronyism controversies.…
