International student export earnings overstated as problems grow
Mark Twain famously popularised the saying, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ Here he referred…
Israel won’t be distracted by ceasefire talks
Two senior US officials are in the Middle East this week, with the joint mission of negotiating an end to…
Lord Alli found in breach of parliamentary rules
Lord Alli never manages to stay out of the spotlight for long. Now the millionaire Labour donor has been found…
Northern Ireland Civil Service’s bizarre language guide
What isn’t deemed offensive these days? The latest version of Northern Ireland’s civil service ‘inclusive language guide’ has been published…
French farmers are on the verge of revolting again
A French MP was apprehended by police in Paris last week as he bought 1.35 grams of the designer drug ‘3-MMC’ from…
Copacabana cock-up
Holiday homes for the party elite. High-rise slums for the proles
Has Robert Jenrick run out of momentum?
There are just ten days to go until the end of the great Tory leadership race. It has been a…
Keir Starmer’s Trump problem is getting worse
Keir Starmer thought he was going to have to spend the flight to Samoa for the Commonwealth summit talking about…
Will the Chancellor widen the public-private pension gap?
Could Rachel Reeves really be so brazen as to lumber private sector employers with having to pay national insurance contributions…
What’s the point of the ‘gay ban’ veteran compensation?
Veterans who were dismissed from the armed forces because of their sexuality have criticised the government for the inadequacy of…
Labour-linked censorship group plans to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’
Donald Trump’s campaign has submitted an official complaint accusing Labour of breaking US electoral law over the secondment of volunteers, just days…
Why is Labour axing the Tories’ most successful education policy?
By any measure, the free schools programme has been a resounding success. If you judge schools by how much progress their…
The British are coming! Labour’s comedy of errors in the US election
Our hapless Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest…
The mystery of the missing Sue Gray
What has become of Sue Gray, the Prime Minister’s former Downing Street chief of staff, who was rather unceremoniously removed…
Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles
King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit…
The gratuitous trade in images of Palestinian pain
It is getting to the point where I am dreading going online. For I know the minute I open my…
Can America keep being the world’s policeman?
America is retreating from the world stage. The country’s senile president appears absent from the dramatic events unfolding in the…
Kamala shows her stern side in NBC interview
Small wonder that Donald Trump is dodging a new debate with Kamala Harris. If her latest television interview was anything…
Land tax is socialist and should be banned
Stamp duty makes it more difficult to purchase a home. Not only does it increase the initial outlay required, but…
Gang member jailed for kidnap and torture released by Labour
The second round of Labour’s early prison release scheme saw around 1,100 inmates released on Tuesday – and Justice Secretary…
Do not under any condition let Liz Cheney babysit your kids
I don’t understand why Liz Cheney thinks we would trust Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff with our children when we…
Why is Trump beating Kamala to the Arab vote?
Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in…
Andrew Bailey’s pessimistic pre-Budget warning
With a week to go until Rachel Reeves’s first Budget, Andrew Bailey has today sounded a note of gloomy caution.…
Joe Biden wants Bibi to be careful
On 20 June 2019, President Donald Trump rescinded an order he had given for a military attack on Iran in…
What’s John Swinney got against two-spirit Scots?
You may have thought that the Scottish government had abandoned gender metaphysics after the collapse of the ‘Gender Recognition Reform…
