The cracks are appearing in Putin’s relationship with China

23 August 2024 12:04 am

Relations between China and Russia are going from strength to strength – or so they say. In reality, the strain…

GCSE grade inflation is finally over

22 August 2024 11:09 pm

Today’s GSCE results show essentially unchanged performance compared with last year, with 21.7 per cent of pupils achieving grade 7…

If Ford can’t crack electric cars, no one can

22 August 2024 11:08 pm

It had the history, the manufacturing muscle, the capital, and the brand to make it work. When Ford announced plans…

Yvette Cooper has her work cut out on illegal migration

22 August 2024 11:06 pm

Happy immigration stats day, one and all. The Home Office has this morning released a raft of data on visa…

The ‘corporate greed’ fallacy

22 August 2024 10:55 pm

At a recent campaign event in North Carolina, Kamala Harris became the latest politician to diagnose corporate greed as the…

Now more Scottish Tory leadership candidates drop out

22 August 2024 10:27 pm

Back to Scotland, where the ongoing leadership contest for the next leader is heating up. Nominations for candidates close today,…

Does the UK really need an immigration deal with the EU?

22 August 2024 9:49 pm

There is talk, yet again, of the UK and EU agreeing some kind of youth mobility scheme, increasing the opportunities…

SNP membership numbers plummet further

22 August 2024 8:48 pm

Oh dear. It’s not a good time to be an SNP politician, what with the recent electoral wipeout, the party’s…

DNC attempts to sanitize Walz’s false statements

22 August 2024 4:47 pm

Chicago You get freedom, you get freedom, we all get freedom! At least that was the pitch from Oprah Winfrey…

The problem with compulsory GCSE resits

22 August 2024 4:00 pm

This morning, students up and down across the country will anxiously open up their GCSE results, with local papers publishing…

French politics has become an absurdist farce

22 August 2024 4:00 pm

It’s the rentrée politique this week in France, the start of the political year, a bit earlier than normal. It promises to be…

Moscow is blaming Britain for the Kursk attack

22 August 2024 4:00 pm

Is the sinking of the super-yacht Bayesian and likely death of Mike Lynch a bigger story than Ukraine’s Kursk incursion? The Russian…

Does it matter who wins the Scottish Tory leadership race?

22 August 2024 4:00 pm

Nominations for candidates wanting to stand in the Scottish Tory leadership contest close today. One candidate has already voluntarily dropped…

How to see the US election

22 August 2024 12:51 pm

We are under three months out from the US election. Let me give you two different analyses of what will…

Why the kids are manifesting a Kamala presidency

22 August 2024 9:47 am

Chicago “Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it?” Michelle Obama told the DNC Tuesday night. “America, hope is…

How RFK Jr.’s looming exit could rain on Kamala’s parade

22 August 2024 6:44 am

There are multiple reports, still unconfirmed at the moment but from reliable sources, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will end his independent…

Taming the wildfires

22 August 2024 2:38 am

As we approach Spring, there is a heightened chance that wildfires might develop across Australia. The perennial question as to…

Could Australian keyboard warriors be extradited to the UK?

22 August 2024 2:24 am

It is only natural for people who follow politics closely to reflect on the anti-immigration riots that sprang up in…

Putin is biding his time to seek revenge for Kursk

22 August 2024 2:13 am

Vladimir Putin, it seems, is procrastinating. Just when the war in Ukraine was going his way and the Russian army…

Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow piles the pressure on Putin

22 August 2024 1:04 am

In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine hit Moscow with ‘one of the largest’ drone attacks against the Russian…

Labour is losing fiscal credibility 

22 August 2024 12:41 am

Just how much longer will the government be able to sustain its assertion that the Conservatives left behind a £22…

Tories demand Treasury impartiality probe

22 August 2024 12:36 am

Whitehall has received a lot of attention of late, what with interesting civil service appointments prompting claims of cronyism. And now…

Has Germany run out of money to give to Ukraine?

21 August 2024 11:46 pm

Germany is Ukraine’s biggest military donor in Europe. On paper, it appears determined to ensure that Vladimir Putin’s act of…

Does France need a government?

21 August 2024 11:40 pm

France has been without an official government for seven weeks, the longest in the history of the Fifth Republic. A…

BBC blasted over Sir Brian’s ‘partisan’ badger doc

21 August 2024 10:48 pm

The Beeb is developing a habit of being the news rather than making it – and the upcoming release of…