Is Labour sidelining Keir Starmer’s oracy drive?
Back in September last year, Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled his party’s flagship education policy: a drive for oracy, or…
British policing needs a total rethink
If you started again with a clean slate, a blank sheet of paper, you would never design a system of policing like…
Donald Trump is still the funniest politician of our age
Donald Trump is arguably the most unsuitable candidate of any major western political party in living memory, let alone leader…
What is Chris Whitty up to?
There was a period during the pandemic in 2020 when the pubs were open but you could only go to…
Yvette Cooper slams Reform as ‘right-wing wreckers’
To the Labour party conference, where Starmer’s army is celebrating its first meet as a part of government in over…
Can Israel avoid provoking all-out war with Hezbollah?
Israel has carried out its largest-scale operation against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the summer war of 2006. Wave after…
Gary Neville’s tin-eared defence of Keir Starmer
Gary Neville, the Sky Sports pundit and former Manchester United footballer, can’t help himself when it comes to tedious political rants.…
Labour must do more to end violence against women
How serious is the Labour party about tackling male violence against women and girls? In June, while campaigning for the…
Keir Starmer needs to sell his government
Keir Starmer has his big speech today at Labour conference and, like Rachel Reeves’s offering yesterday, the Prime Minister plans…
What is Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’?
President Zelensky is in the United States for his latest, possibly last, throw of the dice before the American election,…
Is Scottish Labour really back?
Labour’s first conference from government in 14 years might not be taking place against an ideal backdrop, with the Prime…
What is the point of Sue Gray?
Keir Starmer takes centre stage at Labour’s conference in Liverpool today, but whatever the Prime Minister has to say, the…
Will things really get better under Labour?
Labour’s honeymoon didn’t last long. Keir Starmer won power less than three months ago with a vow to ‘change Britain’.…
The quest for diversity could finish off University Challenge
Universities today are well-known as places where progressive, hyper-liberal politics predominate. It’s only logical, therefore, that the cry for equality…
The hidden costs of furlough
It wasn’t long ago that a Conservative government was congratulating itself for achieving the lowest unemployment figures in half a…
This is a ten-year plan, says Labour health minister
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has made a lot of noise about the perilous state of the NHS, insisting the…
Labour MP: regulate media to ‘make Starmer’s job easier’
To Liverpool, where all the wit and wisdom of Sir Keir’s Labour party is gathered. Starmer’s army has come to…
‘I was the devil incarnate’: An interview with John Boyne
John Boyne still doesn’t really know why he fell foul of the transgender mob. The author of The Boy in…
Refugee Council’s closed door policy
When the Tories were in power, one of the harshest critics of the government’s Rwanda scheme to deport asylum seekers…
Oh no, Oprah!
Mea culpa. I used to be one of Oprah’s biggest fans – recorded and watched every single show, bought her…
A sunny Saturday in Lviv
The quickest way to get to Lviv is to fly to Warsaw and then pick up a car and driver…
Watch: Reeves’s hypocrisy over freebie row
Back to Labour’s freebie row, which has spilled over into conference week. Sir Keir Starmer’s top team is desperate to…
The plight of Hatun Tash shames Britain
There is a Christian preacher, a woman, who has suffered the most heinous persecutions. She has been chased by mobs,…
Fines, crimes, and a big white kangaroo
With a Queensland state election looming and a federal poll in the wind, I’ve already made my mind up –…
Has Labour got anything new to say at its party conference?
Have you learned anything about this Labour government from the conference speeches so far? Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ address to the…
