James Hanson

I’m sick of social media running bores

23 March 2025 4:30 pm

The phenomenon of people living their lives vicariously through social media is nothing new. We’ve all got that friend who…

Nigel Farage will regret his anti-Zelensky comments

4 March 2025 9:30 pm

‘I just thought Reform cared about national borders and sovereignty’. So sighed the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer at the end of…

The endless entitlement of Waspi women

25 February 2025 8:00 pm

In this godforsaken era of feigned victimhood, is there any group less worthy of our sympathy than the Waspi women?…

Can Britain defend itself and have a welfare state?

20 February 2025 10:55 pm

No one can say we weren’t warned. As early as 1971 America was warning that it could reduce its defence…

Donald Trump is making the same mistake as Neville Chamberlain

14 February 2025 9:15 pm

It is easy to forget how popular Neville Chamberlain was in the autumn of 1938. Proclaiming ‘peace in our time’…

I’m sick of fare dodgers on the tube

9 February 2025 5:00 pm

Go to any tube station at rush hour in London. Literally any. Then wait by the barriers and watch. Within…

Hollywood luvvies have become Donald Trump’s useful idiots

29 January 2025 6:05 pm

In events that were foreseeable to anyone outside America’s cultural elite, the actress and popstar Selena Gomez is facing an…

How Donald Trump could really help Ukraine

22 January 2025 11:46 pm

There was surprisingly little in Donald Trump’s inaugural address about Russia and Ukraine, aside from a vague pledge to ‘stop…

Why didn’t Rishi wait?

23 May 2024 3:43 am

So there we have it. Westminster’s favourite parlour game has finally concluded. We now know the date of the general…

Reform is a busted flush without Nigel Farage

3 May 2024 9:46 pm

Any insurgent political party needs a breakthrough moment. For the SNP, it was Winnie Ewing’s victory in the 1967 Hamilton…

Nigel Farage has left the jungle. What now?

11 December 2023 9:09 am

Nigel Farage has left the jungle. For a brief moment it looked as if the original Brexiteer might pull off…

Could Nigel Farage win I’m a Celebrity?

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

This weekend, Nigel Farage enters the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – reportedly for a fee…

Young people are right to hate the Tories

29 September 2023 5:30 pm

According to the latest YouGov polling, just 1 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds plan to vote Conservative at the…

What is the point of Ed Davey?

23 September 2023 5:00 pm

Since being elected as a Liberal Democrat MP in 1997, Ed Davey has been through many phases: conventional Paddy Ashdown…