The plan to house migrants on barges could soon come unstuck
Frank Sinatra once sang about the seductive properties of bright and shiny ephemera. ‘Her heart will sing, singa-linga, wearing baubles,…
Is it game over for Boris Johnson?
I don’t know about you, but it’s getting rather tiresome for me now. The Boris Johnson saga, that is. Did…
The triumph of Gary Lineker is a disaster for the BBC
The BBC-based sitcom W1A centred on a running joke about how the spinelessness and ineptitude of senior management led them…
Lineker’s solidarity strikers could speed up the end of the licence fee
I never expected staff at an entire department of the BBC to put their shoulders to the wheel of the…
Rishi Sunak seems serious about stopping the Channel boats
So long as the extensive pre-briefing of the Illegal Migration Bill turns out to be a reasonably accurate reflection of…
Theresa May is the true villain in this latest Tory Brexit war
The blond bombshell has criticised Sunak’s new Windsor Framework as not passing the Brexit test of taking back control. He’s…
Britain’s borders have become a joke
Were anyone still in doubt about the wholesale abuse of our asylum system by would-be economic migrants then the ever-changing…
Zahawi’s sacking could be Sunak’s ‘John Major moment’
It is a very dangerous time to be a Conservative MP and not just because the party is trailing by…
The Tories are tired of Boris’s ceaseless scandals
The political world splits in two whenever fresh evidence emerges that Boris Johnson does not think that life’s rules and…
The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
The High Court Rwanda ruling is a win for the Tories
Today’s High Court ruling that the government’s plan to send irregular migrants to Rwanda on a one-way ticket is lawful…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration plan could be a game changer
Rishi Sunak today gave a potentially game-changing statement in the Commons, finally committing the Conservatives to effective action when it…
Will Braverman turn on Sunak over the Channel crisis?
Finally the Tory government appears to have realised that its serial mishandling of the Channel boats issue is the top…
Why do so many people now hate the Tories?
When Labour lost Hartlepool to the Tories in a parliamentary by-election 18 months ago, Keir Starmer was reported to have…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Will Rishi Sunak get away with ignoring voters on the right?
Conventional wisdom has long held that the Conservatives win elections from the centre ground – including territory just to the…
A Swiss-style Brexit would delight Nigel Farage
Someone near the top of government – let us give him the random alias Heremy Junt – is stoking the…
The remarkable transformation of Keir Starmer
Amid all the frenetic changes of leadership in the Conservative party, something important has been overlooked about the Labour party:…
At sea: can Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
Can Rishi Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
The Channel migrant crisis is spiralling out of control
When did the scale of illegal immigration into the UK via Channel dinghies become a first order political issue for…
Backing Badenoch and Braverman is key to Sunak's success
What do you do when you are a prime minister presiding over a desperately difficult economic outlook riddled with features…
Can Rishi Sunak rescue the Tories from electoral wipeout?
‘At least I’ve been prime minister’ – those were the reported words of Liz Truss on realising that she had…
The Boris strategy needs to change
Had Boris Johnson simply wished to use the current vacancy for prime minister to remind us all of his superstar status…
Booting Boris was a catastrophic error
To call it a shambles is an insult to the many perfectly respectable shambles that take place each day up…
Could the Tories’ downfall be Reform’s big chance?
The Reform party, under its leader Richard Tice, invented Trussonomics before Liz Truss – launching an economic recovery plan in…
