Liverpool Council’s taxpayer-funded ‘racial trauma’ staff counselling
Labour-run Liverpool City Council is drawing up plans for a taxpayer-funded counselling service for staff who feel affected by ‘microaggressions’…
Labour’s Poundland nationalisation gaffe
Another day, another Labour plot to nationalise a business. This time, the not-so lucky company in question is… beleaguered Poundland.…
Labour MPs declare war over sex
Oh dear. It is a day ending in ‘y’ – so of course another Labour backbencher is going to the…
Badenoch demands Labour stop apologising for slavery
Kemi Badenoch today threw down the gauntlet to Labour over its pathetic pandering on slavery reparations. Speaking aboard HMS Wellington…
Britons barely got a say in ILR shake-up
Only 18 per cent of respondents to the Home Office’s migration consultation were British citizens, new transparency documents reveal. Among…
Labour kickstarts Green council divorce proceedings
Labour has today formally begun divorce proceedings with Green council groups that failed to disavow the antisemitic ‘Zionism is Racism’…
Watch: Zia Yusuf reminds Alastair Campbell about Iraq
Alastair Campbell is on a book tour promoting his new work Persevilience, which Mr S has not read but hears…
Did Liz Truss use AI for her new book?
As a keen student of economics, Mr Steerpike has been hungrily devouring Liz Truss’s new book, Bank Job: A short…
Class war in the civil service
‘The Civil Service must be a magnet for the best and brightest,’ writes cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo on the civil…
Home Office spend thousands on ‘don’t rape women’ guide
Oh dear. It seems that the Home Office has got it wrong again. Back in August, there was an outcry…
Labour backbenchers throw tantrum over Jackdaw
It has been mere hours since Andy Burnham gave the go-ahead to Jackdaw, and Labour backbenchers are already throwing a…
Watch: Tory peers demand answers on Powell’s Palestine loving wife
The Jonathan Powell–Palestine Action debacle continued to cause the government painstaking awkwardness today – this time in the House of…
Tories take aim at polygamous marriages in welfare crackdown
The Tories are taking the fight to polygamous and incestuous marriage today, with a Bill to end welfare recognition of…
Chris Bryant throws a work-shy strop over NEETs question
Cabinet minister Chris Bryant threw a petulant strop on the airwaves this morning after the BBC dared to ask him…
A terror headache for Jonathan Powell
Oh dear. There is plenty to worry about when it comes to Britain’s national security: depleted armed forces, inadequate defence…
Watch: Feral Pro-Palestine student activists storm lecture on hostages
Feral pro-Palestine student activists stormed a lecture at City University yesterday over its focus on British-Israeli hostages. Human rights barrister…
Jenrick leaves BBC squirming over paedophile scandals
Today programme presenter Anna Foster was left scrambling for words this morning after Robert Jenrick took the BBC to task…
Watch: Burnham scrambles as Man City meetings pile up
The Andy Burnham–Manchester City saga continues today, with the Prime Minister ordering a ‘manual trawl’ to uncover any more mysteriously…
St Andrews rector race turns into Monty Python sketch
Just when you thought universities – and Scottish politics – couldn’t become any more of a joke, Mr S is…
Burnham’s Man City meetings mount up
Dear oh dear. Andy Burnham’s claim that he met senior Manchester City figures on just one ‘significant’ occasion is unravelling…
Sunak rakes in the speaking circuit cash
Rishi Sunak has raked in a tidy £303,000 for just two speaking engagements this month, the latest register of MPs’…
Watch: Burnham insists he won’t ‘cooperate’ with Greens – for now
It’s only taken weeks, but Andy Burnham has finally declared the Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ policy ‘antisemitic’ – and…
A very Lib Dem coup
Desperate Sir Ed Davey will plead with his party not to launch a coup against him at a showdown meeting…
Farage falls behind Badenoch in latest YouGov poll
There’s been plenty of talk about a ‘Badenoch bounce’ – but could today’s YouGov poll finally prove there’s something behind…
Civil servants threaten strike over demands to work less
Civil servants never cease to amaze with just how lazy and entitled they can be. Not content with switching on…
