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Is King Charles really being open about his finances?

26 June 2026 6:46 pm

When it was announced that King Charles was going to become the first monarch in history to release details of…

Tapped out of government

26 June 2026 6:35 pm

Labour’s never-ending psychodrama took yet another magnificent twist today. It looks as if Sir Keir Starmer won’t be alone in…

Andy Burnham is not the messiah

26 June 2026 4:31 pm

Labour’s almost messianic embrace of Andy Burnham, the near-crazed glint in the eyes of the party’s backbenchers when they whisper…

Prime minister Andy Burnham spells trouble for the southeast

26 June 2026 12:30 pm

Andy Burnham is not giving much away as to what a government led by him would look like. Given that it…

Why won’t the UN believe all women, including Jews?

26 June 2026 12:15 pm

Why must Jewish women beg to be believed? Why does that sacred mantra of the progressive classes – “Believe women”…

Why the crackdown on Raise the Colours might be good news

26 June 2026 12:00 pm

Oxfordshire County Council stamped down hard on Raise the Colours’ flag-flying operations this week. Having complained that flags on lamp-posts…

A surgeon for Burnham’s Cabinet?

26 June 2026 3:59 am

With just weeks until he is set to waltz into No. 10, Andy Burnham has been quick out of the…

Labour’s conversion therapy bill is extremely dangerous

26 June 2026 3:19 am

The Labour government has just announced plans to push forward with a ban on conversion therapy, apparently to protect LGBT+…

Is air conditioning actually bad for the planet?

26 June 2026 3:04 am

The Met Office has extended the heat warning as the heatwave continues into its fourth day – and yesterday saw…

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Can Israel fend off Hezbollah without alienating America?

26 June 2026 1:47 am

As the 60-day period of negotiations stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US gets under way,…

Lowe and behold: Restore turns on its leader

26 June 2026 1:37 am

Oh dear. It looks as though Rupert Lowe’s merry gang of ethnonationalists are in a spot of trouble. Prominent Restore…

Is Andy Burnham really not going to whip his MPs?

26 June 2026 1:30 am

Most of Labour’s 411 MPs arrived in Parliament’s Westminster Hall on Monday afternoon for a photo with their new messiah.…

Britain can’t afford to lose easyJet

25 June 2026 10:45 pm

With its garish bright orange livery and the ferocity with which its algorithm squeezes a few extra pounds out of…

Trump’s ‘greatest’ rally ever

25 June 2026 10:16 pm

Freedom 250’s “Great American State Fair” opened on the National Mall yesterday – just not with a concert, as initially…

What Iran could learn from Denmark

25 June 2026 9:35 pm

Iran is looking increasingly Danish, which sounds like a strange thing to say. What could Iran (a theological dictatorship which…

Why does Oxfordshire County Council have a problem with the England flag?

25 June 2026 5:16 pm

The Liberal Democrats, who control Oxfordshire County Council, have once again shown their illiberal credentials and dire lack of political…

The most appalling thing about the NHS maternity scandal

25 June 2026 4:39 pm

By the end of this year, Britain will have had (at least) seven prime ministers in the past decade –…

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Why Jack Schlossberg lost

25 June 2026 6:42 am

Jack Schlossberg was, until yesterday, a high-profile candidate in New York’s 12th congressional district who seemingly had everything you might…

Good intentions alone won’t fix Britain’s maternity crisis

25 June 2026 2:09 am

The Ockenden Maternity Review, published today, finds the NHS is not to be trusted – not for maternity care, possibly…

Labour MPs couldn’t handle the truth from Kemi Badenoch at PMQs

25 June 2026 1:55 am

The end of Sir Keir’s premiership, and especially his last few PMQs, was always going to be less of a…

Would Andy Burnham scrap the triple lock?

25 June 2026 1:35 am

As he prepares his government, prime-minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham has made plenty of expensive promises. He wants money for defence, for…

Did Kemi Badenoch take the personal jibes too far at PMQs?

25 June 2026 12:11 am

Keir Starmer came to PMQs wearing that look of post-resignation relief that we’ve grown all too used to seeing on…

Labour ministers lose it with Badenoch after PMQs

24 June 2026 11:52 pm

? WATCH: Kemi Badenoch calls Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson a “spiteful class warrior” full of “incompetence” Starmer: “She grew up…

No, Israel isn’t ‘deliberately targeting’ children in Gaza

24 June 2026 11:43 pm

Once again, a United Nations body has accused Israel of the gravest crimes imaginable: this time, the deliberate murder of…

The rise and rise of America’s radical left

24 June 2026 9:06 pm

Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed three fellow socialists in the New York City Democratic Congressional primaries and all three won last…