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I am a persecuted human rights icon
Thursday night, New Orleans. I have flown in from Los Angeles for work and am walking off the jet bridge,…
Andy Burnham’s ‘triple helix’ is bizarre, meaningless guff
Andy Burnham was at the government despatch box for the first time in nearly 17 years, having had the sort…
How is Burnham different to Starmer?
What is Andy Burnham really going to do that’s different from his predecessor? When he made his first address to…
Is Ceuta the beginning of the end for Pedro Sánchez?
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has accused social media networks linked to Israel and Russia of spreading misinformation that…
Burnham should drop the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill
Now that parliament has returned, the government has questions to answer about its approach to the legacy of the Northern…
The Middlesbrough carnage is just the beginning
The much-missed Rod Liddle, who knew Middlesbrough so well, would have had exactly the right words to describe the aftermath…
Sir Keir Starmer resigns from parliament
The great and principled man of the people, Sir Keir Starmer, is to stand down as an MP. Despite repeatedly…
The great teacher shortage is turning into a crisis
In recent years, it seems we have become stuck in a state of permacrisis. Headlines are dominated by the cost-of-living…
The SNP’s food price cap bill is stupid and cynical
If the first job of a government is national security the second probably ought to be food security. Odd, then,…
Why Trump can’t control the price of a burger
Good news, burger lovers. Help is on the way. Last month, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has…
Has Andy Burnham considered the consequences of early prison releases?
Victims will start receiving letters from today informing them that they will be affected by the early release of prisoners,…
The thinking behind Badenoch’s reshuffle
The scale of yesterday’s shadow cabinet reshuffle has taken most Tories by surprise, given a report by the Daily Telegraph…
Burnham is a big state man heading for disaster
Should public utilities be in public hands? I am prepared to see both sides of that argument, especially as some…
Iceland’s ‘No’ vote is a warning to Europe
This summer, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, bluntly told the American Council on Foreign Relations think tank that…
The unlikely defenders of Milo Yiannopoulos
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained and deported British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos last week. The official X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted…
Ali G and the death of comedy
Ali G: Who Iz I? is set to hit cinema screens next month. The return of this bling-bedecked denizen of…
Will the shadow chancellor scrap inheritance tax?
In Toryworld, big changes are afoot. Kemi Badenoch has started with the personnel: out goes Priti Patel, replaced as foreign…
Katie Lam gets Cleverly’s old brief
Of all the 26 Tory MPs elected in the new intake, none has grabbed more headlines than Katie Lam. A…
Revealed: the new Tory MPs promoted to Badenoch’s shadow cabinet
MPs from the 2024 intake are being appointed to the Conservative shadow cabinet as part of Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle, The…
Badenoch bets on a new economy team
Today is the day that Kemi Badenoch settles all family business. A Tory reshuffle that was expected to be small…
Priti Patel out as Kemi Badenoch shuffles her team
It seems that the shadow cabinet reshuffle is less of an event and more of a process. Traditionally, these events…
Has the internet killed comedy?
The comedians have bolted. Once, they were confined to underground clubs, scheduled radio, sitcoms and panel shows. But no more.…
The great lie of ‘multi-faith’ prayer rooms
Waiting in the ITN greenroom before a television appearance recently, I spotted a sign in the corridor for the multi-faith…
Simon Woolley is not fit to lead a Cambridge college
A man stands at a rally in Trafalgar Square, ranting that Jason Arday was murdered in a ‘lynching’ and ‘public assassination’ by…
I’m not convinced keeping PC Harper’s killers in jail is justified
Just in time to meet his self-imposed deadline of early September, the Prime Minister has found a way of preventing two cop-killers from returning to the…
