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Yet another NHS Budget boost – but where’s the reform?
We won’t have to speculate about the details of the Labour’s first Budget much longer. But one tradition as old…
Justin Welby’s homosexuality reforms could still backfire
Last week, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2013, started leading the Church of England. He got off the fence…
Badenoch: My superpower would be reading minds
The Tory leadership contest has entered its final week and both finalists are ramping up their media appearances in a…
Macron is doing his best to alienate France’s Jews
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday for a three day State visit, during which time he will discuss trade…
Erik ten Hag cornered himself
‘I’ve proven in my career that I will always win,’ Erik ten Hag told the press last month. ‘In the…
Full list: Brits who don’t count as working people
It’s the great game obsessing all Westminster: who exactly constitutes a ‘working person’? During the election, Labour regularly said that…
Is Hamas ready for a ceasefire deal?
The president of Egypt has come up with the most modest of proposals to try and end the war in…
Please, Rachel Reeves, define ‘austerity’
What is a working person? This is the question Keir Starmer and other members of his Cabinet struggled to answer…
Listen: Streeting accuses private schools of ‘pleading poverty’
There are now less than 24 hours until Budget day, and this morning Wes Streeting was sent onto the airwaves…
Halloween indulges a very human obsession
Halloween is approaching. The Americans, who go very big on it normally, are distracted this year by the election, so…
Sir Keir suffers worst approval rating plunge of any new PM
While the Labour lot try and prepare the nation for Wednesday’s Budget announcement, the Prime Minister has had yet more…
Trump means safety to swing-state Americans
I have spent the past week travelling across ‘swing country’. Namely Pennsylvania and Ohio – two of the crucial states…
Britain’s population problem cannot be ignored
Never before have English and Welsh mothers produced so few babies. New data, released by the ONS yesterday, shows the number of…
Labour will regret its war on bus passengers
Aside from debates as to what actually constitutes a ‘working person’, the Labour government does ostensibly seem clear as to…
Street lights are costing Britain too much
The East Riding of Yorkshire is flat, prosperously agricultural and slightly off the beaten track. Deeply conservative, it isn’t the…
Washing it all away in the Maldives
The Maldives is an unusual country. It’s Asia’s smallest country, but also the world’s most geographically dispersed. It has Asia’s…
The two Dearborns that could decide the election
Dearborn, Michigan Leave Detroit and drive down Michigan Avenue, past the liquor stores, abandoned houses and weed-strewn fields; eventually you’ll…
Why is Lindsay Hoyle telling off Rachel Reeves?
Is the Speaker being a bit precious with his complaint about pre-Budget announcements? Lindsay Hoyle made a statement in the…
Volkswagen’s woes are no surprise
Where did it all go wrong for Volkswagen? The German carmaker is said to be planning to shut several factories…
Why was I hounded for speaking up for women’s rights?
The evening of 2 June 2019 is something of a ‘sliding doors’ moment in my life. I had just read…
Watch: Speaker torches Reeves on Budget leaks
Sir Keir Starmer is known to detest leaks – but what about when it is the Prime Minister leaking himself?…
Japan could soon lose one of its best assets
What now? This is the question on everyone’s lips here in Tokyo after a dramatic general election which looks to…
The easiest way into America
There has been no shortage of coverage of the 10 million-plus illegal aliens who have stormed our borders, the 5…
Will the OBR’s £22bn ‘black hole’ review vindicate the Tories?
Are the details of the alleged £22 billion fiscal black hole about to be revealed? In addition to providing assessments…
Trump calls for America’s New Golden Age at Madison Square Garden
No one with an open mind — you can even scratch the adjective — no sentient sapiens period can have…
