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The SNP can only blame itself for its budget mess
Higher-than-expected public sector pay deals, social security reform and the SNP’s freeze on council tax have all contributed to putting…
Ofcom can’t be trusted to censor social media
It’s boom time at Ofcom. In the past few years, what was until recently the government-backed regulator for broadcasting, telecoms…
Steve Hilton wants to challenge Gavin Newsom for the chance to run California
This just in: Steve Hilton, former Fox News host and policy advisor to British PM David Cameron, wants to be…
Kamala campaign flip-flops on EV mandates
A campaign official for Kamala Harris said Tuesday that it is a “lie” that the vice president Kamala Harris supports implementing…
Zelensky says Kursk offensive is collateral in a victory plan
At a press conference in Kyiv today, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about his strategy to end Russia’s war. He has a…
Tories fire starting gun on voluntary chair race
It’s the Tory race on everyone’s lips. No, not the battle to be the next party leader but rather the…
What’s the real reason Starmer axed his national security adviser?
Keir Starmer is making a big mistake by cancelling the appointment of one of Britain’s top generals as national security…
Keir Starmer can’t blame the Tories forever
Keir Starmer’s rose garden speech today should be seen as a companion piece to last month’s melodramatic Commons statement by…
The Next equal pay victory is a dark day for British business
Who would bother to create jobs in modern Britain? Clothing retailer Next has done plenty of job-creation over the past…
Just how ‘painful’ will Starmer’s October Budget be?
Winter is coming. That’s the message from Keir Starmer’s set-piece speech this morning from the No. 10 rose garden. After…
What Carol Vorderman gets wrong about the TV industry
Carol Vorderman has given a speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival, in which she complains that the TV industry is too middle class. This…
Watch: Labour minister squirms on ‘passes for glasses’
At long last, it’s finally here. After five days of media trails, Keir Starmer’s equivalent of the Gettysburg Address will…
The rise of Isis in Russia’s prisons
On Friday, a hostage crisis unfolded at the IK-19 prison colony near Volgograd, the southern Russian city once known as Stalingrad. Four…
French Jews are living in fear
The Paralympics begin in Paris tomorrow but the feel-good factor generated in France by the Olympic Games at the start…
The horrors of an Oasis reunion
Twenty years ago, I suffered through seeing Oasis perform at Glastonbury. It remains one of the worst, if not the…
Sven-Goran Eriksson was an England great
Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has died aged 76, was an unlikely choice for the England job in 2000. He was inexperienced…
Calm down about the Notting Hill Carnival
There was recently a mass public party at which all sorts of offences were committed. As innocent attendees cut loose…
The culture wars are far from over
It’s only been a month since the new Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, declared that the ‘era of culture wars is…
Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel
Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…
How serious is the Starmer sleaze row?
Another week, another accusation of sleaze in relation to the Labour party. After initially winning some plaudits over the summer…
Two successive 2024 campaigns in a very strange election year
This is one very strange presidential campaign. That’s not just because it seems to go on forever. This one seemed…
Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech
In an extraordinary outburst, a government source has described the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, introduced by the…
In defence of Kirstie Allsopp
The jibe, commonly attributed to Napoleon, that England is a nation of shopkeepers, was at least a sort of compliment.…
Is anti-tourism becoming Spain’s Brexit?
Believing that membership of the European Union was undeniably beneficial for the UK economy, many Remainers struggled to understand why…
Ignoring the Taliban won’t end their reign of terror
The Taliban have always had a strange misogynist world view, weirdly preoccupied by sex. The first time they were in…
