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Motability won’t give up its lucrative business without a fight

15 June 2025 4:27 pm

Motability, the scheme set up to provide vehicles, scooters and powered wheelchairs to disabled people, has become something of a…

How to be a better father

15 June 2025 4:25 pm

Children in this country are desperate for fathers to rise to the occasion. All the research indicates that a key…

This is Netanyahu’s Churchill moment

15 June 2025 4:25 pm

History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in precisely…

On the ground at the President’s military parade

15 June 2025 1:22 pm

Washington, DC “Every other country celebrates their victories, it’s about time America did too,” Donald Trump told a whooping, albeit…

Minnesota is no longer the “state that works”

15 June 2025 8:41 am

Fifty-two years ago, TIME magazine featured Governor Wendell Anderson on its cover, dressed in the state’s unofficial uniform of a…

Trump’s military parade is no show of strength

15 June 2025 6:10 am

“This is a big day for America!!! DJT” wrote on his Truth Social account, kicking off the day of his…

Starmer agrees to grooming gangs inquiry

15 June 2025 5:03 am

This evening, Keir Starmer has announced he does want a national inquiry on grooming gangs after all. The Prime Minister…

The British right is embracing direct action

15 June 2025 1:18 am

First, it was Robert Jenrick tackling fare dodgers. Then it was Gareth Davies pursuing a thief. You might be forgiven…

Phillipson visits zero private schools in 11 months

15 June 2025 12:07 am

It’s been quite the year for Bridget Phillipson. The under fire Education Secretary is now regularly tipped as one of…

Is Israel ready for a long war with Iran?

14 June 2025 10:22 pm

The spectacular Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear, missile and military sites and their commanders and scientists astonished the Israeli public…

Netanyahu wants to topple the Iranian regime

14 June 2025 10:14 pm

Last night, the Middle East witnessed its fiercest clash yet as Israel and Iran traded blows. A daring Israeli operation,…

Paul Johnson: The spending review was ‘incomprehensible’

14 June 2025 8:50 pm

Rachel Reeves’s spending review was the ‘most incomprehensible speech I’ve ever heard from a chancellor’, according to Paul Johnson of…

Iranian rockets will not dim Israel’s resolve

14 June 2025 8:33 pm

Tel Aviv, Israel Israelis last night once again found themselves seeking shelter as the Islamic Revolutionary forces in Iran launched…

We should rejoice in Trump’s military parade

14 June 2025 7:00 pm

Today, you can choose to follow your inner adolescent and search for one of the Soros-funded “No Kings” protests cropping…

David Beckham deserves his knighthood

14 June 2025 6:11 pm

Leonardo DiCaprio got his Oscar after 23 years. King Charles was crowned after 70 years. And now David Beckham will…

The post-Brexit Gibraltar deal is going down badly in Spain

14 June 2025 4:45 pm

Conservative and Reform politicians have denounced this week’s post-Brexit Gibraltar deal as a betrayal. ‘Gibraltar is British, and given Labour’s…

Can Starmer be trusted not to give away the Falkland Islands?

14 June 2025 4:30 pm

No sooner had the Chagos deal been struck than attention turned to the Falklands. Would Keir Starmer support the Islands…

The danger of Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment

14 June 2025 4:15 pm

‘Do I think some women were born with penises? Yes,’ declared Stella Creasy in 2022, in a moment of characteristic…

The impossible politics of ‘ancestral remains’

14 June 2025 3:30 pm

In 2002 the remains of Sarah Baartman were buried in her South African homeland. She was among thousands of people…

Will Israel kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei?

14 June 2025 4:37 am

After Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised new retaliatory attacks against Israel following its unprecedented military operation, there has…

Russian forces break into yet another Ukrainian region

14 June 2025 1:34 am

Vladimir Putin’s summer offensive is fully under way: all day and night, Russian infantrymen run at Ukrainian positions in endless…

Tim Farron, the last of the old-school liberals

14 June 2025 1:14 am

Today the Assisted Suicide Bill returned to the House of Commons. Amid its many flaws and complications, perhaps most important…

Labour MP’s migrants claim contradicted by own government data

14 June 2025 12:00 am

Uh oh. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has found himself in a tight spot after his Question Time…

Trump has been outmaneuvered by Netanyahu

13 June 2025 11:30 pm

The surprising thing isn’t that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked Iran. It’s that the current bombing campaign didn’t occur sooner.…

Jolyon Maugham wades into abortion debate

13 June 2025 11:04 pm

No one was especially interested in Jolyon Maugham’s take on next week’s abortion amendments, but the Babe Ruth of the…