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Ed Miliband is an astonishing Commons performer

11 June 2025 2:08 am

I’m not totally sure where they keep Ed Miliband in between his Commons appearances. Perhaps some sort of deep freeze…

Progressive Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson hammers nail into DEI coffin

11 June 2025 1:38 am

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services didn’t dominate the headlines – but it…

Tories score double the donations of Reform

10 June 2025 11:42 pm

How much have political donors gifted to their party coffers? Well, the results are now in. Today’s Electoral Commission figures…

Can Trump have Newsom arrested for fiddling while LA burns?

10 June 2025 11:30 pm

A great American city is descending into chaos, and the leader most capable and concerned enough to save it is…

David Bull is Reform UK’s new chairman

10 June 2025 11:15 pm

‘There are no disasters, only opportunities.’ Boris Johnson’s famous mantra is being embraced by Nigel Farage as he tries to…

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch the October 7 video?

10 June 2025 10:06 pm

Did Greta Thunberg refuse to watch footage of Hamas’s 7 October atrocities? That’s the accusation being made by Israel’s defence…

Watch: Eco-activist Greta Thunberg deported from Israel – by plane

10 June 2025 9:37 pm

Well, well, well. After the failed attempt by Greta Thunberg and her comrades in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition on ship…

Civil servants told to quit if they don’t like Gaza stance

10 June 2025 9:14 pm

To Whitehall, where Foreign Office staff are kicking up a fuss about the UK government’s stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict.…

Keir Starmer must raise defence spending higher and faster

10 June 2025 8:41 pm

Mark Rutte, the former prime minister of the Netherlands, has been secretary general of Nato for less than nine months.…

How has the media wronged Nadiya Hussain?

10 June 2025 8:10 pm

Nadiya Hussain’s recipes have become staples in households across the country and acquired for the TV presenter and cookery writer…

Sizewell C won’t save Ed Miliband

10 June 2025 7:25 pm

Ed Miliband has suddenly realised that you cannot run an electricity grid on intermittent renewables alone. The Energy Secretary’s announcement…

Farewell to the Frederick Forsyth I knew

10 June 2025 7:17 pm

We writers generally live dull and boring lives, tied to our desks painfully wresting words out of mundane experiences: not…

Dawn French’s Gaza video is unforgivable

10 June 2025 5:58 pm

Like all of you, I’m sure, I’ve got accustomed to celebrities – particularly actors and comedians, but also pop stars…

Labour’s National Insurance hike is starting to bite

10 June 2025 5:32 pm

The unemployment rate has risen to 4.6 per cent, the Office for National Statistics has revealed. This morning’s figures mark…

Ukrainians are paying a heavy price for Donald Trump’s indifference

10 June 2025 4:32 pm

On the night of Monday, June 9, Russia carried out a combined strike on the territory of Ukraine, launching ballistic…

Rachel Reeves’s winter fuel U turn is indefensible

10 June 2025 4:22 pm

Rachel Reeves has shown just how spineless this government is by U-turning on her flagship policy of cutting winter fuel…

Is Hamas’s grip on Gaza weakening?

10 June 2025 4:00 pm

The emergence of Yasser Abu Shabab and his ‘Popular Forces’ militia in eastern Rafah has become an unexpected fault line…

Reform’s soap opera won’t turn off voters

10 June 2025 3:36 pm

The last week has been a rare cheery one for the Left; not only did Elon Musk and Donald Trump…

No more Mr Nice Nige

10 June 2025 3:22 am

Rachel Reeves was visiting a gardening club for the retired. ‘Do you come here every week?’ she simpered at some…

Reeves’s winter fuel U-turn is a mistake

10 June 2025 3:08 am

Having already angered older voters with their controversial changes to winter fuel payments last autumn, Labour has now achieved a…

What’s new in Reeves’s spending review?

10 June 2025 2:55 am

When Rachel Reeves last week tried to shift the narrative around her spending review – from one of fiscal restraint…

Bannon on LA riots: ‘We’re in World War Three’

10 June 2025 2:41 am

It’s all war all the time inside Steve Bannon’s War Room in Capitol Hill.  “We’re in the Third World War,”…

Nigel Farage’s grand plan to reindustrialise Wales

10 June 2025 2:40 am

‘Our ambition is to reindustrialise Wales,’ Reform’s Nigel Farage announced to a small room lit up with turquoise lights at…

What Poland can teach the Internet Right

10 June 2025 1:57 am

A change in politics is coming. Until now, the progressives were the ones with networks, stemming from Joe Biden’s White…

Gavin Newsom blew his chance to stand for law and order

10 June 2025 1:42 am

Gavin Newsom had a golden opportunity this week to prove that he’s learned something in the time since the summer…