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Nigel Farage’s biggest gift to the Labour party
Labour has a lot of reasons to be thankful for Nigel Farage. Reform was already creeping up on the Tories…
Hating Caitlin Clark for all the right reasons
Over the past two weeks, one of the biggest culture war conversations in America has had absolutely nothing to do…
How many more houses will Labour actually build?
Is Labour really going to help get 80,000 people on the housing ladder over the next five years under its…
Watch: Sunak grovels over D-day ‘mistake’
Oh dear. The story of the day may well become the story of the election campaign as Prime Minister Rishi…
Voters won’t forget Sunak’s D-Day snub
It’s hard to think of anything Rishi Sunak could have done that would cause greater offence to the British sensibility.…
Rishi Sunak is bad at politics. Who knew?
Everyone is finally noticing that Rishi Sunak is rubbish at politics. Given the scale of his faux pas in bailing…
Sunak’s D-Day departure was extraordinarily disrespectful
Rishi Sunak’s decision to leave Thursday’s 80th anniversary commemoration of D-Day in Normandy was extraordinary, stupid and disrespectful. He accompanied…
Backlash grows over Sunak’s D-Day mistake
When Rishi Sunak’s team were mapping out this week, Wednesday and Thursday were viewed to be non-political days as the…
Greens investigate ‘antisemitic’ candidate posts
As the general election date creeps ever closer, the Green party has found itself in hot water. It transpires that…
The Green party is terrifying
Is the Green party the most controversial force in British politics? It’s certainly giving Reform a run for its money. In…
The Tories don’t have a plan for the criminal justice system
The Conservative party fought the 2019 general election with a manifesto commitment to establish a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice.…
Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day commemorations
Rishi Sunak has just apologised for missing the international D-Day event in Normandy to fly back early to the UK…
Why is Douglas Ross standing for parliament again?
Not content with being a referee and leader of the Tories in Scotland, Douglas Ross seems bent on making himself…
Joe Biden’s D-Day performance is evidence of his mental unfitness
President Joe Biden spoke in Normandy on the eightieth anniversary of D-Day Thursday — and only slightly made a fool of…
Why did Sunak leave the D-Day commemorations early?
Politics took a back seat on Thursday as the great and good of the British establishment marked the 80th anniversary…
When did Gareth Southgate get quite so ruthless?
Gareth Southgate, England’s semi-intellectual, waistcoat-strapped manager, knows he’s on his last chance at Euro 2024. He’s failed to bring a trophy home three…
Alex Salmond: We are not splitting the SNP vote
Is Alex Salmond feasting on the misery of an SNP that, having hit its high watermark, is now having to…
Could Labour change its tune on Trident?
As election day looms closer, parliamentary candidates continue to wreak havoc on party campaigns. This time Labour is in the…
What could explain Douglas Ross’s Westminster U-turn?
Scottish Tory Leader Douglas Ross has a side hustle as an assistant referee for the Scottish Football Association. Now, Scotland’s…
What happened to the ‘gigafactories’?
Remember all those ‘gigafactories’ that were going to decarbonise our road transport and create many thousands of green jobs into…
If the West is to stay the same, a lot will have to change
My favorite line in Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard comes midway through the first chapter. The times are unsettled. The Risorgimento is…
‘God hates pride,’ from the Colorado GOP to you
“The month of June has arrived and, once again, the godless groomers in our society want to attack what is…
Olaf Scholz unveils Germany’s deportation plans
‘Anyone who threatens our freedom and disturbs our peace should be afraid.’ That was Olaf Scholz’s message today as he…
Sunak’s crime crackdown won’t pay off for the Tories
The Tories are pledging to reshape our homicide laws if they win re-election. There could, as in many US states,…
The trouble with the Tories’ ‘Family Home Tax Guarantee’
There is a very big problem with Jeremy Hunt’s Family Home Tax Guarantee, though which he promises a Conservative government…