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Yvette Cooper: ‘We are closing care recruitment from abroad’
Under pressure from the success of Reform, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new measures designed to reduce net migration.…
The police have lost it
When hyper-liberal identity politics went into overdrive in that year of madness, 2020, one of the greatest casualties in this…
Watch: grooming gang victim criticises Lucy Powell
The row over Lucy Powell’s outrageous comments are not going away anytime soon. It was on Any Questions last week…
Could the death penalty return?
The attack on a prison officer by Axel Rudakubana, the killer of the three girls at a dance class in…
Justice by skin color resurrects Jim Crow
In America, we are told justice is blind. Hennepin County wants her to peek. Last week, the Department of Justice…
Has war healed Ukraine’s great divide?
The phrase divide et impera has echoed through history, its power as relevant today as it was in ancient Rome.…
What is the Tate Modern for?
Twenty-five years ago today, the Tate Modern first opened its doors to the public. The main attraction: a nine metre-high…
The North Korean saboteurs funding Pyongyang’s nuclear programme
If you think that it is only Chinese infiltrators roaming across the West, including on our very shores, then think…
The assisted suicide bill has shown parliament at its worst
Kim Leadbeater has earned plenty of praise for her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life), or assisted suicide, Bill. The…
The Trump administration is not pro-life. Why?
President Donald Trump is continuing his consistently inconsistent stance on abortion as his administration’s Justice Department has asked a federal…
The India-Pakistan ceasefire is a triumph for Trump
After more than four days of clashes since the early hours of Wednesday morning, India and Pakistan have agreed to…
Reform take over its first Conservative club
It seems that Reform are not content to just take the Tories’ seats. After coming for their MPs, councillors and…
Why the First Sea Lord stepping down is so shocking
The news that First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key, the head of the Royal Navy, has stepped down from his…
Why was Axel Rudakubana given a kettle?
Late last night, news broke of another attack by a high-profile prisoner at what should be one of our most…
Why the Germans don’t do it better
When I was a girl – shortly after the repeal of the Corn Laws – a common rhetorical question was…
Is there an off-ramp for India and Pakistan?
‘What happens next?’ is the worried question I keep getting from Indian and Pakistani friends as military exchanges between the…
Why Ramzan Kadyrov doesn’t really want to resign
Once again, the ruler of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is making headlines. And once again, he has announced his intention to…
Why the Tories must bring back Boris
The British people adore Boris Johnson. That is unarguable. It’s why he doesn’t lose elections. It is therefore very funny…
Pope Leo’s papal economics
The Catholic Church now has its first American pope, but Robert Francis Prevost’s papal name of Leo XIV is perhaps…
What happened to Canterbury?
War is raging over Canterbury’s future. Only two Labour councillors are left in the whole of Kent, in the north and…
Why Britain must expand its nuclear arsenal
About once a month, the Royal Air Force scrambles Typhoon fighters for something called a Quick Reaction Alert (QRA). Typically,…
Football’s beer ban makes no sense
Should football fans be allowed to have a pint in the stands during a game? Luke Charters, the Labour MP…
Roadblocks prevent Trump from deporting millions of illegal immigrants
“You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.” So goes the bartenders’ refrain to customers at closing…
Victory Day has been a triumph for Vladimir Putin
It was almost like old times, but also a sign of the new. Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade passed off…
What’s taking Britain so long to build new nuclear power plants?
When Putin attacked Ukraine and sent global gas prices soaring, Boris Johnson set out a plan to make Britain energy…
