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Angela Rayner’s staggering admission at PMQs
Angela Rayner stood in for Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs, and she opened with fireworks. ‘They’re desperate to talk about my…
Who will pay the price for the boost in defence spending?
Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the government will increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP has been warmly welcomed,…
French bureaucracy cannot be defeated
When Emmanuel Macron launched his campaign to win the French presidency eight years ago, he promised to cut the number…
What Israel should do about Hezbollah
On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched its deepest attack into Israel since the current round of hostilities between Jerusalem and the Iran-supported…
The trouble with David Cameron’s China links
In the years following his resignation as prime minister, David Cameron appeared to become the poster child for elite capture by the…
Rayner outsmarts Dowden at PMQs battle of the deputies
Few politicians have looked more pleased with a joke than Oliver Dowden did with his first offering at Prime Minister’s…
How to defuse the pension timebomb
Another day, another smart report arguing for higher payments into our pensions. Standard Life and WPI Economics have published a…
The Rwanda Bill won’t survive contact with reality
After significant wrangling in parliament, the government has finally passed its Rwanda Bill – while managing to resist any significant new…
Watch: Greens grilled on ‘zero murders’ pledge
To the fantasy land of the Greens, where no promises are off the table — no matter how surreal. Just…
Humza Yousaf and his ridiculous, feigned outrage
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf is a politician with two settings. If he’s being asked about a difficult issue –…
Frank Field: 1942-2024
Frank Field, the former Labour minister and crossbench peer, died today aged 81. Below is an interview he did with…
Narendra Modi is unbeatable
Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a…
Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?
There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza.…
Does Labour really love the St George’s Cross?
Following last night’s mammoth parliamentary ping pong session, a funny thing happened early this morning. As various members of HM…
Sunak and Scholz gear up for an awkward meeting in Berlin
Rishi Sunak arrived in Poland today to announce a £500 million boost in aid to Ukraine, using the trip to…
Campus Gaza protests are crippling US universities
University campuses across the United States are facing a growing wave of student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.…
Why did it take Rishi Sunak so long to up defence spending?
Britain is putting its defence industry on a ‘war-footing’, the Prime Minister has said, as he vowed to boost spending…
Why is Labour so ‘angry’ about our next man in Washington?
Civil service appointments rarely generate much excitement in Westminster. But it’s not every day that Britain’s most senior diplomatic posting…
Rishi Sunak vows to boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP
After finally getting his Rwanda legislation through the Lords, Rishi Sunak is in Warsaw today to meet with Nato Secretary-General…
Prisons have lost the war on drugs
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian best seller Brave New World, published back in 1934, envisaged a society where stability was enforced by…
What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?
There is one big reason why a summer general election is unlikely, however tempted the Prime Minister might be to…
Australia doesn’t need a Ministry of Truth
Two unrelated acts of stabbing violence, first the random murderous rampage of a knife-wielding man in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, followed…
Elon Musk doesn’t know how to turn Tesla around
The share price is in freefall. Sales are sliding at an accelerating rate as customers lose interest. The Chinese are…
Does Channel 4 think this counts as balanced?
We are now just nine months out from the latest possible general election, which means that in a year’s time…
UNRWA hasn’t earned our trust in Gaza
Before 7 October last year, observers had long suspected an uncomfortable symbiosis between UNRWA, the UN organisation tasked with organising…
