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The free world has abandoned Hong Kong
Forty years ago today, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and China’s Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, an…
Is Kemi Badenoch too nice to be Tory leader?
Kemi Badenoch got tough with Sir Keir Starmer at PMQs. Not tough enough, but at least she led on a…
A reckoning with DEI pedagogy
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracies and programs have become ubiquitous in the corporate and educational sectors. More than half of…
The real reason people don’t like Elon Musk funding Reform
The meeting between Nigel Farage, the property developer Nick Candy and Elon Musk has prompted an all-too-predictable fit among media…
Labour splits over WASPI compensation
Christmas may be just around the corner, but not everyone is in festive spirits quite yet. The mood has certainly…
Young people are ruining Guinness
James Joyce called Guinness “the wine of the country.” Now it feels a bit more like the Coca-Cola of alcohol…
Kemi Badenoch failed to pin down Starmer at PMQs – again
Kemi Badenoch has become fixated on accusing Keir Starmer of not telling the truth at Prime Minister’s Questions, to the…
Starmer makes the most of No. 10’s gift shop
Jetting off on one of his (many) trips abroad last month, Keir Starmer was snapped on his plane sipping from…
Top Tory tries to woo Elon Musk
The talk in Westminster is how much Elon Musk is going to give to Reform. But might the Tories might…
Reform sack Scots organiser over terror links
Nigel Farage’s party has been having a rather good time of it lately, after winning its first five seats in…
Why hasn’t Justin Trudeau resigned yet?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been walking on a political tightrope for years. His balance is unsteady. The threads…
Labour is staring down the barrel of an inflation crisis
With job vacancies falling, and with GDP contracting, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves might have assumed that her final week before…
Is the Chagos deal dead in the water?
Is the Chagos Islands deal dead? Ever since Keir Starmer and his foreign secretary David Lammy announced plans to hand…
Rising inflation will make Rachel Reeves’s job harder
It was already unlikely the Bank of England (BoE) was going to cut interest rates this week. Having pledged a…
The Waspi women don’t deserve compensation
Labour is right not to pay compensation to the Waspi women – those who feel aggrieved that the state pension…
What Nigel Farage gets wrong about ‘two-tier justice’
Stories of two-tier justice are back. On Monday, Victoria Thomas Bowen, the model who doused Nigel Farage with milkshake on…
Shame on George Carey
There are many grey areas in this safeguarding saga. So it is nice when some black and white emerges. It…
Macron has become a liability for the EU
It’s been a year to forget for Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz. The German Chancellor’s coalition collapsed last month and…
Mauritius rejects Sir Keir’s Chagos deal
As if Starmer’s Labour government hasn’t had enough bad news lately, it now transpires that Mauritius has rejected the Sir…
Humza Yousaf’s top five worst Covid WhatsApps
Well, well, well. It has now emerged that the SNP government will ban WhatsApp on official devices in the wake…
Memories of a lonely, beautiful Christmas
My parents gave up on Christmas altogether once I left home for university. They had never been people for celebrations…
Democrats are about to get a do-over for their 2017 mistakes
Could 2025 give Democrats a do-over for how they misplayed the results of Donald Trump’s first election? Early signs point…
Farage’s Musk meeting is uncomfortable for the Tories and Labour
It’s happened. To the likely dismay of both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage has met with Elon Musk…
Liz Kendall’s WASPI women U-turn
Another day, another drama. Liz Kendall, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has finally confirmed that the WASPI women will not…
How to avoid another Chinese spy scandal
As the fallout continues from the latest China spy scandal, it is hard not to conclude that Labour’s policy on…
