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After 13 years of Tory rule, is this it?
There were no big surprises in the King’s Speech today. That’s a shame. Rishi Sunak and his ministers like to…
Charles’s debut King’s Speech was a triumph
The King’s speech was a damp squib – but for that we should blame Rishi Sunak rather than Charles III.…
Why Scunthorpe steelworks needs saving
Scunthorpe is an industrial garden town, or so the signs welcoming you to the town say. It’s written beneath the…
The King’s Speech was all about the next election
‘My ministers’ focus is on increasing economic growth and safeguarding the health and security of the British people for generations…
Why isn’t Canada cracking down on this Indian student visa scam?
Canada’s rift with India continues. It’s been almost two months since Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau accused ‘agents of the…
Sunak is right to push ahead with new North Sea oil licenses
The green lobby has found another way of attacking the government for giving the go-ahead for new oil and gas…
The Covid Inquiry is exposing lockdown’s dodgy models
Did we lock down on a false premise? Yesterday was Ben Warner’s turn at the Covid Inquiry. He was an…
Not even America’s legal system can stop Trump
‘I beseech you to control him if you can,’ Justice Arthur Engoron. told Donald Trump’s lawyer in court yesterday. To which the…
What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?
It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there…
Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem
Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…
How contentious will the King’s Speech be?
This morning King Charles will take part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The…
The Met’s strange approach to protest
Demonstrations against Israel, some attracting many thousands of people, have become a regular occurrence. We have grown used to the…
Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?
The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security…
The danger of Hamas drone attacks
The rise of the combat drone is changing the nature of the battlefield, as Israel has already found to its…
Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?
One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…
In defence of ‘rip-off’ airline charges
The Conservative party is 25 points behind in the polls. Its backbenchers are scrambling around to find new jobs, and…
The trouble with Olaf Scholz
German chancellor Olaf Scholz still doesn’t get it. ‘Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf’ (the fish stinks from its head) is…
Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?
Rishi Sunak was attacked by the green lobby for delaying the outright ban on new petrol and diesel cars from…
Next year’s US election promises a crisis
There’s only a year to go until the most complex and consequential US presidential election ever. Ukraine, the Middle East,…
Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north…
What can be done about AI porn?
The foul-mouthed puppet musical Avenue Q, way back in 2003, caught the spirit of the age to come. ‘The internet is…
Is the West losing interest in Ukraine?
There’s a very different tone coming from Kyiv these days. Speaking to Time magazine, Volodymyr Zelensky had just returned from Washington…
Are we diluting the meaning of ‘mental health’?
What does ‘mental health’ mean? Is the answer to that question undergoing a generational change, as younger people become more…
Oliver Dowden: I have ‘grave concerns’ about Armistice day marches
As the conflict in Gaza continues, there is increasing division over the crisis here in the UK. Keir Starmer continues…
Watch: Michael Crick versus GB News
Some compulsory weekend viewing from GB News. The channel invited veteran broadcaster Michael Crick onto Neil Oliver’s show yesterday to…
