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IRS whistleblowers allege special treatment for Hunter Biden
The Department of Justice denied agents investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business deals access to evidence and witnesses, according to…
Do the public really support Mick Lynch’s rail strikes?
Britain is once again stuck at a red signal – with yet another set of rail strikes bringing the country’s trains…
Nigel Farage, NatWest, and the sinister rise of corporate ‘purpose’
The plot is thickening. If it turns out NatWest CEO Alison Rose was the source for BBC business editor Simon…
The shadow of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler still haunts Germany
Seventy-nine years ago today, 20 July 1944, Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a much-wounded young Wehrmacht officer, packed a briefcase…
Britain has a Martin Lewis problem
Martin Lewis, the Money Saving Expert, has become the sage of the cost-of-living crisis. He is closing in on national…
The Coutts scandal shows the trouble with going cashless
The outrage over the cancelling of Nigel Farage’s bank account has uncovered the lengths to which elements of the British…
Will MI6’s Russian recruitment drive work?
Sir Richard Moore, head of the Secret Intelligence Service – MI6 – follows the tradition of only giving one public…
New Zealand mourns after Auckland gun rampage
Two people are dead after a gunman armed with a pump-action shotgun stormed a building in Auckland’s central business district…
Watch: Nigel Farage launches fresh attack on Coutts
Coutts gave Nigel Farage the boot as a customer because their reputation risk committee didn’t approve of his political views.…
Jason Aldean’s critics have clearly never been to a small town
Country music superstar Jason Aldean has come under fire for a song that condemns violent crime and promotes the Second…
Why have the Tories given up on London?
Have you ever heard of Susan Hall? Until a month ago, I hadn’t. Now that she has been selected as the…
Why Threads is failing to win over Twitter users
When Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta released Threads earlier this month, it looked to be the biggest threat to Twitter in the…
Philip Larkin, the Poet Laureate who never was
We’ll never know if Philip Larkin, one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century, would have been a…
Coutts must be held to account over Nigel Farage
When Nigel Farage said Coutts had closed his bank account and claimed political victimisation, many thought he was making it…
Why I won’t grow up
Recently, a famous American novelist came to stay at my place in London. In her later Substack post she described…
Coutts’ reputation committee has destroyed its own reputation
Nigel Farage has been cancelled by his bank because their reputation risk committee doesn’t approve of his political views and…
Revealed: The Coutts files on Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage’s bank account with Coutts was closed earlier this year. Here is the bank’s dossier, obtained by Farage using…
How investors could benefit from the cooling housing market
There are, of course, many people struggling with their mortgage repayments. There are first-time buyers who have been especially hard…
The strange disappearance of China’s foreign minister
It is strange and surreal, even by the standards of the looking-glass world of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Foreign…
Susan Hall wins Tory mayoral race
The Tories now have their candidate to take on Sadiq Khan next May. Susan Hall, the right wing member of…
What would Trump’s second-term foreign policy look like?
Former president Donald Trump is in a world of legal trouble. Not only is he the first president in history…
Sunak still has his work cut out to halve inflation
The rate of inflation has fallen again. CPI rose 7.9 per cent on the year in June, down from 8.7…
Will the BBC now apologise to Nigel Farage?
Oh dear. It seems that Auntie has done it again. This time it’s the row over Nigel Farage’s bank account,…
Trans guidance for schools can’t come soon enough
The Department for Education has delayed yet further its long-awaited transgender guidance for schools. Rishi Sunak had pledged that the document would…
Watch: Nigel Farage claims Coutts account shut over his ‘values’
The plot thickens. Nigel Farage claims he has got to the bottom of why he was ditched by the elite…
