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What the Boots Christmas advert backlash is really about

14 November 2024 1:44 am

Christmas television adverts are meant to be comforting, homely, and traditional. While some find these offerings, especially John Lewis’s, overly…

Why did China censor reports of a deadly hit-and-run?

14 November 2024 1:40 am

In many respects, the Chinese Communist party’s (CCP) response to one of the deadliest mass killings in recent Chinese history…

What disputes about trans athletes say about Democratic politics

14 November 2024 1:29 am

In the minds of many progressive Democrats, Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Dem, just committed an unpardonable sin. He told…

How the Harris campaign blew $1 billion in 107 days

14 November 2024 1:13 am

Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign spent more than $1 billion in three months, according to a detailed report from…

Keir Starmer has a problem answering questions

14 November 2024 12:45 am

Kemi Badenoch didn’t have the best start at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions: she asked a question that had apparently already…

Farage rated most favourable of Britain’s politicians

14 November 2024 12:17 am

As Sir Keir Starmer’s fortunes go from bad to worse, things only seem to be improving for Nigel Farage. While…

How podcasts swayed the 2024 election

13 November 2024 11:30 pm

Around 2:45 on the morning of November 6, Donald Trump beckoned Dana White to the lectern to address the sea…

The Guardian announces it’s leaving Twitter – on Twitter

13 November 2024 11:06 pm

The absurdity of the Guardian never fails to amuse. Now the lefty newspaper has decided it is too good for…

What can we expect from Trump’s defence pick?

13 November 2024 10:45 pm

As President-elect Donald Trump’s nominations to executive positions gradually emerge, it is difficult to know what to expect next. Elon…

The humiliating emptiness of David Cameron’s legacy

13 November 2024 10:29 pm

The humiliating post-premiership of David Cameron is the gift that keeps on giving. He might have been gone from No.…

The world isn’t listening to Keir Starmer’s climate preaching

13 November 2024 10:25 pm

Keir Starmer said he was travelling to Cop 29 in Baku intending to “lead the world on climate change”. But…

The dystopian police investigation into Allison Pearson

13 November 2024 10:05 pm

Here’s a tip. If you’re having trouble getting the police to promptly attend after a burglary, tell them the scumbag…

League tables alone won’t force the NHS to change

13 November 2024 9:41 pm

When Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that over half the new tax rises in her first Budget would go straight into…

Why hasn’t Marco Rubio been announced as Trump’s Secretary of State yet? 

13 November 2024 8:52 pm

Rubio, Rubio, wherefore art thou Rubio? How Little Marco, as Donald Trump dubbed him in 2016, must be squirming. It…

If anyone can fix America’s bloated state, it’s Elon Musk

13 November 2024 8:22 pm

Perhaps he will walk through the lobby of the Pentagon with a kitchen sink. Or fire the entire IT department…

Ireland’s suicidal Trump Derangement Syndrome

13 November 2024 6:19 pm

Ireland has a problem with America. Irish politicians and the country’s establishment would, of course, deny this. They would point…

How Ukraine can survive Donald Trump

13 November 2024 5:00 pm

Donald Trump’s triumph in the US presidential election is seen as a tragedy for Ukraine. Trump and Ukraine certainly have…

Would a Secretary Marco Rubio implement Trump’s policies?

13 November 2024 7:09 am

What on earth is Donald Trump thinking? That’s what many realists and restrainers inside and out of Washington are asking…

Closing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields is a net zero own goal

13 November 2024 5:24 am

Environmental campaigners are hoping to announce at Cop29 that they’ve halted two major oil and gas fields in the North…

How many parliamentary police are failing fitness tests?

13 November 2024 4:33 am

They’re the redoubtable men and women who keep our legislature safe. But is the thin blue line around the Commons…

The Terminally Ill bill deserves to die

13 November 2024 4:10 am

They tried, they really did. Dignity in Dying, the lineal descendent of the 1930s Euthanasia Society and therefore great-great-niece of…

The SNP must stop playing politics with the rulebook

13 November 2024 3:53 am

There are 18 months until the 2026 Holyrood election and already talk is ramping up about who will stand. There…

How will progressives explain Amsterdam’s latest anti-semitic violence?

13 November 2024 3:06 am

Since the scenes of Jews being hunted, beaten and kicked as they lay on the ground pleading for mercy in…

Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury?

13 November 2024 1:56 am

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has this afternoon announced he will resign from the role after days of pressure…

MPs should take their time over the assisted dying bill

13 November 2024 1:34 am

You don’t need to have a strong opinion either way on assisted dying to be concerned about the latest attempt…