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What’s John Swinney got against two-spirit Scots?
You may have thought that the Scottish government had abandoned gender metaphysics after the collapse of the ‘Gender Recognition Reform…
More early releases won’t solve the prison crisis
September’s tranche of early releases did not go as smoothly as the government might have hoped. Footage of delighted prisoners…
Starmer’s top five charmers released from prison
The second round of prison inmate releases is taking place today, with over one thousand people walking free from their…
Paddington shouldn’t have been given a passport
Paddington has an official passport. The makers of the new Paddington film Paddington in Peru revealed this in passing to the Radio Times today.…
The five worst takes on the Chris Kaba case
Yesterday brought the news that the police officer accused of murdering Chris Kaba in 2022 had been acquitted. Racial justice…
Opening a bottle with… Soho House’s Kate Bryan
Asked how best to get to know new cultures, travel luminary Anthony Bourdain once said: “Drink heavily with locals whenever…
Kemi is right about absent fathers
Kemi Badenoch MP keeps being compared to Margaret Thatcher. But the truth is she has taken on the persona of…
India will never join China’s anti-western alliance
On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party…
Keir Starmer’s prisons dilemma
Another month, another batch of prisoners released early. Today marks the release of the second tranch of offenders as part…
Britain cannot leave the South Pacific to Xi Jinping
Samoa is a land of sunburnt shorelines and majestic waterfalls. It is a Pacific paradise that, in a perfect world,…
Has Rachel Reeves lost control of spending?
Some thought Rachel Reeves’s experience at the Bank of England meant she ‘knew how to run the economy’. She would…
The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large
There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…
The cowardice of the Chris Kaba case
Since 2010, British police have shot dead 30 people. This works out at an average of around 2.1 people per…
The TV industry should be worried about AI
ITV are searching for an ‘AI expert’ to ‘create TV shows, films and digital content’, and to use this possibly…
Labour should be wary of scrapping short prison sentences
What is the point of a short prison sentence? David Gauke will no doubt think carefully about that question now…
Badenoch beats Jenrick in Mumsnet ratings
The Tory leadership contest will wrap up in less than two weeks and members have been busy casting their votes…
Mass prisoner releases aren’t working
Today, over a thousand offenders will walk out of jail early as part of the government’s ongoing emergency scheme to…
Newcastle, Saudi Arabia and desperate decline of English football
Is a major scandal over the sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund…
Khan takes a pop at Kuenssberg over election tweet
To City Hall, where tonight Sadiq Khan welcomed journalists from across the city to a Diageo-sponsored drinks reception. The London…
Do we really need more ‘national conversations’?
Other than being fired out of a cannon to raise funds for the NHS, what could Wes Streeting possibly learn…
The problem at the heart of the Chris Kaba case
There are few moments more serious than when the state takes the life of a citizen, when a police officer…
Too many people are being recalled to prison
One of the new government’s first decisions was to announce that most prisoners would be released 40 per cent of…
Why Kamala Harris will lose
When you look back on the 2024 presidential election and try to understand why it was that Kamala Harris lost,…
The turnout election: a tale of two ground games
In the past two months, the Harris-Walz campaign has texted five times asking me to join its door-knocking efforts in…
Unpacking the race for the US Senate
In the middle of the most chaotic presidential election in the modern era, with its death race through senility, assassination…
