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Are we heading towards a British Donald Trump?
The Tiverton and Wakefield by-elections are, of course, shatteringly bad for the Conservatives and Boris Johnson. They should finally destroy…
Boris will keep losing until he tackles inflation
The Tories took a serious beating in Thursday’s by-elections. Whilst Boris Johnson and his government refuse to take responsibility for the…
How the war on Roe was won
When did it become certain that American women’s abortion rights would fall? The Supreme Court’s ruling that ‘Roe was egregiously…
The end of Roe is a victory for Conservatism, Inc.
On a day many Americans on both sides of the abortion issue thought would never come, the Supreme Court reversed…
Guerilla warfare and targeted assassinations: Inside Ukraine's partisan resistance
Dmytro Savluchenko was one of Moscow’s useful idiots: a Ukrainian advocate of Russkiy Mir (or ‘Russian world’), Putin’s idea of a kind…
A pro-life revolution
Set aside your opinions about abortion for a moment. Throw down the fluttering placards about “THE PRO-LIFE GENERATION” and “KEEP…
Boris’s unapologetic by-election response
Boris Johnson has not accepted responsibility for the two by-election defeats. You could have written this line at any point…
The Price of being Katie
Katie Price has, yet again, avoided prison. She was up at Lewes Crown Court on Friday, this time for breaching…
Zelensky’s peculiar Glastonbury appearance
Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t quite make it onto the Glastonbury line-up posters. Perhaps Michael Eavis, the owner of ever-so Worthy Farm,…
The truth about the Roe v. Wade abortion 'ban'
You wait decades for landmark reforms in America and then, like culture-war buses, two come along at once. Earlier this…
Tories shouldn't bin Boris yet
If only they had waited until today. Had Tory MPs cleared the threshold for a confidence vote in Boris Johnson…
Is Boris heading for a 1997 moment?
Why was the Tory defeat in 1997 so heavy? One of the reasons was that the anti-Tory vote tended to…
In defence of striking
Here’s something I’ve learned over the past few days. The right loves the working classes when they’re voting for Brexit,…
Boris, Zelensky and Britain's new special relationship
Boris Johnson has been accused of shamelessly using the war in Ukraine for his own political ends. The timing of his…
Macron's state of denial
Crisis? What crisis? Emmanuel Macron emerged from his bunker tonight to speak to France for the first time since his…
Russia is sidestepping American oil sanctions
When the European Union finally made the decision to ban 90 percent of Russia’s crude oil imports by the end…
Zelensky’s homophobia row reveals a divided Ukraine
A peculiar row has broken out in Kyiv over the role of one of Zelensky’s best-known advisers. Oleksiy Arestovych is…
Boris Johnson’s inflation contradiction
As Boris Johnson tries to limit pay rises to bring down inflation, ministers have no explanation for why planned rises in…
Inflation is a social evil, so why don't our leaders care?
It was a ‘destroyer of society’, a ‘tax on ordinary people’s savings’ and a threat to social order. You don’t…
Joe Lycett's donkey joke isn't a matter for the police
There’s a word for countries in which you might get collared by the police because someone took offence to your…
The Tories are picking inflation winners and losers
Inflation rose to 9.1 per cent on the year in May, taking the UK’s consumer price index to a 40-year-high.…
Rishi continues the crypto-craze
Poor Rishi Sunak. The Chancellor was once the golden boy of British politics: the free-spending, Insta-loving, charm-oozing toast of the…
Boris is falling into the Macron trap
You can’t blame Boris Johnson for jetting off to Kyiv last week for another meet-and-greet session with Volodymyr Zelensky. He…
The EU's solidarity for Ukraine is a sham
The EU will formally add Ukraine to its list of candidate countries this Friday. But if you look carefully beneath…
Mike Pence and the clash of the GOP titans
Mike Pence began his political career as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf,” a calmer and more collegial kind of conservative radio…
