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Spain will regret its 100 per cent expat property tax
They drive up prices. Rents go through the roof. And the locals can no longer afford a home. The Spanish…
Will the AfD’s deportation pledge win over German voters?
Next month’s German federal election on 23 February revolves around the disputed meaning of a single toxic word: ‘remigration’. Until…
Labour MPs turn on Starmer over grooming gangs
Will Keir Starmer have to change his tune on a public inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal? Just last week,…
Reform neck and neck with Labour, poll reveals
Uh oh. 2025 hasn’t gotten off to the best start for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot and YouGov’s first Westminster…
The ‘grooming gangs’ delusion is finally being shattered
The re-eruption of the rape gangs scandal has shone a dazzlingly bright light on the language that makes us flinch…
The Sussexes’ tone deaf attack on Meta
Who do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex think they are? Since their quasi-abdication from the royal family five years…
Can the jihadists of Syria’s HTS be trusted?
By the gates of the great 8th-century Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, a group of Central Asian-looking gunmen stand in the…
Trump’s team will show Rachel Reeves how it’s done
As Trump Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent rises, full of promise for his confirmation hearing in Washington next week, the…
Here’s what Greenland should do about Donald Trump
Greenland’s prime minister Múte Egede has responded to Donald Trump’s overtures to buy the island by saying it is time…
Reeves will remain Chancellor until next election, No. 10 insists
Another day, another Labour drama. Rachel Reeves has returned from her weekend China trip to a rather uncomfortable atmosphere back…
Bring back lynx to Britain
The surprise appearance and subsequent safe capture this week of a seemingly tame family of Eurasian lynx in the Scottish…
Charles Darwin and the zealotry of Just Stop Oil
Just when you thought it was safe to go to a museum, art gallery or World Heritage Site, Just Stop…
Is Westminster forgetting about the grooming gangs already?
Remember grooming gangs? Last week’s big story has amazingly already been superseded by other political rows, but they came up…
When is a fire an earthquake?
The fire now engulfing whole neighborhoods in Los Angeles will soon engulf the politicians who failed to protect them. The…
Should we give Trump’s realism a chance?
In one place at least, the reaction to Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal has…
The SNP’s ferries disaster isn’t over yet
The Scottish ferry, the Glen Sannox, has completed its first passenger journey, 2,610 days after it was infamously launched with fake…
The fatal flaw in Starmer’s AI plan to save Britain
You’d be forgiven for thinking the government’s new AI Opportunities Action Plan lacks ambition. While frontier AI businesses in the…
AI won’t save Britain with one quick trick
Obviously, artificial Intelligence (AI) is a boom industry that will transform many other industries and make fortunes for some people.…
Spain is stoking Europe’s migrant crisis
The new year in Spain began much as the old one ended, with a huge influx of illegal immigrants arriving…
Watch: Just Stop Oil protestors graffiti Darwin’s grave
Readers might have hoped Just Stop Oil would have left their bizarre stunts in 2024 – but sadly it wasn’t…
Nicola Sturgeon announces divorce
To Scotland, where there is trouble in nationalist paradise. Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has this morning announced that she…
Labour’s kowtowing to China will cost Britain
When the security services accessed the mobile phone of Yang Tengbo, the alleged Chinese spy who became a confidant and…
Rachel Reeves is making the same mistake as Liz Truss
Rachel Reeves returns from China this morning to face growing accusations that she has lost her grip on the public…
Djokovic must forgive and forget his shoddy Covid experience in Australia
Another Australian Open tennis tournament, another Novak Djokovic media sensation. As play gets under way at Melbourne Park, Djokovic the…
Was Rachel Reeves’s China trip worth it?
Rachel Reeves is on her way back to the UK after a brief visit to China over the weekend. The…
