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The threat of Chinese headhunters
It is hard to say what is more shocking, dozens of former British military pilots lured by vast salaries to…
Now the Aussies mock Truss too
How are the mighty fallen. Once, Liz Truss was the toast of Canberra, the champion of AUKUS and a Free…
Beware a Tory in a hurry
Liz Truss will not lead the Conservative party into the next general election, despite her rather hesitant claim to the…
Support the strikes!
There are no two groups more different than climate protesters and striking workers. The former are mostly plummy layabouts, posh…
Rishi Sunak lost. Get over it
The WhatsApp message doing the rounds in Westminster yesterday was succinct: ‘Rishi PM. Hunt Chx. Penny FS. It’s a done…
Stop blaming Tory members
With Jeremy Hunt installed as the representative Sensible and Penny Mordaunt answering questions in the House, Liz Truss has been…
Britain needs more honesty about unemployment
Is low unemployment causing us more problems than we realise? The suggestion might seem absurd, offensive even. It’s reminiscent of…
Is TRUTH Social doomed to fail?
Following his suspension from Twitter in the wake of January 6, the question of where Donald Trump would take his…
Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven
A secret hour-long recording of an October 2021 meeting of Los Angeles city politicos surfaced last week, as California’s midterm…
Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?
Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…
The mystery of chronic Lyme disease
I struggled to pull myself out of bed in the morning. I slept for hours at lunch breaks and was…
Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?
Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…
Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler
Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…
Mordaunt faces the music as Truss's understudy
When the phrases ‘the Prime Minister is not under a desk’ and ‘I don’t think there has been a coup’…
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become a cultural touchstone
At the beginning of 1962, President John F. Kennedy had high hopes for a peaceful year with the Soviet Union,…
Mordaunt: Truss isn't 'hiding' under a desk
Oh dear. Liz Truss ducked the opportunity to come to the House to explain Jeremy Hunt’s U-turn earlier today. So…
Will the Nury Martinez fallout break Los Angeles politics?
The resignation of Nury Martinez, the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council, is a dramatic development that…
Watch: Tory Muppets show
Spiraling markets and grim-faced MPs don’t always make for the best of television viewing. Indeed, given the ongoing case in…
How Truss can secure her legacy
Liz Truss needs an exit strategy. Unless she can eke past Canning’s 119 days, the Prime Minister will go down…
Will there be a revolt on the Tory right?
What is the point of Liz Truss’s government? Expect more MPs to ask that question today after Jeremy Hunt’s statement…
It’s not easy to regain market trust
The government’s position has become so precarious – and its credibility with the markets so low – that even waiting…
Did Putin use Iranian martyr drones on Kyiv?
As Iranian munitions have hurtled through the air at the front line in the Donbas, and as Iranian suicide drones…
Joe Biden has jolted China
The chip war between China and America is heating up, with an increasingly assertive Joe Biden battling with Xi Jinping as…
Will Jeremy Hunt’s U-turns deepen recession?
Just two weeks ago, Liz Truss told the Tory conference that her priority was ‘growth, growth and growth’. But how…
Who would vote for the Conservatives now?
As the Labour party’s lead reaches 27 per cent or more, it would be easy to place the entirety of…
