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Labour’s by-election nightmare
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has not had the easiest time in government so far – and last night’s local…
Will the ‘value for money’ tsar really overrule Rachel Reeves?
Is there any word more laughably misapplied than ‘tsar’? We have already had an ‘antisemitism tsar’ and now we are…
Why France’s media is keeping quiet about Michel Barnier’s health
France’s 73-year-old prime minister, Michel Barnier, underwent surgery last weekend for a lesion on his upper neck. According to the…
Can Labour save its Budget?
After the Office for Budget Responsibility’s assessment of the Budget was published on Wednesday, the cost of government borrowing started…
Watch: Darren Jones admits Budget will hit working people
Well, well, well. It’s day three of the Budget and it appears that Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement has begun to…
Team Badenoch vs Team Jenrick: A beginner’s guide
The end is in sight. The polls have closed. On Saturday, the result of the Tory leadership contest will be…
There may soon be peace in Lebanon
If the leaks and briefings are to be believed, Israel is getting ready to end its war in Lebanon. With…
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke has the perfect riposte to the anti-Israel bores
Finally, a celeb has stood up to the Israel bashers. It took the famously dour frontman of Radiohead to do…
The Women’s Equality Party deserves its fate
Of all the grotesque modern types who cast a silly-yet-sinister shadow over the dog-days of Western civilisation – the Queers…
Britain can grow faster than the OBR thinks
The UK economy may end up growing a bit faster by the end of this decade than the Office for…
Labour’s farm tax makes no sense
Amid the furore over Lord Alli’s contributions to Lady Starmer’s wardrobe the new environment secretary, Steve Reed, was able to…
When it comes to trash talk, you can’t beat the Donald
‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a computer programming principle which states that the quality of a system’s output is determined…
Can Rachel Reeves calm the markets?
The more investors dig into Labour’s first Budget, the less they seem to like it. After the Office for Budget…
China hawks hit back at Lammy rapprochement
First, it was the Chagos Islands. Then it was David Lammy’s visit. Now many in Westminster are asking: when it…
What’s upset Kim Jong Un?
When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the…
A warm welcome in Salem from women and witches
Pulling up at Marblehead’s Harbor Light Hotel, my oldest friend and I wasted no time securing two counter seats at…
Treasury staff leave a mess after Budget tax hikes
For most Brits, there was little to celebrate in Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement – but that didn’t stop Treasury staff…
Businessman tears up over Labour’s Budget
The first full day post-Budget has not been a happy one. While Labour’s spinners are hard at work trying to…
Why should we trust the IMF?
It wasn’t an aggrieved business leader, facing a sharply increased wage bill thanks to the Budget, that led the 8…
Will Rachel Reeves hike taxes even higher?
Rachel Reeves has spent the morning out on the media round trying to sell her first Budget to the public.…
Revealed: Reeves’s tax rises expose Labour’s misleading manifesto claims
Casting his mind back to the election, Mr S recalls a heated debate about which party would raise taxes most.…
Sturgeon paid £25,000 for election night punditry
The SNP’s Dear Leader has not had the smoothest 18 months since her resignation last year – what with the…
Is Ofcom guilty of double standards over GB News fine?
GB News has dealt with a number of Ofcom complaints in its time, but now things have become a little…
Labour’s £2.9bn defence boost doesn’t go nearly far enough
Anyone who is serious about the condition of the armed forces and Britain’s defence policy will not look a gift…
Rachel Reeves’s Budget plan is much worse than you think
‘No plan for the economy’ is the charge being made against the government, as Conservatives take to the airwaves following…
