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Will the Chancellor widen the public-private pension gap?
Could Rachel Reeves really be so brazen as to lumber private sector employers with having to pay national insurance contributions…
What’s the point of the ‘gay ban’ veteran compensation?
Veterans who were dismissed from the armed forces because of their sexuality have criticised the government for the inadequacy of…
Labour-linked censorship group plans to ‘kill Musk’s Twitter’
Donald Trump’s campaign has submitted an official complaint accusing Labour of breaking US electoral law over the secondment of volunteers, just days…
Why is Labour axing the Tories’ most successful education policy?
By any measure, the free schools programme has been a resounding success. If you judge schools by how much progress their…
The British are coming! Labour’s comedy of errors in the US election
Our hapless Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest…
The mystery of the missing Sue Gray
What has become of Sue Gray, the Prime Minister’s former Downing Street chief of staff, who was rather unceremoniously removed…
Lidia Thorpe has emboldened protests against King Charles
King Charles and Queen Camilla flew to Samoa for the Commonwealth leaders’ meeting early on Wednesday, after completing their visit…
The gratuitous trade in images of Palestinian pain
It is getting to the point where I am dreading going online. For I know the minute I open my…
Can America keep being the world’s policeman?
America is retreating from the world stage. The country’s senile president appears absent from the dramatic events unfolding in the…
Kamala shows her stern side in NBC interview
Small wonder that Donald Trump is dodging a new debate with Kamala Harris. If her latest television interview was anything…
Gang member jailed for kidnap and torture released by Labour
The second round of Labour’s early prison release scheme saw around 1,100 inmates released on Tuesday – and Justice Secretary…
Do not under any condition let Liz Cheney babysit your kids
I don’t understand why Liz Cheney thinks we would trust Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff with our children when we…
Why is Trump beating Kamala to the Arab vote?
Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in…
Andrew Bailey’s pessimistic pre-Budget warning
With a week to go until Rachel Reeves’s first Budget, Andrew Bailey has today sounded a note of gloomy caution.…
Joe Biden wants Bibi to be careful
On 20 June 2019, President Donald Trump rescinded an order he had given for a military attack on Iran in…
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,…
