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Is Keir Starmer calling Reform voters racist?
Back in the day – in 1992 – the think tank I worked for commissioned a series of focus groups…
Every time Farage was brought up at Labour conference
Whisper it, but there’s a name on everyone’s lips at Labour conference. A man who clearly seems to be going…
The Bar Council’s black internship scheme is racist
Human beings fundamentally hate blatant displays of unfairness. That’s why most people abhor those who jump or barge into queues,…
Reform’s hypocrisy over Labour rhetoric
All is not well in Reform HQ. On Tuesday, Nigel Farage broadcast a statement where he claimed that Sir Keir…
When will David Lammy learn that Nazi smears don’t work?
Is the Third Reich living rent-free in David Lammy’s head? Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister has accused Donald Trump of being a…
Why has Starmer dropped Blair’s university target?
Last week, Keir Starner swallowed Tony Blair’s argument for ID cards and announced that all we going to be forced…
Who will blink first to end the government shutdown?
The surprising thing is not that the federal government has shut down. It would have been surprising if it did…
The thought of Lucy Letby’s innocence is too appalling to bear
Lucy Letby’s barrister says she has ‘new hope’, as he prepares to submit 1,000 pages of fresh evidence that he…
Labour conference is more deluded than a Doctor Who convention
The Labour conference, given the government’s current levels of popularity – somewhere about the same rung occupied by, say, galloping…
‘Inequality’ isn’t changing children’s brains
Last week, the Office for National Statistics published data showing that income inequality in the UK has fallen to its…
Putin’s dads’ and lags’ army is struggling
The news that Vladimir Putin is pushing for 135,000 new young recruits in ‘the biggest autumn conscription’ for nearly ten…
Keir Starmer gave the speech of his life at Labour conference
The consensus before Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour party conference was that he needed to make ‘the speech of…
Starmer’s speech was nothing but stale, reheated guff
‘Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel’. So wrote Dr Johnson. Sadly for the good Doctor he was an…
Do Palestinians want Hamas gone?
Discussion of Donald Trump’s peace proposal for Gaza revolves around one question: who is for it and who is against…
What does Reeves want from businesses?
Is Labour serious about welfare reform? It hasn’t given that impression over the past year, given the flagship welfare reform…
Starmer: is Farage a patriot?
Keir Starmer’s keynote speech in Liverpool was punchier and more powerful than the Prime Minister’s usual interventions. The Labour leader…
The ‘Great Spiritizing’ of the top brass
“Today we end the War on Warriors,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, author of the book The War On Warriors,…
The problem with Labour’s plan for ‘NHS Online’
Party conferences are less about conferring than about speeches and announcements. Today Keir Starmer revealed NHS Online, a virtual hospital…
Bessent’s private message reveals a Milei gamble
The first lesson for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is that digital photography has totally changed politics, as wiser practitioners have…
Why have Democrats mainstreamed a terrorist?
On September 26, the Chicago Teachers Union, representing all of the teachers in America’s second largest city, posted on X…
Labour’s leave to remain overhaul is thin gruel
Labour is again running scared on migration. At the party’s conference yesterday, Shabana Mahmood made a clear pitch to middle Britain on the subject. ‘You may not…
Labour kick Owen Jones out of conference
Much of Labour conference has seen MPs taking aim at Nigel Farage and his Reform party, but it would appear…
Will Trump turn Gaza into the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’?
There are plenty of legitimate questions to be asked about the Trump-Blair peace plan for ending the conflict with Israel.…
The political climate suits Wes Streeting right now
Timing is everything in politics. So it was intriguing to see Wes Streeting – the great hope of Labour moderates…
Streeting: We need Rayner back
Well, well, well. Angela Rayner may have left the government some weeks ago but the mark she made in one…
