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Thank God for Elon Musk
Like many people this weekend, I couldn’t tear myself away from videos of the booster rocket of Elon Musk’s Starship…
Israel’s murder problem
A wave of violence is convulsing Israeli society. It’s not caused by Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, or Iranian attacks. Instead, it’s…
Is Kemi Badenoch scared of Robert Jenrick?
Is Kemi Badenoch running scared? It’s not an accusation often levelled at the shadow housing secretary, who is usually criticised…
Tories try to hammer Labour on freebies
It seems that one of the great posts in British politics has been filled at last. The title of ‘Minister…
Will Labour keep its promise not to hike National Insurance?
Despite getting off to a rocky start – including nearly losing £1 billion worth of investment – Labour’s much-anticipated Investment…
Watch: ‘Apparatus of state turned on Alex Salmond’, fumes David Davis
Heartfelt tributes were paid to the late Alex Salmond in the Commons today. A number of politicians from across the…
SpaceX has put Europe to shame
The flawless launch of SpaceX’s 5,000-ton Starship and its Super Heavy Booster, and the precision recovery of the booster on…
Five flops from Labour’s investment summit
It’s investment summit day for Sir Keir’s Labour government and, like much else about Starmer’s reign, it hasn’t got off…
Brwa Shorsh and the failure of Britain’s asylum system
Postman Tadeusz Potoczek had completed his deliveries for the day. At around 3 p.m. on 3 February, the 60-year-old was…
Beeb investigated MasterChef star over alleged sexual remarks
These days, it seems the Beeb is better at being the news than making it. Now the co-host of BBC…
Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem
As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President…
The fatal allure of Hitler’s favourite mountain
‘The hills are alive,’ warbled Julie Andrews as she strode through a verdant Alpine mountain meadow, ‘with the sound of…
The discovery of Irvine’s boot on Everest raises more questions than answers
Andrew Comyn ‘Sandy’ Irvine disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory. For a…
Even the BBC’s critics should want to protect the World Service
When Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, addresses the Future Resilience Forum in London this afternoon, he has a…
Who is slipping through Europe’s porous borders?
In the same week that over 1,000 migrants arrived in England, the head of MI5 admitted his agency had ‘one…
Lammy’s EU brag backfires
To Luxembourg, where David Lammy is making headlines yet again. The Foreign Secretary has today bragged about his attendance at…
Is Labour’s Britain really an investor’s paradise?
So, is it really time in invest in Britain, as the heads of fourteen banks and other financial institutions have…
Why isn’t Elon Musk at Starmer’s investment summit?
Happy summit day, one and all. Today is the new Labour government’s first big business bash, as proceedings kick off…
Can Lebanon ever be free of Hezbollah?
Lebanon is teetering on the edge of a seismic political shift, facing increasing pressure both from internal factions and external…
Hezbollah’s drone strike won’t deter Israel’s campaign
Last night, a single Hezbollah drone managed to inflict more damage on Israel than 200 Iranian ballistic missiles so far.…
Braverman’s Cambridge cancellation exposes the campus free speech crisis
Anti-fascism ain’t what it used to be. It used to mean signing up to go to fight Franco’s fascists in…
Labour were right to protect Taylor Swift
Still making headlines, it seems, is one of the more trivial scandals to have dogged the Labour government in its…
Javier Milei could be in trouble
President Javier Milei isn’t believed to have attended Sir Paul McCartney’s Buenos Aires concerts last weekend, but if he had,…
Will Labour break their tax pledge?
We are now just three weeks away from Labour’s first Budget and the mood music out of the Treasury is…
Jonathan Reynolds shoots down Transport Secretary’s P and O comments
Jonathan Reynolds: Transport Secretary’s comments on P&O Ferries ‘not the government’s position’ This week, Transport Secretary Louise Haigh described P&O…
