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What’s the problem with zero-hour contracts?
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to unveil her workers’ rights bill this week – and ‘exploitative’ zero-hour contracts…
Labour’s House of Lords peerage reform is just hot air
Labour’s crackdown on the House of Lords continues apace. In an effort to reform the upper house, parties could soon…
Why North Korea is cutting off all roads to the South
If you visit South Korea, you may be startled at the presence of road signs pointing towards Kaesong and Pyongyang:…
The SNP is in a donations row of its own
The thing about being holier than thou is that you actually have to be holier. Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s leader…
Sir Keir’s curious Falklands claim
While Sir Keir Starmer and outgoing Tory leader Rishi Sunak went tête-à-tête in today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr S is…
The Tory heirs to Blair are no more
So the Conservative party is not going to try to become ‘more normal’ in the eyes of establishment centrists after…
Rishi Sunak is the most effective opposition leader since Tony Blair
Rishi Sunak’s fleet-footed performance at Prime Minister’s Questions exposed many of Keir Starmer’s shortcomings as Prime Minister. Sunak is the…
Weathering the storm: on the ground in hurricane-ravaged Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida I’ve lived in seven US states and five countries, but when I arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida…
James Cleverly knocked out of Tory leadership race in shock result
What is going on in the Tory leadership contest? On Tuesday evening, it looked as though James Cleverly was on…
How bad will Hurricane Milton be?
‘Astronomical’; the ‘strongest storm in a century’; ‘nearing the mathematical limit for a storm’ – the increasingly fraught descriptions of…
The break-up of Google is long overdue
It’s innovative, it generates huge wealth, and it offers great products for completely nothing. The lobbyists for Alphabet, the parent…
Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden are on a collision course
Benjamin Netanyahu is set on a path which brooks no deviation. He wants victory against Hamas, victory against Hezbollah and,…
Bookies back Badenoch in final two crunch
The countdown for the two Tory leadership finalists is on – and in just over an hour the Conservative party…
Labour’s worrying creep back towards the EU
In Labour’s manifesto this year, Keir Starmer cannily sought to reassure any Brexiteers out there by ruling out a return to the…
Why are high-risk offenders set to be released early?
High-risk offenders could reportedly be released early from secure government-approved hostels. Shortly before before the election in July, the Ministry…
Is Labour about to go on a borrowing spree?
At Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, Rishi Sunak took a technical turn. Why is Rachel Reeves considering changing the fiscal…
Keir Starmer’s reset comes unstuck at PMQs
Keir Starmer’s reset isn’t going very well. He turned up at Prime Minister’s Questions today clearly hoping to talk about…
MI5 must stop Russia
The semi-regular speeches given by the heads of Britain’s intelligence services are always described as a ‘rare intervention’, and yesterday…
Watch: Sunak’s ‘fire and rehire’ Sue Gray jibe
It’s the first Prime Minister’s Questions since conference season and Labour’s recent woes have given the leader of the opposition…
Cleverly slams Home Secretary over Taylor Swift’s special escort
Well, well well. The Labour lot are under the spotlight once again. It transpires, after the Sun newspaper’s splash this…
The battle between Badenoch and Jenrick
It’s crunch day in the Tory leadership contest. This afternoon, Tory MPs will vote in the final knock-out round of…
Why MI5 is so worried about Russia’s GRU
Ken McCallum, head of the Security Service (MI5), has warned of the serious threat to Britain posed by the Russian…
Does Britain really want less immigration?
The economy shrinks quarter by quarter; whole streets of houses in northern towns are abandoned, schools start closing for want…
Farage predicts Tory leadership finalists
Today’s the day that the nation finds out who the final two Conservative leadership candidates will be – after a…
We have no idea how many people are living in Britain
A few years ago, a conspiracy theory was born, based on the idea that the population of Britain was far…
