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Watch: Ex-Blair aide takes a pop at Britain’s farmers
Farmers across the country have been in uproar since Rachel Reeves’s Budget. Just weeks ago the Chancellor announced that agricultural…
Keir Starmer isn’t being honest about his COP carbon pledge
‘It’s not about telling people how to live their lives. I’m not interested in that’ said Keir Starmer of his…
Tories overtake Labour in first poll since Badenoch victory
When it rains, it pours for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot. The polls have gone downhill since Starmer’s army got…
The great flaw in Labour’s assisted dying bill
Believe it or not, the most compelling argument against assisted dying today came from Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem…
Can Justin Welby cling on?
MPs are getting involved in the row over Justin Welby’s position as Archbishop of Canterbury, with Conservative MP Nick Timothy…
Coutinho blasts Miliband’s energy claims as ‘total nonsense’
While Sir Keir Starmer faces the world’s media today at Cop29 in Baku, his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is on…
Germany has a bleak future thanks to Olaf Scholz
The demise of chancellor Olaf Scholz’s lacklustre coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and the liberal Free Democrats is unsurprising. The…
Has Trump already derailed Reeves’s first Budget?
When Rachel Reeves went out to sell her £40bn tax-raising budget on the airwaves, she offered a message of reassurance:…
Ursula von der Leyen is Europe’s Kamala Harris
European farmers have called for a day of protest in Brussels on Wednesday, 48 hours before the EU is expected…
There are now seven million migrant workers in the UK
For the first time ever there are seven million migrant workers in Britain’s job market. Figures released by the ONS…
How strong are the safeguards in the assisted dying bill?
After a long wait, Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying legislation – the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – was published overnight, ahead of…
Farewell Gary Lineker, you won’t be missed
Gary Lineker is to leave Match of the Day at the end of the current football season, and to exit the BBC…
RAF chief puts pressure on Starmer over Storm Shadows
I don’t know what the Ukrainian for ‘Well, duh’ is, but it might well have been heard in Kyiv yesterday.…
Gary Lineker’s opinions were never welcome at the BBC
Having thought it was all over, several times, it is now – for Gary Linker as presenter of Match of the…
The Marsh family and the sad spectacle of Trump-bashing Brits
There is something slightly uncanny about the musical Marsh family of Faversham in Kent, who recently gathered millions of YouTube…
The irony of Starmer’s Armistice Day visit to France
Yesterday morning, the British Prime Minister travelled to Paris at the invitation of the French President to lay a wreath…
Gary Lineker to leave Match of the Day
After years of tweaking the tail of BBC bosses, it seems that Gary Lineker has finally had enough. The left-wing…
The truth about Britain’s transition to ‘clean energy’
The timing couldn’t have been worse. Under leaden November skies, came news of what many have suspected: energy rationing for…
How Trump won over Latino voters
A huge surge of support from the Latino community helped Donald Trump to victory in the US election. I could never envision myself voting for…
May backs Hague for Oxford Chancellor bid
In a year of elections, none are bigger than that for Oxford Chancellor. Just five candidates remain in the race…
Why was Europe not ready for Trump?
Donald Trump has won his third presidential election and across Europe heads are exploding. This should not be the case.…
How did pollsters get Trump’s victory so wrong?
Was Donald Trump’s win unexpected? Not if you followed the betting markets, which had Trump at a two-thirds chance of…
SNP health secretary under fire over football
What is it with separatist health secretaries claiming from the public purse for the footie? First there was the £11,000…
Keir Starmer’s pointless meeting with Emmanuel Macron
It’s extremely difficult to imagine that today’s meeting between Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron produced anything substantive beyond a photo opportunity…
Why Farage should – and shouldn’t – be UK ambassador to Trump
It is very kind of Nigel Farage to offer his services as a kind of intermediary between our government and…
