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How Wagner mercenaries abused HSBC and JP Morgan
Whatever happened to the Wagner Group, Evgeny Prigozhin’s shadowy army of prisoners and mercenaries? In the wake of Wagner’s abortive…
Wes Streeting is convincing, but where’s his plan?
This Labour conference has largely been about Keir Starmer and his ministers making the argument for what they are doing,…
Is this the end for Hezbollah?
The recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that’s not yet officially a war, initiated by a political…
Evacuating Lebanon would test Starmer’s mettle
As the security situation in Lebanon deteriorates, the British government is accelerating plans to evacuate its civilians. The Foreign, Commonwealth…
While Xi reigns, China’s economy is unreformable
It was presented as a bold stimulus to boost China’s ailing economy – but while it excited stock markets in…
Would scrapping the monarchy really save us money?
Britain’s republicans won’t give up. In spite of trying to use the coronation of Charles III as an opportunity to…
Reform exodus continues in professionalisation drive
The ravens really are leaving the tower. In recent months, Reform has been turbo-charging its professionalisation drive, working to set…
Joe Biden’s dishonest farewell tour
‘Some things are more important than staying in power,’ Joe Biden just told the United Nations, and the General Assembly…
Trump could teach Starmer a thing or two about speeches
The standout line from Sir Keir Starmer’s first speech to conference as prime minister – the one that will be…
Keir Starmer has shown why the Tories will struggle against him
Keir Starmer gave a formidable speech to the Labour conference today. It was easily good enough to inspire the party’s…
Keir Starmer is in the mood to fight
Keir Starmer’s first conference speech as Prime Minister neatly embodied the past three days in Liverpool: patchy, uninspiring, with a…
Watch: Starmer heckled by pro-Gaza protestor
It’s day three of Labour conference, and Sir Keir’s has just delivered his much anticipated keynote speech. The Prime Minister…
Gretchen Whitmer’s struggle shows Democrats’ Israel problem isn’t going away
Democrats have an Israel problem that isn’t going away any time soon. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer illustrated why this weekend…
Full text: Keir Starmer’s Labour conference speech
Thank you, Conference. And I do mean that from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, Conference for everything you…
Why is Labour so puritanical?
Can you be a progressive without being po-faced? I wonder sometimes, especially when I read that public health minister Andrew…
Watch: Starmer calls for the return of ‘the sausages’ from Gaza
Oops. After his first Labour conference as Prime Minister was overshadowed by power struggles in No. 10 and the growing…
Surprise, surprise, Dale Vince wants vegan schools
Socialism, wrote George Orwell, has often had a habit of attracting posh cranks. He witheringly described the ‘sandal-wearers and bearded…
Pat McFadden’s bizarre Reform rant
Ahead of the Prime Minister’s address a number of Cabinet ministers are savouring the last full day of their party…
Is Labour sidelining Keir Starmer’s oracy drive?
Back in September last year, Labour leader Keir Starmer unveiled his party’s flagship education policy: a drive for oracy, or…
British policing needs a total rethink
If you started again with a clean slate, a blank sheet of paper, you would never design a system of policing like…
Donald Trump is still the funniest politician of our age
Donald Trump is arguably the most unsuitable candidate of any major western political party in living memory, let alone leader…
What is Chris Whitty up to?
There was a period during the pandemic in 2020 when the pubs were open but you could only go to…
Yvette Cooper slams Reform as ‘right-wing wreckers’
To the Labour party conference, where Starmer’s army is celebrating its first meet as a part of government in over…
Can Israel avoid provoking all-out war with Hezbollah?
Israel has carried out its largest-scale operation against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the summer war of 2006. Wave after…
Gary Neville’s tin-eared defence of Keir Starmer
Gary Neville, the Sky Sports pundit and former Manchester United footballer, can’t help himself when it comes to tedious political rants.…
