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With interest rates crashing, Boris is in luck – he can borrow his way out of any Brexit crisis

10 August 2019 4:30 pm

Is Boris Johnson the luckiest prime minister ever? This week, the Government can borrow money for ten years at 0.48…

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Joe Biden’s Grandpa Smurf routine won’t beat Trump

10 August 2019 2:23 am

Joe Biden possesses the elixir of ordinariness, despite the appearance of having picked his hair and teeth out of a…

Is Britain really heading for a Brexit recession?

9 August 2019 10:15 pm

The sense of excitement among some Remainers is almost palpable. Finally – after three years of waiting – a quarter…

Rosanna Arquette and the problem with white privilege

9 August 2019 9:22 pm

American actress Rosanna Arquette has declared her undying shame to the world on social media. It had nothing to do…

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Biden’s ‘white supremacist’ answer shows why he’s leading

9 August 2019 8:38 am

‘Why are you so hooked on that?’ Joe Biden asked a reporter in Iowa Thursday. She’d asked him to label…

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Donald Trump isn’t to blame for this spate of mass shootings

8 August 2019 2:36 pm

The flagship news and current affairs program of the BBC wasn’t in any doubt about who to blame for America’s…

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Trump heals the nation…by attacking Beto for his ‘phony name’

8 August 2019 7:23 am

The Democratic party, mired in infighting only a week ago, has reunited over racial division. New Jersey senator Cory Booker…

Could Boris Johnson have to resign if he loses a confidence vote?

7 August 2019 10:10 pm

The argument about whether Boris Johnson would have to resign if he lost a confidence vote is continuing to rage…

It would be foolish to take Boris’s Brexit promises at face value

7 August 2019 9:26 pm

As the by-election result came through from Wales last week, one Tory Leaver tweeted this: “Brecon and Radnor is a timely…

Will John McDonnell lock Tories up if Labour wins the next election?

7 August 2019 7:31 pm

Smiley, fluent and softly spoken, John McDonnell sometimes comes across as a bit cuddly. Yesterday Labour’s shadow chancellor was interviewed…

Why a no-deal Brexit is now overwhelmingly likely

7 August 2019 7:27 am

I am regularly asked whether MPs can block a no-deal Brexit, whether they will block a no-deal Brexit and whether…

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Rise of the comrade babies

7 August 2019 2:15 am

If you elected to build a library dedicated to the subject of Human Folly, the place would end up as…

Donald Trump is the best prime minister Britain never had

6 August 2019 10:07 pm

Britain has never had a better friend in the White House than Donald Trump. FDR may have bailed out Britain…

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Liberalism cannot stop the shootings

6 August 2019 9:10 pm

What makes a young man pick up a gun, head to a crowded place, and shoot as many people as…

McDonald’s straws and the policies of moral panic

6 August 2019 3:45 am

McDonald’s has bowed to public pressure and replaced plastic straws that you can recycle, with paper straws that you can’t…

Could Boris Johnson be the last Prime Minister of the UK?

6 August 2019 12:09 am

Now it gets messy. Lord Ashcroft’s poll putting support for Scottish independence at 52-48 (the cursed percentages) is the first…

James Cleverly – We are not ‘going to initiate’ a general election

4 August 2019 11:54 pm

Niall Paterson stood in for Sophy Ridge this morning, interviewing the Conservative party chairman James Cleverly. Paterson asked Cleverly whether…

The ambiguity of the woke businessman

4 August 2019 4:26 pm

The woke businessman, like the woke prince and princess, is an ambiguous figure. Being woke, after all, involves a contempt…

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Presidency Inc.

4 August 2019 6:06 am

Eric Swalwell, we hardly knew ye. And we might add that what we did know did not leave us pining…

What’s changed with Boris Johnson in Downing Street

3 August 2019 7:34 pm

10 days in to Boris Johnson’s premiership and the big change is, as I say in The Sun this morning,…

Corbynistas in a spin over Lib Dem by-election win

3 August 2019 6:30 pm

As the Liberal Democrats celebrate their win in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, other parties are licking their wounds. The…

A life apart: an interview with Frank Field

2 August 2019 9:33 pm

Frank Field has announced today that he is forming the ‘Birkenhead Social Justice Party’ to stand at the next election.…

The Brecon by-election result raises difficult questions for the Tories

2 August 2019 5:31 pm

As expected, the Liberal Democrats have won the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election – thereby reducing Boris Johnson’s majority to one. The…

European Research Group divisions over Boris Johnson’s Brexit tactics

2 August 2019 4:28 am

With Boris Johnson currently refusing to meet with any EU leaders for Brexit talks unless they agree to abolish the…

Google’s eco-warriors forget to check their privilege

1 August 2019 6:37 pm

It’s well known that all good Silicon Valley billionaires these days have one issue that is firmly at the top…