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Starmer sends Glittergate warning
To Liverpool, where Sir Keir Starmer is enjoying his first Labour conference in government, against the backdrop of rather stormy…
Why has Rachel Reeves suddenly become cheery?
Can Rachel Reeves inject some optimism into the debate around Britain’s economy? That seems to be her ambition today, as…
Will AfD voters ever return to the mainstream?
For the second time in three weeks, the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) has received a significant percentage of the…
Olaf Scholz has won a hollow victory in Brandenburg’s state elections
In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this…
Why are you proud to be British?
Introducing a tub-thumping op-ed in the Mail yesterday, Robert Jenrick quoted Orwell: ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose…
Naivety won’t solve Britain’s migrant crisis
Events of the last week have demonstrated the fierce determination of some migrants to reach their European destination of choice. Last Sunday, hundreds…
Were the wild Sixties really wild?
I grew up in the America of the 1960s, an era renowned for its kaftan-wearing hippies, its ethos of free…
Labour minister: we could be in power for 25 years
Party conferences are never short of hyperbole. Whether it’s on the conference floor or the late night bar, impromptu speeches…
Sue Gray’s Labour conference no-show
As well as being paid more than the Prime Minister, it seems Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is getting…
Why JD Vance ‘created’ the pet-eating immigrants
Last week, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance appeared on CNN’s State of the Union where he was interviewed by Dana Bash. During…
Mick Lynch mocks Labour’s outfit freebies
Poor Keir Starmer. One of the first things he did after becoming prime minister was to stuff the unions’ mouths…
Angela Rayner: ‘I don’t believe I broke any rules… in fact I think I was overly transparent’
Angela Rayner: ‘I don’t believe I broke any rules… in fact I think I was overly transparent’ The Labour conference…
Richard Burgon fails to draw a crowd at Labour conference
Oh for the days of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’. It only seems like yesterday that the likes of John McDonnell and…
Starmer approval rating hits record low
Sir Keir Starmer is having a tough time of it, what with his ongoing freebie fiasco, the cronyism row and…
Keir Starmer’s problems are of his own making
That nobody in Keir Starmer’s inner circle worked out that trashing his personal reputation for a hundred grand’s worth of…
The truth about Led By Donkeys
Love them or loathe them, it’s hard not to have noticed Led By Donkeys. The protest group – made up,…
The Myanmar junta’s desperate campaign of terror
It was about 9:15pm on 5 September when the roaring sound of a warplane began to hum across the hills.…
Calm down, most cows aren’t ‘killers’
There must be carnage in the countryside. That’s the only explanation for a stampede of anxious headlines about the danger…
Now Rayner’s register of interests is under scrutiny
This weekend Labour hosts its party conference in power for the first time in 15 years. The great and the…
Can Keir Starmer reverse his fortunes at Labour conference?
What is Keir Starmer wearing, how much is it worth and who paid for it? That’s normally a question only…
Best events at Labour conference 2024
This weekend Labour ministers, MPs and delegates will arrive in Liverpool for their first conference in office since 2009. Following…
How much trouble is Keir Starmer in?
To Liverpool for Labour’s first party conference since Keir Starmer triumphed in the general election. On paper, this ought to…
Starmer’s freebies and the truth about Labour’s double-standards
The Labour government’s u-turn on freebies, its disclosure last night that it will no longer accept donations for clothes, is…
Abbott: Starmer is in the ‘pocket of millionaires’
As if Sir Keir Starmer didn’t have enough on his plate what with his freebie scandal, Sue Gray inquiry and…
No, Rich Lowry didn’t say the N-word
Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of National Review, is being cancelled for calling Haitian immigrants the N-word. One problem: he didn’t. Lowry…
