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Labour’s economic doom and gloom doesn’t match reality
Inflation was 2.2 per cent in the 12 months to August, unchanged from the month before, today’s update from the…
The Hezbollah pager bomb plot has Israel’s fingerprints all over it
At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: the Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an…
Why should we listen to John Major?
Sir John Major has been sounding off. Again. The former Tory prime minister criticised his party’s Rwanda asylum plan as…
What was Labour’s role in stopping Scottish independence?
Scottish independence became such a difficult issue for Labour that it is easy to forget the party was once the…
Stop calling us ‘junior’, demand doctors
Junior doctors made headlines this week after begrudgingly accepted the government’s pay deal. Two thirds of British Medical Association (BMA)…
Prince Andrew will struggle to recover from A Very Royal Scandal
Sensational dramas about the Duke of York are rather like London buses: you wait five years for one, and then…
Softballs for Kamala at the National Association of Black Journalists
Vice President Kamala Harris met with the National Association of Black Journalists for an interview this afternoon. Instead of going…
Why the Palm Beach assassination attempt is unlikely to affect the 2024 race
Again? That was the immediate reaction I had when the Associated Press bulletin popped up on my phone as I…
Now we know how Keir Starmer will fall
After coasting his way to No. 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership has got off to a pretty cursed start. Some…
Oasis should run a mile from this Irish rebel band
Liam Gallagher, it is fair to say, is not renowned for thoughtfulness or tact, particularly on the platform formerly known…
David Lammy: Climate change a more ‘fundamental’ threat than terrorism
Back to the Foreign Secretary, who seems unable to keep himself out of the headlines these days. It transpires that…
Two takeaways from Ed Davey’s conference speech
Sir Ed Davey has just finished his conference speech in Brighton. No party is likely to hold a more upbeat…
The junior doctors’ pay deal won’t stop them striking
After 22 months of on-and-off strikes, junior doctors have voted to accept the government’s offer of a 22.3 per cent…
Starmer’s Frockgate saga rumbles on
Back to Westminster, where the Prime Minister is facing some rather uncomfortable questions about freebies received from top Labour donor…
The problem with Labour’s green energy plan
Ed Miliband told the EnergyUK conference this morning that he wants to take on the ‘blockers, delayers and obstructionists’ who…
It’s a pity Thierry Breton didn’t resign sooner
The spectacular resignation of Thierry Breton from the European Commission suggests that the president of the European Commission Ursula von…
Donald Trump could have the last laugh on crypto
A day after nearly being shot again, the 78-year-old Donald Trump is once more being mocked for sounding like a…
Labour can’t afford to ignore the war in Sudan
‘The UK-UAE relationship is central to driving economic growth – it’s our largest trading partner in the region.’ So tweeted…
The Huw Edwards scandal shows that the BBC never learns
Albert Einstein wasn’t thinking about the BBC when he defined insanity as ‘doing the same thing over and over again…
Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer treated me like a ‘non-person’
All is not well in the Labour party. Diane Abbott has launched an attack on the Prime Minister over his…
Coconut placards and the truth about free speech in Britain
When you describe what happened, you realise how ridiculous it was. A woman was dragged to court for holding up…
The trouble with the Champions League
The revamped Champions League kicks off this week with all the gushing hyperbole we have come to expect from this…
When will EU flag wavers get the message?
Arguing about the last night of the Proms is as much of an annual tradition as the music itself. Usually…
Martin Hewitt is the right pick for ‘border tsar’
The ‘border tsar’ isn’t the official title for Martin Hewitt. The former police chief has been appointed to the new…
Starmer faces backlash over Meloni meeting
There’s trouble in Sir Keir’s Labour paradise, it seems, after the Prime Minister jetted off to Italy for a migration-focused…
