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Bessent, Burgum, Turner and Zeldin face confirmation hearings
Four days away from inauguration, the Senate is moving quickly with confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet. The saga…
Is removing nicotine from cigarettes bad science?
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced a bizarre proposal to cap the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. This change could…
Biden bids an ominous farewell to a falling America
President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address last night in the Oval Office. While he started with strong patriotic themes,…
How Trump shaped the Hamas-Israel ceasefire deal
After days of increasing optimism, Qatari prime minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani summoned the press last night to announce…
The Chagos Islands deal that Starmer ignored
As Mauritius and the UK scramble to finalise the terms of a treaty to hand over the Chagos Islands before Donald…
Is public sector headcount out of control?
Eyebrows were raised in the House of Lords this week as the Justice and Home Affairs Committee heard evidence that…
What does Greenland have that Trump wants?
Donald Trump’s favourite President, William McKinley, added Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the American fief at the turn of…
Why has Trump invited Zemmour – and not Le Pen – to his inauguration?
There will be two politicians from France in Washington next week to see Donald Trump sworn in as president –…
This Israel-Hamas agreement defines an ‘uneasy peace’
After 15 gruelling months of war and negotiation, a ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas has been…
Watch: Attorney General refuses to comment on Gerry Adams links
The Labour government is generating its fair share of negative headlines these days – and now the focus is on…
Keir can thank God for Kemi
Robots will never replace Sir Keir Starmer. No need. Silicon Valley is already using him as the template for an…
You should feel disappointed if you don’t get into Oxbridge
When I was at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the early 1990s, I’d often read ‘Bogsheets’ in the loos by the…
Ireland’s President has gone completely rogue
As Ireland’s octogenarian President, Michael D Higgins, enters the last few months of his final term in office, a man who was always outspoken in…
Starmer saved his favourite attack until the end at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch continued with her theme of ‘why can you trust anything the Prime Minister says’ at Prime Minister’s Questions…
President Yoon’s arrest brings more turmoil to South Korea
This year has commenced in an historic fashion for South Korea – albeit for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today,…
New York Times: Dry January is racist
For a moment, it almost seemed like there was an outbreak of sense at the New York Times, with a column…
Scottish Labour face an uphill battle, poll suggests
All is not well in the Labour party. While Sir Keir Starmer’s government fends off questions about the state of…
The triumph and tragedy of Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday…
The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton
It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made…
Why did Keir Starmer handle the Tulip Siddiq furore so badly?
When the anti-corruption minister is accused of corruption by a foreign government and has no prospect of being able to…
Tories overtake Labour despite Badenoch’s ratings falling fast
Uh oh. Labour’s first six months in government haven’t gone quite as swimmingly as Sir Keir Starmer might have hoped…
How to stop Gerry Adams’s taxpayer-funded pay day
The government’s fealty to human rights law is not in doubt. Still, one might have hoped that the human rights lawyers…
It would be a huge mistake for Labour to dam the beavers
The Guardian is reporting that No. 10 is set to delay plans to release beavers into the wild, potentially because it is…
The day I was heckled for speaking about the rape gangs
It’s odd being lionised for something you did so long ago you’d almost forgotten you were there. But this is…
The arrest of South Korea’s president won’t end this saga
South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been arrested after police officers scaled fences and cut through barbed wire to detain…
