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The decline and fall of Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and a well-known figure in the Islamic world, has…
We all know the NHS is broken – but can Labour fix it?
There are few surprises in Lord Darzi’s review of the National Health Service, not least because much of it has…
Has Keir Starmer forgotten that he’s prime minister?
Shortly before noon, Sir Keir Starmer and his closest chums peeped out from behind the Speaker’s chair to see if…
Nurseries have been underfunded for too long
Over a third of UK universities are in financial trouble. That’s according to Universities UK, the group that represents many…
Ukraine should be able to fight Russia as it wants to
President Joe Biden has hinted that the United States may shortly lift the restrictions it has placed on Ukraine’s use…
Keir Starmer needs to answer the question
Neither Keir Starmer nor Rishi Sunak were very good at Prime Minister’s Questions today. Though Starmer didn’t get his own…
Watch: Farage attacks ‘two tier’ Keir at PMQs
With two months to go until his successor takes over, Rishi Sunak only has a handful of PMQs sessions left.…
Is this the worst tribute so far to Queen Elizabeth II?
An official tribute to the late, much-missed Queen Elizabeth II will, in years to come, be unveiled in London’s St…
Watch: Scholz loses his temper as Germany’s migration debate rages
Ding ding! It’s not just in Westminster that the debate over illegal migration has got politicians tearing chunks out of…
Australia’s social media ban for children won’t work
I was born in the final years of the baby boom. To my generation of children, a social network was…
ABC News is the big loser of the Trump-Harris debate
The main takeaway from the ABC News ambus— er, presidential debate last night? That someone should sue the network for…
Labour MP: Afros should be a ‘protected characteristic’
Prisoners are out, the unions are striking and pensioners are having their winter fuel payments pulled. With Starmer’s Britain now…
Britain’s GDP has stagnated – again
There was no economic growth in July, according to the Office for National Statistics. The latest GDP figures show that…
Hamas has been defeated – but the fight goes on
Has Hamas finally been defeated in Gaza, nearly a year after it launched the most deadly attack in Israel’s history?…
The EU is disintegrating before our eyes
Germany’s decision to reintroduce border controls in an attempt to halt mass immigration is awkward for Keir Starmer. A fortnight…
Donald Trump’s Taylor Swift nightmare
Look What You Made Me Do. It seems that last night’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris convinced one…
Watch: the key moments in the Trump-Harris debate
On Tuesday night the former President Donald Trump and the current Vice President Kamala Harris faced off in Philadelphia for…
Donald Trump was his own worst enemy in this debate
‘So I think you’ve heard tonight two very different visions for our country,’ Vice President Kamala Harris insisted in her…
Americans were failed by the Trump-Harris debate
The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump was a missed opportunity for both…
Germany’s immigration crackdown will heap pressure on Brussels
In a drastic move to curb illegal immigration, the German government has announced that it will tighten controls on its…
How Donald Trump lost the debate
If Kamala Harris is elected president – and that’s a big ‘if’ since the race is still tight – she won it…
When will the families of Lucy Letby’s victims be allowed to move on?
When Lucy Letby was convicted last year of murdering seven infants and attempting to kill seven others it seemed that…
The real significance of the winter fuel row
The question of whether to scrap winter fuel payments to all but the poorest retirees is a very British debate,…
Kamala’s brand new, same old last-minute policy platform
After weeks of studious silence, Vice President Kamala Harris has been issuing a flurry of policy proposals that she’s touting…
The winners and losers from today’s Tory leadership vote
The names of the final four candidates left in the Tory leadership contest are in. Mel Stride has been eliminated…
