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Trump should buy Hooters
In the wake of the US government taking on a 10 percent equity stake in Intel, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick…
Rayner in storm over council tax
Power, said Henry Kissinger, is the ultimate aphrodisiac – but it also seems to improve your property chances too. Angela…
Corbyn’s party seeks a new name
The magic grandpa is back in town! Jeremy Corbyn’s new leftwing outfit – ‘Your Party’ – is seeking a rebrand,…
Queers for Palestine burst Pride
The annual Ottawa Pride rally was cancelled on Sunday after the group, Queers for Palestine, blocked the parade, owing to…
The real significance of Farage’s deportation plan
If Nigel Farage wanted headline treatment for his immigration speech at Oxford Airport this morning, he certainly got it. So…
In defence of Notting Hill Carnival
Every August Bank Holiday my neighbours in Notting Hill Gate pull down the shutters and disappear. Cornwall, Tuscany, anywhere but…
Trump’s military purge is a disaster waiting to happen
The Duke of Wellington, assessing newly arrived British soldiers during the Peninsular War, is supposed to have said, ‘I don’t…
Australia has finally woken up to the Iranian threat
Geographically, eastern Australia is about as far from Israel and Gaza as anyone can get. But given the Australian government’s…
Farage sets out his mass deportation plan
In an Oxfordshire aircraft hanger this morning, Nigel Farage finally unveiled his party’s long-awaited deportations strategy. For six weeks, asylum…
Alexander Isak and the stunning hypocrisy of Liverpool fans
Anyone who has looked at modern football and muttered ‘the game’s gone’ has a point. Nothing confirms this belief more…
Is France about to trigger the next financial crash?
Its debts are out of control. There is very little space left to raise taxes any further. And the political…
Record jobless benefits are a national scandal
Quietly, without even a press release let alone a fanfare, Britain over the past 12 months has just passed a…
Does Virginia Giuffre have the power to finish off Prince Andrew?
There’s an old saying that revenge tastes best when served cold. The late Virginia Giuffre has gone a step further…
Is this the end for Emmanuel Macron?
Prime Minister François Bayrou has recalled parliament for a confidence vote on 8 September, betting he can outmanoeuvre a surging…
Will Donald Trump meet Lucy Connolly?
‘Mass deportation now, set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re…
Where did it all go so wrong for Britain?
If I had to summarise, in a word, the mood of the nation in 2025, I’d probably plump for fraught.…
Macron is blind to the decivilisation of France
For the second time in a week, Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for allowing antisemitism to run riot in France.…
The devastating cost of cashless bail
The President taking such decisive action to save lives this past week is bittersweet beyond words. For years, we begged…
Trump’s Squid Games with South Korean President
“WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA?” President Trump posted over breakfast. “Seems like a Purge or Revolution. We can’t…
Zohran’s embarrassing scavenger hunt
I still look back fondly on my 10th birthday party – a cute little scavenger hunt through the landmarks of…
Farage, flags and the forgotten English
The flag-raisings in towns and cities across the country are an inevitable consequence of elites’ seeming preference for every flag…
Leave bad manners to the public, not the police
Most people deplore bad behaviour in public and gratuitous breaches of etiquette and manners on trains and buses. Few would…
J.D. Vance: proconsul to Britain?
Vice President J.D. Vance’s family vacation in Britain was disrupted by protesters who insisted that he was not welcome in the country. In the Cotswolds, an area northwest…
Starmer is dodging the real asylum battle
The government is badly rattled on immigration. It knows that its perceived inability either to curb rampant asylum abuses or…
Angela Rayner’s not-so-scandalous ‘third home’
Angela Rayner, it’s reported, has bought a ‘third home’. The three-bedroom seaside flat on the south coast that she has…
