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Will Angela Rayner really water down the right-to-buy scheme?
Housing Secretary Angela Rayner is said to be planning on watering down the right-to-buy scheme which enables council tenants to…
Kamala Harris and the audacity of desperation
Barack Obama wrote The Audacity of Hope. The Kamala Harris story of 2024 could be called The Audacity of Desperation. Her brief…
The real reason Keir Starmer keeps forgetting he’s prime minister
When Sir Keir Starmer faced off against Rishi Sunak at the despatch box today, in the first Prime Minister’s Questions…
Nothing gives Keir Starmer joy like banning things
Power hasn’t altered Sir Keir Starmer. His frosty and unamused demeanour remains. No hint of warmth or joy has penetrated…
The two winners from the first Tory leadership round
Priti Patel is out of the race to be the next Tory leader. In the first knockout round of the…
The vital lesson that must be learnt from the Grenfell inquiry
Today’s long-awaited publication of the final report of the Grenfell Tower inquiry provides a forensic account of the ‘root causes’…
SNP health secretary slammed over Oasis ticket fiasco
To Scotland, where the SNP’s newest health secretary has found himself in a rather large, Oasis-sized mess. At the weekend,…
Keir Starmer is acting like he’s still in opposition
Keir Starmer made a couple of verbal slips at Prime Minister’s Questions. Both were quite telling. The first was that…
Why is Javier Milei spending more on Argentina’s army?
Bitter austerity is biting in Argentina as the new president enacts the brutal cuts he promised in a bid to…
Why London must get back to work
The commute is often unreliable, expensive and crowded. It is easy enough to understand why so many of London’s 5…
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions
Tucker Carlson is just asking questions. Questions like: what if Andrew Tate’s camgirl harem is actually the height of masculinity?…
The ‘path to disaster’ that led to Grenfell
There are very few people who emerge from the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report with much credit today. Certainly very few…
Macron’s search for a prime minster is a complete farce
Who will be the next prime minister of France? Almost two months after the centre lost its majority in the National…
Watch: Starmer defers to ‘prime minister’ Sunak at PMQs
They say old habits die hard, and Sir Keir Starmer is finding that out for himself today. It’s the first…
The US is turning the screws on Nicolas Maduro
Actions often speak louder than words. In the case of the United States seizing Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s multi-million dollar…
Why did the Grenfell Inquiry take so long to tell us what we know already?
Predictably enough, and not unreasonably, the 1700-page final report into the Grenfell disaster apportions the bulk of the blame with…
There’s no shame in being ‘weird’
Are Conservative politicians ‘weird’? A series of focus groups carried out by More in Common suggests that voters – particularly…
SNP government finally accepts Cass review findings
Well, well, well. After all of the SNP’s sniping at Dr Hilary Cass’s review into UK gender clinics, it transpires…
Netanyahu faces an unenviable dilemma on Gaza
The murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in Gaza earlier this week led to an outpouring of grief and…
Keir Starmer’s honeymoon is unquestionably over
Keir Starmer is back at the despatch box for Prime Minister’s Questions today and his honeymoon period is unquestionably over.…
Stop trying to make ‘weird’ happen
Where American left-liberal rhetoric leads, British left-liberal rhetoric invariably follows. Hate speech, reparations, decolonisation, white fragility; there is no intellectual…
How long can Macron ignore French voters?
It was way back in the first week of July that the French went to the polls to elect a…
When will the Channel migrant horror end?
Twelve migrants, including six children and a pregnant woman, have died after their overcrowded dinghy capsized while they were trying…
Want to see RNC chair Lara Trump’s new music video?
The video begins with sirens, a firetruck and vivid kinetic typography spelling the words “hero.” Then, soulful piano music. Sigh.…
On the ground at Flagstock, the rager for the UNC frat bros who defended the American flag from protesters
Chapel Hill, North Carolina What kind of party can you throw with more than $500,000? For months, the organizers of…
