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GCSE grade inflation is finally over
Today’s GSCE results show essentially unchanged performance compared with last year, with 21.7 per cent of pupils achieving grade 7…
If Ford can’t crack electric cars, no one can
It had the history, the manufacturing muscle, the capital, and the brand to make it work. When Ford announced plans…
Yvette Cooper has her work cut out on illegal migration
Happy immigration stats day, one and all. The Home Office has this morning released a raft of data on visa…
Now more Scottish Tory leadership candidates drop out
Back to Scotland, where the ongoing leadership contest for the next leader is heating up. Nominations for candidates close today,…
Does the UK really need an immigration deal with the EU?
There is talk, yet again, of the UK and EU agreeing some kind of youth mobility scheme, increasing the opportunities…
SNP membership numbers plummet further
Oh dear. It’s not a good time to be an SNP politician, what with the recent electoral wipeout, the party’s…
DNC attempts to sanitize Walz’s false statements
Chicago You get freedom, you get freedom, we all get freedom! At least that was the pitch from Oprah Winfrey…
The problem with compulsory GCSE resits
This morning, students up and down across the country will anxiously open up their GCSE results, with local papers publishing…
French politics has become an absurdist farce
It’s the rentrée politique this week in France, the start of the political year, a bit earlier than normal. It promises to be…
Moscow is blaming Britain for the Kursk attack
Is the sinking of the super-yacht Bayesian and likely death of Mike Lynch a bigger story than Ukraine’s Kursk incursion? The Russian…
Does it matter who wins the Scottish Tory leadership race?
Nominations for candidates wanting to stand in the Scottish Tory leadership contest close today. One candidate has already voluntarily dropped…
Why the kids are manifesting a Kamala presidency
Chicago “Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn’t it?” Michelle Obama told the DNC Tuesday night. “America, hope is…
How RFK Jr.’s looming exit could rain on Kamala’s parade
There are multiple reports, still unconfirmed at the moment but from reliable sources, that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will end his independent…
Putin is biding his time to seek revenge for Kursk
Vladimir Putin, it seems, is procrastinating. Just when the war in Ukraine was going his way and the Russian army…
Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow piles the pressure on Putin
In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine hit Moscow with ‘one of the largest’ drone attacks against the Russian…
Labour is losing fiscal credibility
Just how much longer will the government be able to sustain its assertion that the Conservatives left behind a £22…
Tories demand Treasury impartiality probe
Whitehall has received a lot of attention of late, what with interesting civil service appointments prompting claims of cronyism. And now…
Has Germany run out of money to give to Ukraine?
Germany is Ukraine’s biggest military donor in Europe. On paper, it appears determined to ensure that Vladimir Putin’s act of…
Does France need a government?
France has been without an official government for seven weeks, the longest in the history of the Fifth Republic. A…
BBC blasted over Sir Brian’s ‘partisan’ badger doc
The Beeb is developing a habit of being the news rather than making it – and the upcoming release of…
Rachel Reeves has already run out of cash
It was easy to mock it as a piece of political grandstanding. On taking office, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves almost…
Keir Starmer is being humiliated by the rail unions
The foolishness of the government’s appeasement of the unions is becoming clearer by the day. The 15 per cent pay…
Kamala Harris would be bad news for Britain
With the Democratic National Convention taking place this week, it’s crucial to consider the potential consequences for Britain and global…
Labour cronyism claims continue
Another day, another drama. The spotlight is back on Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot as accusations of cronyism continue to…
Yvette Cooper’s chilling crackdown on ‘harmful’ beliefs
Why is there not more disquiet over Yvette Cooper’s promise to crack down on ‘harmful’ beliefs? To my mind it…
