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What’s up with Elon Musk?
It’s hard to keep track of Elon Musk. The X/Twitter boss has been busy taunting ‘TwoTierKeir’ Starmer over his handling…
Why a major war in the Middle East feels inevitable
Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist writing roughly 2,500 years ago, said that ‘Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to…
Tim Walz is the real-life definition of an MSNBC dad
Well, we knew it would only take so long for even a media-ensconced, Hollywood-produced, consultant stage-managed Kamala Harris to make…
How well is Starmer handling the riots?
Sir Keir Starmer is having a rather testing time as Prime Minister, to put it mildly. With violent riots breaking…
Why did rioters believe the lies?
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have set out a blunt message to rioters that they will end up in prison…
Can the grid take Ed Miliband’s net zero targets?
Ed Miliband, along with those who support his ambition to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030, has long had a…
Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread
The riots that have erupted across England in the last week have been splashed across Europe’s newspapers and broadcast on…
Are the riots about to get worse?
When will the violent disorder across England and Northern Ireland dissipate? That’s the question being asked in Westminster as ministers…
Scottish Tory leadership race: runners and riders
While contenders in the UK Tory leadership race ramp up their campaigns, north of the border the Scottish Conservative contest…
Britain’s rioters have acted like Bolsheviks
British riots are not a new phenomenon. They were regular occurrences throughout history and usually the spark that lit the…
Should we treat the rioters like football hooligans?
Images of thugs causing mayhem on Britain’s streets has brought back painful memories of the football hooligans of the 1970s and…
The trouble with Ireland’s balaclava ban
Balaclavas were once the preserve of bank robbers and members of the IRA, but this week they were worn by…
Biden declares war on… plastic
Hurricane Debby is barreling through Florida, America’s economy is crashing, US troops were injured in Iraq Monday and conflict in…
The joy of watching terrible athletes compete at the Olympics
When I was sixteen, my dad took me along to a conference he attended in Calgary just days after the…
No one wants to lead these riots
Joe/Jeff Marsh wants to make it clear that he did not, like people keep saying, start the riots in Southport.…
Watch: Ex-Met police chief blasts Starmer over riots
Finally. Someone who ran the Metropolitan Police that will actually speak to the media. Former Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson…
Does Tim Walz really moderate the Kamala Harris ticket?
Since Kamala Harris moved to the top of the Democratic ticket, it’s been assumed she would use her boss Joe…
Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz as running mate
US vice president Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota governor Tim Walz to be her running mate. Walz, a Midwestern Democrat…
Wall Street must brace itself for more shocks
The Chancellor has kicked off her investment tour under rather difficult circumstances. While Rachel Reeves spends the next three days…
Elon Musk slams Starmer over Facebook hate charge
The first person in the UK to be charged with stirring up racial hatred on Facebook during the riots is…
Don’t be fooled by Tim Walz’s blandness
OK, it’s August 6, the anniversary of the detonation of Little Boy over the city of Hiroshima in 1945. That marked…
Tory leadership hopefuls read Farage the riot act
As the country saw more violent riots last night, Tory leadership hopefuls have taken to the airwaves to condemn, er,…
Scotland’s poorest students are being failed by the SNP
Scotland’s exam results day has been something of a disaster this year. An already stressful time for anxious pupils has…
Thames Water isn’t solely to blame for the South’s dirty rivers
Few will, or should, feel sympathy for Thames Water being fined 9 per cent of its annual turnover for fouling…
Japan’s volatile stock market is causing panic
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index registered its biggest ever daily fall on Monday, plummeting by over 12 per cent and continuing…
