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Is Israel preparing to strike Iran?
While much of the Western debate remains trapped in tired slogans and false moral narratives, events on the ground in…
Britain’s GDP decline is bad news for Rachel Reeves’ spending plans
Rachel Reeves delivered her spending plans for the next three years less than 24 hours ago, but already the credibility…
Why isn’t the BBC telling us what caused the Ballymena riots?
Does anyone know what’s actually happening in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland? If you’ve just been following the news on the…
Could Donald Trump scrap Aukus?
America’s policy undersecretary of defence, Elbridge Colby, is one of the brightest brains in Donald Trump’s administration. Having served in…
Nigel Farage was the spending review’s real winner
When chancellors approach a major moment like a Spending Review, they tend to have a figure in their mind’s eye…
Randi Weingarten’s anti-Trump national uprising sounds ‘mostly peaceful’
“Authoritarianism can be stopped,” Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, was saying, even though Weingarten was a…
Elon Musk kisses the ring
“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far,” Elon Musk wrote on X…
What caused the Ballymena riots?
The County Antrim town of Ballymena endured a second night of rioting on Tuesday, as protestors aimed fireworks and missiles…
It’s no surprise that Prevent has gone to the dogs
Conquest’s Second Law states that the behaviour of an organisation can best be predicted by assuming it’s controlled by a…
The spending review was 45 minutes I will never get back
Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to…
Only proper welfare reform can bring true ‘national renewal’
Rachel Reeves’ Spending Review does more than set budgets. It exposes a contradiction at the heart of Labour’s approach to…
Britain doesn’t need more affordable housing
This afternoon’s spending review mostly consisted of rehashed announcements, and in fact Tory plans that had been quickly rebadged. But…
What’s the matter with Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is reeling once again from urban disturbances, as it did in 1965, 1992 and 2020. After each outbreak…
Khan takes a pop at Reeves over spending review
There were always going to be winners and losers in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending review and it appears that Sadiq…
Swinney stages reshuffle amid SNP infighting
It’s a busy day in politics and the SNP is keen not to be left out of the action. As…
Starmer returns to his favourite PMQs subject: Liz Truss
‘Mr Speaker, he loves talking about Liz Truss – why? Because he wants to hide from his economic record.’ Kemi…
SNP plotters should think twice before moving against John Swinney
For those who feel Scottish politics has become a little dull of late, fear not: a rebel faction within the…
US urges UK to U-turn on Israeli sanctions
As if the Labour government didn’t have enough on its plate with Rachel Reeves’s spending review to be announced at…
David Lammy has scored a win against pro-Gaza civil servants
Not for the first time in Whitehall, we are seeing a power struggle between elected government ministers and civil servants…
Rachel Reeves’s Spending Review is a recipe for trouble
Rachel Reeves will apparently tell us today that she has chosen stability over chaos. It is one of the Chancellor’s…
Will the L.A. immigration riots reach Europe?
The pro-immigration protests that erupted last week in Los Angeles have now spread across the United States. On Tuesday there…
Will Bangladesh’s leader mention Tulip Siddiq in his meeting with the PM?
If Keir Starmer meets Bangladesh’s interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, as planned at Downing Street this week, their agenda will likely…
Britain’s sanctioning of Israeli ministers is a grave mistake
The United Kingdom’s decision this week to impose personal sanctions on two Israeli cabinet ministers, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir…
No, Nato: Brits had not ‘better learn to speak Russian’
It seems conventional wisdom by now that the public can only be convinced by hyperbole. As Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte…
England’s defeat to Senegal might be their worst ever performance
“England, the lions of Autumn are but lambs come the Spring”. That quote is often attributed to Michel Platini, but…
