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Ben Kentish

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Property rich but cash poor? You are still wealthy and should be taxed

Property rich but cash poor? You are still wealthy and should be taxed
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Don't let them fool you, the impartiality police don't care about the BBC

Don't let them fool you, the impartiality police don't care about the BBC
11.11.2025 9

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Starmer has made the UK irrelevant in the Middle East

13.10.2025 3

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Michelle Mone is the poster girl for Covid exploitation - finally, it's payback time

01.10.2025 3

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The real reason Jeremy Corbyn will fail isn’t his politics – it’s his personality

02.09.2025 9

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The confected outrage over Angela Rayner's new property is nothing but snobbery

25.08.2025 7

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Only Keir Starmer could make the Lionesses' victory boring

28.07.2025 3

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Keir Starmer has learnt nothing from the benefits row

06.07.2025 4

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Britain can be transformed on the cheap - but Starmer isn't brave enough

10.06.2025 6

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Brits avoid the jobs migrants are doing - and I have the proof

13.05.2025 4

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Arron Banks proves it - Reform is still a circus

28.04.2025 4

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We were warned about a catastrophe for private schools – so what actually happened?

14.04.2025 9

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The Tories can't afford to pick landlords over renters anymore

01.04.2025 3

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It increasingly looks like there's a new 'nasty party' in Downing Street

17.03.2025 4

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Lindsay Hoyle and the reason MPs should travel first class

05.03.2025 4

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Ignore the snooty condescension, Angela Rayner is Labour's best minister

11.02.2025 5

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Rachel Reeves needs to cut pensions, not benefits

28.01.2025 8

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Reeves may soon be forced into Osborne-style austerity

14.01.2025 10

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We have lost trust in Britain's justice system

09.01.2025 10

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The royals owe the public transparency – right now

If you ever worry that you might be a bad judge of character, fear not – it could be worse. You could, after all, be Prince Andrew. For while you...

16.12.2024 10

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No one is laughing at Nigel Farage now

We like to think we are different, us Brits. The idea of British exceptionalism is deeply embedded in our national psyche. We convince ourselves...

10.12.2024 6

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Wes Streeting's biggest mistake so far

Britain is sick – that much is obvious. We have become a nation of unwell people. The statistics make for harrowing reading. One in five...

05.12.2024 30

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Ending the housing crisis means taxing pensioners who won't downsize

Britain has a housing crisis. That much, everybody knows. We hear it time and time again: we don’t have enough homes. We must build and build and...

25.11.2024 4

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Labour's got a big problem with Wes Streeting

Next Friday’s vote on assisted dying has left many MPs facing a major dilemma. While some have long-standing and deeply held views on the issue,...

18.11.2024 10

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Labour is doing Nigel Farage's PR for him

It did not take long in the end – just 78 minutes, in fact. That was all the time that was needed for Rachel Reeves, delivering the Budget last...

05.11.2024 4

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Rachel Reeves's plan to tax the wealthy is exactly what this country needs

There was a time when you’d find out directly from the chancellor of the exchequer what would be in the Budget; now, most of it is published in the...

29.10.2024 2

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Rachel Reeves’s biggest Budget mistake

“A country with its future back” is a slogan that Keir Starmer used repeatedly during the election campaign, and one the Prime Minister has...

21.10.2024 2

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Rachel Reeves is fast running out of options

When Labour’s newly-appointed Cabinet ministers entered their respective departments on the morning of Friday 5 July, sleep-deprived but giddy...

15.10.2024 5

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The ludicrous Tory leadership race has left Kemi Badenoch wanting

When a small number of Conservative backbenchers gathered in a stuffy House of Commons committee room in mid-July, the meeting received little...

07.10.2024 3

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The worst is still to come for the Tory party

As any Hollywood aficionado could tell you, the idea of parallel universes has long been a favourite of novelists and scriptwriters. You know the...

02.10.2024 1

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Labour's Angela Rayner problem

Labour’s first party conference in government in 15 years was supposed to be a triumphant afterparty – a barnstorming celebration of July’s...

23.09.2024 3

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Labour has squandered so much goodwill over winter fuel payments

Keir Starmer and his team knew that their first few months in Government would be difficult. They had inherited an anaemic economy, failing public...

02.09.2024 2

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The country voted for change - now Tory MPs and members need to do the same

You might well have thought that the Conservatives’ worst ever election result would prompt a period of deep reflection, soul-searching and...

13.08.2024 2

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