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Badenoch’s ‘Kemistry’ delusion is gifting Burnham a glittering opportunity

Badenoch’s ‘Kemistry’ delusion is gifting Burnham a glittering opportunity

This may be more suited to a confessional than a newspaper column but I have a fascination with Kemi Badenoch that is becoming faintly absurd. As...

06.10.2026 20

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Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe should keep Britain's name out of his mouth

Call me old-fashioned but few things strike me as more compelling evidence of a genuine love for a country than, well, living in it. Euromillions...

23.09.2026 30

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Shameless Trump obsessives pose a grave threat to our country – and this proves it

The list of things Nigel Farage will do for money is long, unedifying and, in the week that we learned of £72m being donated to his party by a couple...

16.09.2026 30

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It's time to reclaim patriotism from criminals, cretins and clowns

You’ve almost certainly seen the filmed footage of a woman being viciously attacked by a mob of violent hooligans at Nigel Farage’s party...

08.09.2026 30

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Farage wants to be Britain’s Trump. Now the money around him looks familiar

Of course Nigel Farage and his chums are benefitting financially from a “gold-plated” pension scheme of a type that they intend to prevent other...

26.08.2026 30

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Badenoch thinks she's Boudicca meets Thatcher. How I wish that were true

Everybody knows that there is a lot of pressure on Andy Burnham, whose honeymoon period as Prime Minister must surely be at least approaching the...

18.08.2026 40

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Racists think they can do what they like in Britain. We can prove them wrong

In what circumstances might you expect a violent mob to congregate outside your home, hurling bricks at your windows and attacking police officers...

12.08.2026 30

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Farage is sounding more desperate than ever - these figures explain why

Andrea Rizzi, a journalist with Spain’s El Pais newspaper, put it best. The global right wing, he wrote as footage of thousands of migrants arriving...

05.08.2026 40

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Flag-hanging bozos will hate this, but genuine patriots like me at last feel hope

Michael Frayn wrote it, John Cleese delivered it and I currently find myself thinking of it every time Andy Burnham opens his mouth. “It’s not the...

28.07.2026 40

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Farage is totally inauthentic. Burnham really can beat him

My A-Level politics teacher told a story about Harold Wilson that I so wanted to be accurate, I haven’t dared check its provenance until just now....

21.07.2026 50

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Farage, our Temu Trump, has lost control of his own script

If you’re wondering why Nigel Farage is currently looking so vulnerable, while his hero Donald Trump remains largely untouched by much bigger...

14.07.2026 40

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Farage has lived a life of political slime – he is slithering off the hook again

If there was a World Cup for whining, Nigel Farage would have already won it for England. The self-pity and bogus victimhood oozed from his every pore...

07.07.2026 50

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Farage and Trump have a vicious trick to deceive voters – and it’s working

When I started presenting radio phone-in shows, almost 25 years ago now, one subject provoked an almost uniquely unanimous response on the...

30.06.2026 40

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Starmer’s obsession with integrity accidentally turned him into an epic hypocrite

What’s the opposite of Teflon? It might sound like the first line of a joke but, for those of us who hoped that the last general election would...

24.06.2026 40

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