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To lay down a chancellor’s life to save your own is a grave step for any UK prime minister to take. When times are good, chancellors can be...
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is making the running in UK politics and the establishment can't stop him. To understand Musk’s impact,...
One of Labour’s intellectual lodestars George Bernard Shaw wrote that “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some...
By putting London’s lawyers, accountants and PR consultants at the service of global kleptocrats, the UK earned an unwholesome reputation as...
The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous regime” in Syria this week was celebrated with Churchillian bombast by Foreign Secretary David Lammy in...
Many Tories could not resist gloating when French Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government fell on Wednesday after a no-confidence vote...
Rachel Reeves has the rare distinction among Britain’s chancellors of bearing the description ‘professional economist’ on her CV. Mysteriously,...
Archbishops of Canterbury are more likely to be executed by the state — the fate of Thomas Cranmer and William Laud in the Reformation era — than...
In days of old, a monarch could in theory do no wrong — until the revolutionaries stormed the gates of the palace. Blame fell on ‘evil’...
The waiters serve a decent glass of champagne on the crowded decks of the Tory Titanic. No matter that the Conservatives suffered their worst...
The Conservatives are the party of “easy answers,” sneered Keir Starmer in his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool this week. He...
If everything is so good for the UK’s ruling Labour Party why does it feel so bad? Delegates gathering in Liverpool this weekend for their annual...
Franklin D. Roosevelt famously kicked off his first 100 days as US president declaring, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In the...
First, the good news for the next leader of the UK’s benighted Conservative party — the popularity of the new Labour government is tanking. After a...
“How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?” sneered defeated Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a year after Barack Obama...
As a cub reporter, I once asked Margaret Thatcher why she hadn’t employed her tough new labor laws against a militant trade union. “Mr Ivens,” the...
Swift justice has made hooligans think twice about joining the mobs that brought mayhem to Britain’s streets last week. Round-the-clock courts and...
The worst targeted attack on children in Britain for nearly three decades left three little girls dead and five more seriously wounded on Monday. A...
After its worst electoral drubbing in history, the Conservative Party is staging a so-called beauty contest, with nominations for the party...
David Lammy, Labour’s foreign secretary, insists he can find “common ground” with his Republican pal JD Vance, Donald Trump’s pick for his...