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Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain’s borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to March 2023, Labour...
One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know how to win people over, keep...
At any other time the GDP figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning would have come as a huge relief for Keir Starmer...
A few weeks ago it seemed as if some sense was finally creeping into Labour’s energy policy. It was reported at one stage that even Ed Miliband...
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who wields the sword never...
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the day that Keir Starmer ought to – and yet still...
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
The thing about white working-class voters, as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 and Nigel Farage is finding out now, is that there are a lot of them....
No amount of Labour spin will disguise the party’s dreadful night, but the hefty losses of seats in English council areas are nothing more than was...
Just what were business leaders expecting when so many of them sucked up to Labour before the 2024 general election? Only Keir Starmer’s party, 121...
I make no suggestion as to whether Christian Brueckner, the convicted rapist suspected of kidnapping and killing Madeleine McCann, is either guilty or...
The worst thing about the government’s plans to force pension providers to invest their money in particular assets is that ministers and MPs...
Sooner or later, Airbnb is going to change its name to Airb, partly because it takes less time to type, and partly because it is becoming a...
Never let a good crisis go to waste, as they say. And Rachel Reeves has made it quite clear that she is going to milk the Iran war for all it is...
Liz Truss’s greatest fiscal sin was her Energy Price Guarantee. True, markets didn’t like her tax cuts unmatched by spending cuts, and a Budget...
Donald Trump’s second presidency began with a blaze of executive orders which horrified and impressed in equal measure. It also begged the...
What have North Sea oil and gas production and grammar school education got in common? Both are subject to a fiddle by which they can be expanded...
First the good news. Some commercial users may be enjoying free electricity at some point this summer – or better still, they may even be paid to...
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but coming at the beginning of a local election campaign in which his party is expected to make a huge...
Our invertebrate government has struck again. Given the chance to show a bit of backbone in the face of demands by the PCS union that staff at the...
Like US wartime presidents before him, Donald Trump made a priority of, and has succeeded, in attaining air superiority over Iran. Unfortunately, he...
How miraculous. Britain is full of people with devastating afflictions, with millions apparently unable to walk a few yards from the nearest car park....
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband has given way and is poised to announce...
At first sight it might seem like the triumph of reason over ideology. The Times is reporting that Ed Miliband has given way and is poised to announce...
Reform UK has just made what could turn out to be an enormous error. Its Treasury spokesman, Robert Jenrick, has committed the party to retaining the...
According to Ed Miliband and Bridget Phillipson, motorists are paying more than they need to at the pumps because of ‘price gouging’ by petrol...
Sooner or later it is going to dawn on Ed Miliband and the rest of the government that anger over Britain’s sky-high energy prices is not going to...
Have markets and governments horribly underestimated the fallout from the Iran war, or is it the doomsters who have got it horribly wrong? President...
Have markets and governments around the world horribly under-estimated the fallout from the war in Iran? That is the claim made by the president of...
This is the way that Brexit ends: not with a bang but with a whimpering submission to EU standards on everything, billions in contributions to the EU...
Like Harold Wilson and his ‘white heat of technology’, Rachel Reeves is presumably hoping that blathering on about AI and quantum computing in her...
I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age of 93, but to read his writings you wonder...
I am sorry to hear of the death of Stanford University Professor of Biology Paul R. Ehrlich at the age of 93, but to read his writings you wonder...
Could there be any greater vindication for the government’s policy of pushing us to buy electric vehicles than the crisis in Iran, which has sent...
Well, who would have guessed? Emboldened by Mauritius’s success in persuading Keir Starmer to surrender the Chagos Islands – which were never even...
How many times has Ed Miliband told us that his renewable energy policies were helping to free us from ‘fossil fuel dictators’? Wind and solar...
Who cares about vacuous influencers whose ghastly apartments in Dubai are being struck by Iranian missiles, wiping the smile off their botoxed lips?...
In the end it wasn’t even close. The Greens won the Manchester Gorton and Denton by-election with some to spare, winning 40.7 per cent of the...
Living longer but spending more of our lives in ill health. That is the rather shocking picture presented by the figures for ‘healthy life...
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia,...
It is finally dawning on the government and the banking industry that it is not such a good idea to put the entire economy at the mercy of a couple of...
Given the relative sizes of their economies, one might conclude that Russia would quake before the military might of Europe’s Nato members. Russia,...
Imagine if spectators at the London Olympics had to gingerly make their way past loose pit bull terriers and XL bullies, some of them rabid. No...
What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they are national leaders, meeting up in...
No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with investment minister Lord...
As a general rule, once a city erects turnstiles to tourist attractions which were once free to visit, it is time to go elsewhere. Never more so than...
Irresponsible Trump, responsible China; that is the message BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the news that the...
Irresponsible Trump, responsible China; that is the message BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt seemed to be sending us by juxtaposing the news that the...
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