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Nigel Farage is the worst of us, but he has a right to speak

There are two good rules-of-thumb when you’re defending liberal democracy against populists. The first is to stand by your principles. And the...

17.04.2024 20

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Britain looks like a basket case on the global stage, a horror pit of tribal warfare

It was a small error in an otherwise excellent report, but that error mutated into a monstrous little gremlin and ate its authors alive. They put...

10.04.2024 6

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In Rishi Sunak’s manic laughter, we see his political doom

It’s a hollow laugh. Each time he does it, it sounds emptier than it was before. Rishi Sunak’s snigger tells you everything you need to know about...

03.04.2024 4

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Rishi Sunak's latest act of stupidity exceeds even his own high standards

He’s done it again. It’s quite spectacular – far beyond the realms of human expectation. The things that Rishi Sunak is doing are so stupid they...

27.03.2024 3

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The Government's punishment for asylum seekers is financial insanity

Cruelty, followed by incompetence, culminating in disaster. That is the Home Office methodology. And the bleak undeniable reality of it was published...

20.03.2024 3

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In Rishi Sunak’s worst week yet, his fecklessness is astonishing

A staggering degree of ineptitude this week, even by Rishi Sunak’s standards. He is operating with a degree of basic incompetence which we had...

13.03.2024 2

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I used to love watching the Tories implode – now it's boring

Budgets are never the most exciting of parliamentary events, but today took the tedium to previously unimaginable new levels. The whole thing was...

06.03.2024 2

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The disturbing reason why Tory MPs won’t use the word ‘Islamophobia’

There’s something obviously broken in the Conservative response to Lee Anderson. At first it seems almost comedic. But then, as you peel away the...

27.02.2024 2

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As our infantile MPs play political games, Gaza burns

You couldn’t ask for better symbolism if you tried. Events in the Middle East are of the utmost seriousness. But in Westminster, MPs are playing an...

21.02.2024 6

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Keir Starmer has made the worst mistake of his leadership so far

Grim week for the Labour Party, and a surprising one too. It’s proved vulnerable at its strongest point. Since Keir Starmer took hold of the party,...

14.02.2024 5

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HS2 sits there like a crime scene - the epitome of our national decline

It’s a stump. A pointless, redundant stump, sitting between London and the Midlands. A relic of a lost era in which we still dreamed that we might...

07.02.2024 2

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What Brexit sovereignty tastes like: the freedom to pay more

You have to keep on reminding yourself of the past. You have to cling to it, so you know you’re not going mad. You have to remember the lies and the...

31.01.2024 3

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The Tories are now trapped between lunacy and extinction

For once in his life, Simon Clarke isn’t wrong. The former chief secretary to the Treasury published a piece in The Daily Telegraph yesterday which...

24.01.2024 20

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Another bloody nose for Sunak and his doomed Rwanda bill

It was the opening skirmish in the Lords battle over the Rwanda bill. Last night, peers defeated the Government by 214 to 171 over a motion about...

23.01.2024 2

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Lee Anderson succeeded precisely because of his inadequacy

And just like that, Lee Anderson was gone. Early yesterday evening, the vice-chair of the Conservative Party quit over an amendment to the Rwanda...

17.01.2024 2

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Tory inadequates are suffering from Rwanda hallucinations

In they come at last. The amendments from Tory hardliners to the Rwanda bill were published on Tuesday night. They are gibberish piled upon nonsense,...

10.01.2024 5

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Farage is out to eat the Tories alive – and Sunak has welcomed him to the feast

Nigel Farage is the ghost at the feast. He’s everywhere and nowhere: an absence that defines the world around it. You could feel that absence up on...

03.01.2024 5

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Finally the true meaning of Brexit is revealed: an extra 68ml of wine

Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...

27.12.2023 3

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Finally the true meaning of Brexit is revealed: an extra 68ml of wine

Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...

27.12.2023 3

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Rishi Sunak’s political torture machine is just getting started

First Christmas, then pain. That’s the calendar sequence facing Rishi Sunak. He’ll get a decent little break now that parliament is in recess for...

20.12.2023 4

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Rishi Sunak's chaotic rage is boiling over

Rishi Sunak keeps smiling. Every day, no matter the context, he plasters that smile on his face like a mask. Nothing can phase him. His MPs rebel, his...

13.12.2023 2

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Boris Johnson is a coward hiding behind a wall of waffle

He arrived under the cloak of darkness, three hours before his testimony to the Covid inquiry. That’s obviously not a normal thing for Boris Johnson...

06.12.2023 4

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At the heart of Tory immigration chaos is a truth no one dares to speak

We’re stuck in a debate with no purchase in reality. Since the latest immigration figures came out last week, the Conservative party has been...

29.11.2023 10

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Tax cut confetti from the Tories today – annihilation at the ballot box next year

Just like that, it came into view. Jeremy Hunt ended his Autumn Statement this afternoon with a promise on national insurance cuts. And by the time he...

22.11.2023 4

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Tax cut confetti from the Tories today – annihilation at the ballot box next year

Just like that, it came into view. Jeremy Hunt ended his Autumn Statement this afternoon with a promise on National Insurance cuts. And by the time he...

22.11.2023 2

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Rwanda decision reveals the Government's tawdry moral disposition in devastating detail

They laid it out, word by word, sentence by sentence. And by the end, Suella Braverman’s reputation lay tattered in the mud. Today’s Supreme Court...

15.11.2023 10

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Malicious and cynical, Suella Braverman was the worst home secretary we have ever had

There’s an awful lot of noise out there today. Big swinging changes in the Cabinet, the complete reversal of Rishi Sunak’s insistence that he was...

13.11.2023 7

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The terrifying thing about Suella Braverman’s bid to heighten tension? She might succeed

You can feel it building towards a cataclysm. And more pernicious than that, it feels as if certain people are willing it towards a cataclysm....

08.11.2023 3

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Rishi Sunak’s love-in with Elon Musk was the biggest national humiliation since Brexit

Rishi Sunak’s love-in with Elon Musk might be the most embarrassing political event I’ve ever witnessed. It’s hard to watch in its entirety. The...

03.11.2023 8

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Helen MacNamara’s testimony will be Boris Johnson’s reputational tombstone

Dominic Cummings was the headline act. People know who he is and they know what he does: angry sweary self-importance combined with a messianic...

01.11.2023 2

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Creating new laws to stop ‘jihad’ protestors will set a dangerous precedent for free speech

The word was spoken sometime on Saturday afternoon, as demonstrators marched through London to protest Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. A separate Hizb...

23.10.2023 2

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The Gaza hospital destruction is pushing us to become cogs in the terror hate machine

The purpose of terrorism is fear. But the purpose of what is happening now in the Middle East is something else. A terrible machine has been...

18.10.2023 2

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Even in the darkness of this horror, we cannot give up on the hope of peace

Sometimes the horror overtakes you. You can feel it gathering up inside you, beneath the skeleton. This week it felt too large to bear, as if the...

12.10.2023 30

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Rishi Sunak’s dreadful smoking ban is his most dangerous policy yet

Rishi Sunak just banned smoking. He didn’t say that and it will not initially feel like it, but it’s what he has done. During his conference...

04.10.2023 2

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The Tories are lost to lunatic conspiracy and moral obsolescence (not that Rishi Sunak cares)

The Conservative Party conference is a circus of idiocy, conspiracy theory, vacuity and mendacity. It’s like watching the death of a living brain....

03.10.2023 20

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Laurence Fox’s women-hating bile has to be the final straw for GB News

Every day, GB News proves itself to be a poison in our political life. And every day, respectable politicians get up, put on a suit, and appear on it,...

27.09.2023 40

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Brexit Britain has a new European future and Keir Starmer knows it

If you squint, and turn your head just right, you can see the future of Europe. It’s a Europe that is more powerful by virtue of offering nation...

20.09.2023 3

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We know Starmer’s asylum policy will work because the Tories are apoplectic about it

Keir Starmer has unveiled a workable asylum policy. You can tell, because all the people who failed in this area of policy are intent on attacking it....

15.09.2023 5

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Theresa May is telling a fairy story about her Brexit deal. This is the truth

Ever since Theresa May left office, she has been telling a story about a prime minister who never existed. She was a great prime minister. She fought...

13.09.2023 2

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It's ridiculous that Musk’s ownership of Starlink can undermine Ukraine's war effort

If the story is true, it marks a moment of supreme moral and strategic importance. According to a new biography of Elon Musk, as reported on CNN, the...

08.09.2023 2

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