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As he walks into No. 10, Andy Burnham needs to be aware that the UK stands exposed to an avalanche of spurious and hugely expensive legal claims from...
Nigel Farage has never been afraid to gamble, and many times before he’s seen his big bets pay off. His decision to resign as the MP for Clacton and...
I think I’ve finally figured out why the leaders of Europe are so upset at the United States. The never-ending outpouring of rage from European and...
How can Britain cut its spiralling benefits budget and the number of alienated youths spending taxpayer-generated monies on frivolous consumer goods,...
James Delingpole has narrated this article for you to listen to. I tried to think, Pointless-style, of two of the countries least likely to be...
Politicians love banning things. Even if the threats they worry about don’t actually exist. In February 2019, amid Conservative defections and the...
How can Britain cut its spiralling benefits budget and the number of alienated youths spending taxpayer-generated monies on frivolous consumer goods,...
In late 1954, the proprietor of these august pages, Sir Angus Watson of Skippers Sardines fame, thought he was selling his magazine to the son...
Close your eyes and cast your mind back, if you will, to the summer of 2024. Britain had just crowned a new prime minister, our fortunes in a major...
Two hours and 17 minutes after arriving at Wimbledon, I realise I hate tennis. Hate it? I loathe it. All ‘40-love’ jargon and...
If there’s one thing more boring than people telling you about their dreams, it’s people telling you about their exercise. And...
Watching Andy Burnham in Manchester, dressed in his T-shirt and jacket and pronouncing the return of a more old-fashioned, pro-worker left, I had a...
The 2018 Florida governor’s race will go down as one of the great sliding-doors moments in American politics. Ron DeSantis, after “begging” for...
Democrats are finally pulling the plug on Graham Platner, the failson whose juvenile addiction to schizophrenic online message boards, rad Nazi...
It is a mark of Nigel Farage’s position on the nation’s consciousness that he has succeeded in pushing the judgement in the Prince Harry vs...
A helicopter took off from Sandown on the Isle of Wight during August bank holiday last summer in what should have been a routine flying lesson,...
Rupert Lowe has confirmed that Restore will sit out the upcoming Clacton by-election. Nigel Farage’s enemy on the right said he refuses ‘to...
He probably won’t want to hear this but there is an air of General De Gaulle about Nigel Farage. De Gaulle came to define French politics through a...
Nigel Farage, the Reform leader, has come out fighting in response to the intense scrutiny and revelations about his personal finances. He says he...
It was always going to go this way. Every gambler eventually loses, and the higher profile that loss, the greater the eventual humiliation. But...
Nigel Farage has announced he is resigning from the House of Commons to fight a by-election in Clacton. In a 16-minute live statement from Milbank...
Who ever let a spot of rain get in the way of a good time? Donald Trump’s July 4 festivities were delayed by several hours due to the threat of...
In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is...
Not only were the England fans outnumbered by 30 to one inside the Azteca stadium, but on their way to and from the game they had to run a gauntlet of...
Donald Trump’s quest for regime change in Iran has backfired horribly. The president misunderstood the resilience of the 47-year-old Islamic...
When President Trump refers to Nancy Pelosi as “Nervous Nancy,” you might assume he’s talking about her policies or leadership style. But maybe...
Being in Britain around the Fourth of July is always an odd experience for an American. It was especially awkward to be at the Alliance for...
I have always wondered whether The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton’s piscine classic, would have enjoyed its wide and longstanding recognition absent...
Earlier this year, a poll conducted by the University of Massachusetts and the market research firm YouGov found that 70 percent of Americans have a...
Donald Trump has made it clear that he’s attending this year’s Nato summit in Ankara for one reason only: ‘respect for President Erdogan.’...
When Taylor Swift, the billionaire pop star, announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, the rather less wealthy (although still multi-millionaire) NFL...
Elon Musk is hardly lacking for toys. He can spend the morning digging vast tunnels with Hyperloop, the afternoon launching rockets with SpaceX and...
Commentators were so busy fulminating against Trump’s Fifa shenanigans yesterday they mostly missed his intervention in the big story now roiling...
The BMA makes lots of vague demands for recognition and autonomy, control and civility – Madeline Grant, hearing similar words coming from Angela...
Marine Le Pen has failed to overturn her conviction for misusing EU funds. On Tuesday afternoon a court in Paris upheld the verdict against her,...
Commentators were so busy fulminating against Trump’s Fifa shenanigans yesterday they mostly missed his intervention yesterday in the big story now...
Red Ed Miliband’s heat pump bonanza cost taxpayers and bill-payers an eye-watering £498.6 million in 2025/26, new research shows. So much for the...
Donald Trump has made it clear that he’s attending this year’s Nato summit in Ankara for one reason only: ‘respect for President Erdogan.’...
‘Only the little people pay taxes,’ New York hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley was once reputed to have said. She later discovered, as she was jailed...
Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...
The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...
Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...
Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is someone who wants to be liked even more than respected. He wants to be seen by Australians as one...
We’re in the middle of an ‘orderly transition’ of power from Keir Starmer to whoever might just possibly take over from him – it’s...
Sir Keir Starmer attended his first Nato summit in Washington, DC four days after becoming Prime Minister in July 2024. Now, almost exactly two years...
Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...
Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...
The bishop hit us in the face. That was the best thing about confirmation. When I was 12, along with every other boy in the school, I was formally...
Last week David Hockney was cited as an example of a great English artist who insisted on working, like ancient Greek sculptors, in a well-established...
Straight from a weekend of helping a friend with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, I drove to Nice airport to pick up my eldest daughter, her...