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Jon Sopel’s Twitter U-turn

Dear oh dear. The left-wing Twitter scourge hasn’t gone quite as well as users may have hoped. Following Donald Trump’s victory at the start of...

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Why is the BBC staying silent on Reeves’s CV claims?

Rachel Reeves remains in the spotlight after weeks of scrutiny over her rather curious CV claims. Mr S documented the full timeline of events on...

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Watch: Clarkson blasts BBC in farmers’ protest interview

Thousands of farmers descended on Westminster this morning to protest the Labour government’s new inheritance tax plans. As protesters brandished...

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Watch: Mandelson urges PM to end ‘feud’ with Musk

Well, well, well. Picking a fight with Elon Musk is hardly the wisest decision Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot have made so far, especially given the...

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Full timeline: Rachel Reeves’s CV claims

Dear oh dear. Rachel Reeves has ended up in something of a pickle over her employment history, with the Chancellor under fire over whether she has...

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Scottish Labour leader pushes back on winter fuel payment cut

While farmers gather in Westminster today to protest Labour’s Budget, it appears that north of the border Scottish Labour also have doubts about...

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SNP in new civil war over double jobs

Ding ding ding! All is not well in the SNP as the Nats are back to fighting among themselves over the issue of double jobs. Last week Westminster...

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British Sikhs blast Starmer’s ‘incompetence’

Another day, another Downing Street drama. This time No. 10 is in trouble with the British Sikh community after it transpired its social media...

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Amy Lamé embarrasses herself – again

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SNP health secretary embroiled in expenses debacle

To Scotland, where the Nats are once again under scrutiny over expenses claims. It now transpires that not only had SNP health secretary Neil Gray...

15.11.2024 5

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Failed ex-FM claims Musk ‘scours’ his messages

Hapless Humza Yousaf certainly picks his battles – and this week the former first minister has taken aim at Elon Musk. On a Tortoise media podcast,...

15.11.2024 6

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Chagos latest: Mauritian ex-PM banned from leaving country

The circumstances of David Lammy’s Chagos deal get murkier and murkier. This week, the incumbent Mauritian government went to the polls – and got...

15.11.2024 6

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Led by Donkeys gets it wrong (again)

Good old Remainiacs: where would be without them? It is eight years now since the UK voted to quit the EU and nearly five since we actually left –...

15.11.2024 10

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Downing Street finally apologises for Diwali debacle

Oh dear. It is more than a week since Steerpike broke the news of Downing Street’s Diwali debacle. Many Hindu attendees at the No. 10 reception were...

15.11.2024 10

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Parliament shells out 900k on cobblestones

Whether it’s falling masonry or brazen rats, staff in the Houses of Parliament have to put up with a lot in their workplace. Since 2020 they have to...

14.11.2024 6

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Watch: Haka protest disrupts New Zealand’s parliament

To New Zealand, where parliamentary proceedings have become rather, er, heated during discussions on the Treaty Principles Bill. During a debate about...

14.11.2024 10

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Clifton Suspension Bridge takes brave stand against Musk’s Twitter

First they came for the Guardian , and then they came for the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In a move that will surely come as a blow to tech...

14.11.2024 7

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Will Justin Welby lose his Lords seat?

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby this week announced he will resign from the top job after the pressure piled on from Church of England...

14.11.2024 10

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Foreign Office flogs off £1bn of buildings

It was Norman Tebbit who joked that the Ministry of Agriculture looked after farmers while ‘the job of the Foreign Office is to look after...

13.11.2024 4

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Farage rated most favourable of Britain’s politicians

As Sir Keir Starmer’s fortunes go from bad to worse, things only seem to be improving for Nigel Farage. While Reform eye up a possible by-election...

13.11.2024 10

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MSPs in winter fuel payment hypocrisy

Back to Scotland, where parliamentarians are under scrutiny over questionable expenses claims – this time on heating their second homes. It...

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The Guardian announces it’s leaving Twitter – on Twitter

The absurdity of the Guardian never fails to amuse. Now the lefty newspaper has decided it is too good for one of the world’s most used social media...

13.11.2024 10

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Watch: Lib Dem MP flounders on assisted dying

The Terminally Ill Adults has at last been published and MPs can finally pour over the detail. But one supporter of assisted dying who might want to...

13.11.2024 10

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How many parliamentary police are failing fitness tests?

They’re the redoubtable men and women who keep our legislature safe. But is the thin blue line around the Commons looking a little bigger these...

12.11.2024 9

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Who will be the next Archbishop of Canterbury?

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has this afternoon announced he will resign from the role after days of pressure from Church of England...

12.11.2024 9

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Sue Gray rejects Starmer’s non-job

Goodbye Sue Gray. A mere 32 days after taking a ‘short break’ from No. 10, Keir Starmer’s ex-chief of staff has today confirmed she will not...

12.11.2024 10

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Watch: Ex-Blair aide takes a pop at Britain’s farmers

Farmers across the country have been in uproar since Rachel Reeves’s Budget. Just weeks ago the Chancellor announced that agricultural land and...

12.11.2024 10

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Tories overtake Labour in first poll since Badenoch victory

When it rains, it pours for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot. The polls have gone downhill since Starmer’s army got into power, and the latest More...

12.11.2024 8

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SNP Westminster leader faces backlash over Holyrood bid

Another day, another SNP drama. This morning the SNP’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn announced he will stand as a candidate in the 2026 Holyrood...

12.11.2024 6

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Coutinho blasts Miliband’s energy claims as ‘total nonsense’

While Sir Keir Starmer faces the world’s media today at Cop29 in Baku, his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is on the airwaves this morning fielding...

12.11.2024 10

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Gary Lineker to leave Match of the Day

After years of tweaking the tail of BBC bosses, it seems that Gary Lineker has finally had enough. The left-wing centre forward is reportedly stepping...

11.11.2024 6

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May backs Hague for Oxford Chancellor bid

In a year of elections, none are bigger than that for Oxford Chancellor. Just five candidates remain in the race to head England’s oldest...

11.11.2024 10

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SNP health secretary under fire over football

What is it with separatist health secretaries claiming from the public purse for the footie? First there was the £11,000 iPad scandal, which caused a...

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JK Rowling blasts Campbell over women’s rights remarks

Has The Rest is Politics podcast peaked? Its hosts have certainly had a rather rocky ride of late – with ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart widely mocked last...

11.11.2024 10

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Labour minister obfuscates over defence spend target

While Sir Keir Starmer is in France this Armistice Day to place wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe, the Prime Minister’s defence secretary is doing the...

11.11.2024 8

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Could Streeting’s smoking ban breach Brexit terms?

Labour ministers are very keen to be good Europeans. But could the cause of closer continental ties come at the price of Wes Streeting’s smoking...

10.11.2024 10

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BBC under fire over Amsterdam attack coverage

Football fans are known to get a little rowdy after a game, but the horror that broke out after the Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax game on Thursday night...

08.11.2024 7

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Oxford Chancellor race in new transparency row

It’s the election drama obsessing much of Westminster. No, not Donald v Kamala but rather the race to be Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The...

08.11.2024 6

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Jonathan Powell named National Security Adviser

In an uncertain age, who do you want keeping the nation safe? How about the guy who just bartered away the Chagos Islands? Yes, that’s right, fresh...

08.11.2024 5

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What does a Trump victory mean for Prince Harry?

Dear oh dear. Donald Trump’s presidential victory has not thrilled everyone – and, Mr S suspects, least of all Prince Harry. The president-elect...

08.11.2024 10

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Is Rishi Sunak off already?

It’s less than a week since he formally handed over the reins of power – but Rishi Sunak is wasting no time. On Wednesday, just five days after he...

07.11.2024 10

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Guardian staff offered Trump therapy over ‘upsetting’ result

While Republicans across the US celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and eagerly await his return to the White House, those that backed the wrong horse...

07.11.2024 5

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Did 100 Labour activists scare off 400k Democrat voters?

Was it Labour wot lost it? It was less than a month ago, as Kamala Harris appeared to be riding high, that dozens of bright-eyed British Starmtroopers...

07.11.2024 5

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Mike Amesbury due in court as Reform eyes seat

It’s never too long before Labour’s woes are back in the news. Now suspended MP Mike Amesbury has been summonsed to court to face an assault...

07.11.2024 8

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Will these celebs really leave the US over Trump?

Despite receiving the backing of a whole host of A-listers, including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris still managed to...

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Labour minister refuses to deny Trump has ‘Nazi sympathies’

The US election has been and gone and Donald Trump emerged victorious, with the former president set to re-enter the White House. The government sent...

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Downing Street’s Diwali debacle

Twelve months ago, it was Rishi Sunak who was lighting a candle outside No. 10. So with a new regime installed in office, Mr S wondered how Keir...

07.11.2024 7

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Full list: the Cabinet members who blasted Trump

Donald Trump has won the US election, and will become the 47th president of the United States. But while the Republicans celebrate, the Labour lot may...

06.11.2024 8

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SNP members slam Swinney’s support of Kamala

It’s not been First Minister John Swinney’s year. Not only did his Westminster group fail fantastically at the July poll to cling onto their...

06.11.2024 6

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USA / Five Brits who had a bad election night

So Donald Trump is heading for the White House once again. It’s a result that has stunned much of the British commentariat, many of whom fawned over...

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