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The fall-out from the local elections continue. In the West Midlands, Labour pulled off a shock upset to unseat Andy Street by 1,500 votes. The...
So, it didn’t take long for the recriminations to begin. After Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives were subject to a massive drubbing in this week’s...
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While the West obsesses about whether or not China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, is going to invade Taiwan, the Taiwanese seemingly have other...
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Earlier this week, Ireland’s newly installed Taoiseach, Simon Harris, made an outrageous proposal to deploy 100 policemen to control immigration...
In the end, the Tories did just as badly as predicted in the local elections. They lost about half of the council seats they were defending as well...
Andy Street was a political outsider when he was chosen as the Conservative party’s candidate for mayor of the new West Midlands Combined Authority...
It’s not a pleasant feeling to know there are colleagues in your workplace who think you should be summarily dismissed and marched out of the...
While Labour has gained councillors across England, and won bellwether councils such as Nuneaton and Bedworth and Milton Keynes, it has also lost...
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Like drowning men clutching at straws, Giorgia Meloni’s opponents are trying ever more hopelessly to justify their claim that she is a...
Back to London for the city’s mayoral elections – and the verdict is in. In a win for Labour, Sadiq Khan has been hailed as victor for an...
So what was that all about? Rumours that Susan Hall was close to toppling Sadiq Khan have proved to be wide of the mark. In the event, Hall is...
Sadiq Khan has won the London mayoral race with 43.8 per cent of the vote to the Tory candidate Susan Hall on 32.7 per cent. Despite widespread...
‘Consolidation’ is the word on Lib Dem lips today, as the party mulls its solid, if not spectacular, progress in Thursday’s local elections. Ed...
In one of the closest mayoral elections ever seen, Andy Street has been defeated as mayor of West Midlands by Labour’s Richard Parker in a...
Tory supporters went to bed last night believing that their man Andy Street would hold on handily in the West Midlands Metro Mayor contest, while...
I don’t have much in common with Charlotte Church (I support the ancient state of Israel, whereas she supports Narnia; she’s still relatively...
Given the universal forecasts of the Tories taking a proper pasting in yesterday’s elections, it is quite something for Rishi Sunak’s party to...
For Mussolini’s 60th birthday, Hitler gave him a de luxe edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s complete works, bound in blue pigskin. After the war,...
Oh dear. As local election results start to trickle in, it’s not looking good for the Conservatives. Rishi Sunak’s party has, at the time of...
Keir Starmer is celebrating significant gains in the local elections as the Tories attempt to put a gloss on a night of tricky losses. Overnight,...
Russell Brand was baptised on Sunday, he says – in the River Thames, despite his tongue-in-cheek fear of catching a virus – and he’s thrilled...
On Saturday 12 December 1964, Harold Wilson addressed his first Labour party conference as prime minister, George Harrison was photographed with...
Labour has won the Blackpool by-election with the Conservatives narrowly claiming second place ahead of the Reform party. Rishi Sunak’s party...
Counting is underway across England and Wales but the picture in the local elections is already clear: Tory losses and a red wave. Yesterday saw...
It’s only the beginning of a long weekend of election results, but so far so bad for Rishi Sunak’s Tory party. Even the veteran Tory commentator...
The fighting talk continues over at Reform HQ as local election results continue to drip out. The Farage-founded party’s right-wing campaign has...
The Conservatives have, as predicted, had a pretty awful night, but is there any comfort they can draw from the local election results? True, the...
Pulling off the rhetorical trick that Brexit would undermine the Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement, Michel Barnier, the EU negotiator, said in...
Purging the left has been one of Keir Starmer’s main goals since his election as leader four years ago. His team has taken the whip off Jeremy...
The council election results are coming in thick and fast — and as is the bad news for Rishi Sunak. While Labour has gained over 50 seats at the...
It’s not been a good night for the Tories – but Labour has not emerged unscathed either. Sir Keir Starmer’s party suffered the surprise loss of...
Is Labour on course to be the largest party at the next election but miss out on a majority? Despite recent opinion polls suggesting Keir...
Rishi Sunak can breathe a sigh of relief. Ben Houchen, the so-called ‘patron saint of the red wall’, has won a third term as Tees Valley mayor....
Unsurprisingly, the overnight results from the local elections have been very bruising for the Conservatives. Local election results day is often...
Hold your wine glass steady: the BBC has news for you. This week it splashed the news that train drivers in the UK are ‘overwhelmingly...
Labour people are used to defeat. Before every election they wonder if the Tories will defy expectations. Real votes are not the same as opinion...
The election for the first North East of England mayor should have been a gift to the Labour party. Its candidate Kim McGuinness has duly won the...
America’s National Public Radio (NPR) this week likened the 2024 student protests in campuses across the USA to those of 1968. Similar...
It is a thankless morning for Tories on the media round. Faced with the loss of half of their council seats, ministers are resorting to the time-...
From Hartlepool in the red wall to true blue Rushmoor, Labour has made gains across the country. But as Keir Stramer chalks up the wins, he also...
John Cleese appeared in the West End this week. ‘I’ve got vertigo,’ he said as he walked on stage at the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue. ‘I cannot...
Any insurgent political party needs a breakthrough moment. For the SNP, it was Winnie Ewing’s victory in the 1967 Hamilton by-election. For the...
The battle over sexism and equality at the Garrick Club continues to rumble on. It was revealed yesterday that several of its members,...
If City of Troy is as brilliant as his trainer Aidan O’Brien thinks he is and he runs to his best form, then he will win the first Classic of the...
When Joseph Stiglitz talks, the left listens. The Nobel laureate has advised multiple Democratic presidents and the World Bank, where he worked as...
When the idea of having Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) first arose it seemed so promising. These would be locally elected candidates, tough...
The original Olympic Games established a basic canon of seven games unchanged over some 900 years: foot, horse and chariot races, boxing,...
Five Guys is a burger house from Arlington, Virginia, based on the premise that if you can serve a drink, cut a fringe, or make a hamburger, you...
‘We invented the name Blaue Reiter whilst sitting around a coffee table in Marc’s garden at Sindelsdorf… we both loved blue, Marc liked horses...
I’ve been reading a book by the American journalist Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy – which describes just how demented our obsession has become...
Poor Gareth Southgate. Having three outstanding finishers is giving him a thumping headache ahead of the European Championship. Harry Kane, Jude...
You know that feeling when you haven’t seen someone for several years and when you do, you really notice the changes? Generally it is a...
One challenge facing any novel, drama or film about the Holocaust is to restore its sheer unimaginability. In Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark...
In Europe at the end of the Noughties, the problem drug was krokodil. The semi-synthetic, necrosis-causing alternative to heroin was cheap. My...
By any measure, Sadiq Khan deserves to lose the London mayoral election. Khan has been terrible for the capital, yet barring an upset by the Tory...
The American artist and critic Brad Troemel once pointed out that art galleries have all turned into a kind of adult daycare, and ever since then I...
Ever since Rishi Sunak became leader of the Conservative party, he has been preparing for this week. Entering 10 Downing Street without winning a...
It’s official. I live in the unhappiest place in Britain. Who says so? My neighbours here in Hillingdon, that’s who. They’ve been polled by...
Happy local elections day, one and all. As voters head to the polls across the country, the talk in Westminster is how bad the result is going to...
The expected coronation of John Swinney, a 60-year-old yesterday’s man, as SNP leader is bleak news for the independence movement. When Swinney –...
Back to Scotland, where the SNP remains in a state of disarray. After hapless Humza Yousaf rather badly mishandled the ditching of the Greens from...
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill’s description of Soviet Russia in 1939 could also apply to the independent...
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) latest report, published this morning, downgrades Britain’s growth prospects...
If you want to know how deep is the crisis in which the Scottish National Party currently finds itself, let this sink in: the next leader of the...
When you are in a hole, it is maybe best to stop digging. That is advice Daniel Radcliffe would have been wise to heed when he responded to JK...
In 1928, a young physicist and engineer named Karl Jansky began working at Bell Telephone Laboratories, tasked with investigating any sources of...
A recent analysis has concluded that ‘British public opinion has got so used to things being bad/chaotic it’s hard to imagine anything else.’...
One Saturday last July, a couple of hundred people gathered in a conference centre on the bank of the Thames to talk about education. In an earlier...
Damian Thompson has narrated this article for you to listen to. It’s been 30 years this month since I last touched alcohol and I still can’t face...
Why do faith schools excite such passions? Obviously people care a lot about religion, and education, but there’s something else at work too....
The worst thing that happened to me over the pandemic was I got ‘really into beer’. I was already into it in the most straightforward way: I...
For over 20 years, Britain effectively gave up on building new nuclear power stations. But that’s changed now, Hinkley Point C in Somerset, is...
There’s a certain type of Tory who goes a bit gooey-eyed whenever David Cameron speaks. Since his Lordship’s return to the frontline of British...
With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems,...
Over the past few years Wes Streeting has established himself as one of the more open-minded and reasonable members of the shadow cabinet. Rather...
There are a number of very good reasons that Kate Forbes is not standing for SNP leader. Chief amongst them is that she’d lose again. John Swinney...
Elections have a wonderful way of focusing a politician’s mind. So it is with Rishi Sunak and the Tories, who are hoping their Rwanda Bill will...
Joe Biden just threw a particularly nasty insult the way of Japan, a close ally of the United States, at a campaign event. The president accused...
To quote Private Frazer in Dad’s Army, ‘We’re doomed, doomed!’ That seems to be the message of Paul Cooper’s eminently readable series of...
Death’s great paradox is its inconstant constancy. Its forms and rituals change from generation to generation. In our own era, antibiotics have...
Agathe by Angela J. Davis follows the early phases of the Rwanda genocide 30 years ago. The subject, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, became prime minister...
You could very well sum up their differing approaches to American roots music from how they were dressed. Both wore cowboy hats and both wore...
In 2010, when his thrillingly edgy and angry Political Mother delivered modern dance a winding punch right where it hurt, I had high hopes for...
Poor old parsley sauce. As someone who writes regularly about old-fashioned food, it often feels that we are living through a golden revival of...
No-one seems to like tourists any more. This week Venice introduced its €5 entry charge – which merely buys you the right to go into the city and...
The other day a nice Albanian builder came round. He was in an upbeat mood because his son had been admitted to Cardinal Vaughan, a London school...
It’s the flash that shocks you first. It’s night and you’re driving in the outside lane of the motorway at a speed that isn’t exactly the...
Could Russell Brand, who has just been baptised, become a significant Christian figure? I suppose he could become a sort of British televangelist,...
Gen Z is often described as a sexless generation. We are having less sex than previous generations did at the same age. We are less likely to...
More than four million women and girls live in London. They represent over half (51 per cent) of the capital’s population. But under Mayor Sadiq...
The principal purpose of Captain James Cook’s last voyage, which began in Plymouth on 12 July 1776, was to discover the elusive Northwest...
Could Rishi Sunak be about to win the next general election? That suggestion, made at Prime Minister’s Questions today by one of his backbenchers...
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