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I wouldn’t want to make what is turning out to be an unusually miserable January even worse, but I feel bound to remind you that, well, Covid isn’t over. This week, the Spanish health department reimposed mandatory mask-wearing in hospitals and health centres. They have not done this because of
Suddenly we seem to have moved from “can Trump win?” to “can Trump stand?” — and a troubled world watches as the United States, arsenal of democracy and shining city on a hill, turns in on itself once again. The decision by the Colorado Supreme Court that Trump is ineligible under the
If Keir Starmer was at all worried about his party conference getting off to a good start, well, his fears may be said to be safely allayed now. Not only is this a clear victory, but the swing of 20.4 percentage points suggests a haul of 30 or 40 seats at the next general election. That might well leave the SNP at
What with the cost of living crisis, an all-out war in Europe, and schools seemingly dissolving in the rain, there’s not much left of what Fleet Street used to call the “silly season”. But Donald Trump’s public invitation to Meghan Markle to debate with him the question of whether the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Farewell, then, to Ben Wallace – one of the few figures of substance in the cabinet, a man who commanded respect across party lines, and another candidate for the game of “best prime minister we never had”. His record on Ukraine – pre-empting even Boris Johnson in sending military assistance –
As resignation statements go, Nadine Dorries’ is a pretty feeble affair. It’s fair to say it lost any possible element of surprise, because it wasn’t delivered when she actually announced she was quitting as an MP “with immediate effect” back in, erm, June. We know she hates Rishi Sunak for, as she sees it,
The most depressing thing about the Tories running about 20 points behind Labour in the polls is that they’ve clearly decided they can’t win the next election on the usual issues that decide such contests — the cost of living, the economy more generally, public services — and have instead decided to try and win on so-called
Not wanting to be churlish, the latest news on inflation is pretty good. The latest annual rate has come in below expectations. It’s a chunky enough drop — from 8.7 per cent to 7.9 per cent — the underlying or core rate is similarly down (indicating an easing of home-grown wage and cost inflation) and, having stalled last month, things
I’m not sure how much it has cost to charter and refit the Bibby Stockholm, a workers’ accommodation barge now converted into a floating migrant camp, but I think we should all be quite certain that it’s not much of an answer to the migrant crisis. Apart from being bizarre, like the exhausted residual product of some all-day
BoJo is a liar, and now, at last, it’s official. If he hadn’t skipped the Commons just before the Committee of Privileges he’d have been given a 90-day suspension. That is a colossal penalty imposed by this committee of politicians — with a Tory majority — and pretty much unprecedented, and certainly for a former prime minister.
Associate Editor of the Independent.
