7 h. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: We have the most deceitful leaders of modern times. Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell seem like novices in comparison

What shall we do about a Chancellor who misrepresented her professional achievements before entering Parliament, and in office has broken promise after promise?

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16 h. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: We have the most deceitful leaders of modern times. Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell seem like novices in comparison

What shall we do about a Chancellor who misrepresented her professional achievements before entering Parliament, and in office has broken promise after promise?

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4 d. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: By punishing the savers and strivers, Reeves has proved she's motivated by old

At last we know for sure. This Labour Government hates wealth creators. It loathes not simply the truly rich but also the better-off - those who work hard and save and try to do the best for their families.

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4 d. ago Voices: Never mind the backbenchers – this Budget will squeeze working people until it hurts

Editorial: Make no mistake, this was a traditional Labour ‘tax and spend’ budget of the kind not seen since before the days of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown – and while it will please the party, for many it will feel like a kick in the teeth

Economics

7 d. ago Starmer is far too weak to call out Trump's vile betrayal of Ukraine. The President treats him like his butler: STEPHEN GLOVER

Why do many people on the Right of British politics persist in regarding Donald Trump as a hero?

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8 d. ago Labour MPs say Starmer will quit in the New Year before he's forced to face a leadership challenge... and only NINE percent of voters think he'll still be Prime Minister after the next election

At the start of a crunch week for the PM, with one of the most anticipated Budgets of modern times taking place against the backdrop of plots against him, MPs are suspicious of his 'new zen-like mood'.

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1 week ago Tony Blair’s think tank joins calls for £300 cut in energy prices ahead of Budget

A report by the Energy Crisis Commission has called for next week’s Budget to include details on how the government will reduce the gap between electricity and gas prices

Economics

1 week ago Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists

Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between speciesFrom Galápagos albatrosses to polar bears, chimpanzees to orangutans, certain species appear to kiss. Now researchers suggest Neanderthals did it too – and might even have locked lips with modern humans.It is not the first time scientists have suggested Neanderthals and early modern humans were intimately acquainted. Among previous studies, researchers have found humans and their thick-browed cousins shared the same mouth microbe for hundreds of thousands of years after the two species split, suggesting they swapped saliva. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Home Secretary has finally grasped something about immigration few in Labour understand. But I still have two grave doubts about her plan to curtail it: STEPHEN GLOVER

Illegal immigration is 'tearing Britain apart', Shabana Mahmood told yesterday's Sunday Times. The Home Secretary used the same words later on the BBC.

Society

2 w. ago Scot suing housing association over claims mould ridden flat has destroyed his health

Tony Blair, who has been diagnosed pneumonia three times, says his bouts of ill health and worsening asthma have come after he moved into his Glasgow flat, owned by Queens Cross Housing Association, in 2017.

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2 w. ago Asylum seekers will only be allowed to stay in the UK temporarily under radical reforms

Shabana Mahmood promises ‘the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times’ in Monday speech

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2 w. ago Starmer’s shambles in No 10 risks handing power to Farage, Alastair Campbell warns

Tony Blair’s former director of communications intervention comes as the PM comes under pressure to sack his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

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2 w. ago UK town trapped in time with amazing retro chippy and technology

A market town, just a short drive from Birmingham, transports visitors back in time to an era that shaped modern Britain, in addition to its notable links to the Titanic and Peaky Blinders

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3 w. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Davie had to go but who believes it will really change the woke sect that the BBC has become?

Nearly a week has passed since we learned about a leaked report showing how BBC 's Panorama had doctored a speech by Donald Trump to make him say something awful that he hadn't actually said.

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3 w. ago Why pensioners could be hardest hit in the Budget if Rachel Reeves gets her way and the poorest will feel it the most

I BELIEVE this could be the worst Budget in modern times for pensioners. Rumours are rife about Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plans on November 24 when she delivers her Budget. But one thing is for sure, pensioners are in her sights. Earlier this week, the Chancellor said: “each of us must do our bit”. MPs repeatedly...

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3 w. ago Tony Blair to meet in London with families of slain hostages still in Gaza

Tony Blair to meet in London with families of slain hostages still in Gaza  Ynetnews

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3 w. ago Reeves must slash tax again before next election if she breaks manifesto pledge, Tony Blair think tank warns

Labour chancellor told any tax hikes must be temporary in a bid to break Britain’s ‘tax-and-spend doom loop’

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3 w. ago The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty

For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous endsZohran Mamdani was forged in the era of Donald Trump. He came to socialism through watching Bernie Sanders run for the US presidency in 2016, in the contest that ultimately gave us Trump I. Last November, a few days after the election of Trump II, he asked voters why they’d backed that guy. The conversations prepared Mamdani in his battle for New York, and the film of them reveals so much about the politics of this era that it repays watching.Those of us schooled in the tactics of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair might roll our eyes at yet another “listening exercise”, starring a powerbroker and his retinue in some beautifully lit hall, but this is no such thing. Here stands an unknown on a street corner in the Bronx, waving a placard as doughtily as a Seventh-Day Adventist. Rather than read off a Rolodex of platitudes, this politician sees his public – some of ...

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3 w. ago I've got news for the BBC bosses who think they'll get away with fabricating a damaging Trump quote: A huge storm is coming: STEPHEN GLOVER

What would you say if you learnt that the BBC had doctored a video of a politician's speech to make him sound more extreme, incendiary and dangerous than he really was?

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4 w. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Is this the REAL reason Rachel Reeves has not been sacked for breaking the law?

She made a crucial change in information she gave the Prime Minister about the letting of her house in the London Borough of Southwark from September 2024.

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