Garvan Walshe: Donald Trump, modern-day Marxist
Globalisation has divided rich countries economically. Trump speaks for those who have lost out.
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Rebecca Coulson: My predictions for what will – and won’t – happen in 2016
In 2015, nuance was killed off and it became offensive to dismiss astrology as bunkum. So join me as I gaze into my crystal ball…
Henry Hill: Ministers warned of IRA threat to mainland Britain
Also: SNP plan to get cabbies reporting children’s conversations; Scottish Labour get free vote on EU; DUP accused of driving UUP off cross-border bodies; and more.
Nick Timothy: Will Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Charlotte Church and Katie Hopkins please shut up?
My 2016 wish: a vow of silence from our pompous, hypocritical, self-obsessed political celebrities.
Daniel Hannan: 2015 was the best year in human history, and 2016 will be better yet
Whether we measure literacy or longevity, infant mortality or sexual equality, the world in 2015 was a better place during this past twelve months.
Henry Hill: Mundell spearheads attack on SNP budget
Also: IRA victims calls Corbyn out; Welsh UKIP chief backs Farage; DUP elect first female leader; Carmichael takes police advice after death threat; and more.
Iain Dale: Prat. Gaffe. Scoop. And Treacherous Bastard. My End of Year Awards.
Plus: Thank you for the three bottles of vintage wine…but you forgot to enclose a note with your name. Christmas, eh?
Garvan Walshe: Poland’s anti-democratic new government puts Thatcher’s Eastern Europe legacy in danger
Establishing democratic government in Eastern Europe was the great success of the Cold War. Poland’s new administration has set about destroying it.
Rebecca Coulson: Is Rawabi for real?
I think regularly about the new West Bank Palestinian city that I visited , and how some of the things that confused me then still do now.
Henry Hill: Cairns sets out tax-cutting case for Welsh Conservatives
Also: SNP under unprecedented pressure over bridge closure; Foster set for coronation as DUP leader and First Minister; UKIP on the rise in Wales as Labour fall back; and more.
From Reggie to Dessie: It’s Mike Penning as Father Christmas – and carols led by Dr Coffey on a karaoke machine
Plus: Boris’s party is raided by the Vice and Drugs Squads. The Home Secretary says it was “a police operational decision”
Nick Timothy: Labour’s crisis is not about Corbyn – it’s existential
Relatively moderate members of the Opposition know that they disagree with the Hard Left, but they have no idea what to do in response.
Nadhim Zahawi MP: We send people to prison as punishment. We shouldn’t send them there to be punished.
Gove’s drive for better treatment and rehabilitation offers another opportunity for radical Conservative reform.
Iain Dale: My grandmother would never use the word “fart”. Instead, she would use the word…
Boles was wrong about the Party Chairman. Yes, I fess up to knowing Donal Blaney. And: The UKIP GLA candidate trying to borrow a London address.
Lewis Baston: How does Cameron shape up to the other Tory leaders who lasted for ten years or more?
Is he a Salisbury or a Baldwin, a Disraeli or a Thatcher?