What will be the electoral impact of Labour’s anti-semitism?
Last year’s General Election came as a shock. But Jeremy Corbyn may finally be running out of excuses for the dubious company he keeps.
Twenty years on, the Belfast Agreement’s devolution model isn’t working
Evidence is mounting that the Assembly simply doesn’t – and perhaps can’t – deliver good government consistently. But the deal which founded it is treated as holy writ.
Dr Johnson is an inspiring companion at Easter
His profound sense of failure, and scorching humility, live on in his notes to himself in his Prayers and Meditations.
The new Gove has all the energy and imagination of the old – but is less willing to fight others. What’s changed?
Is he adapting to get things done? Might he be adjusting to life as an emergent elder statesman? Or could it all be about leadership ambition? His reinvention continues.
Should new NHS spending be funded by a tax increase? Is Russia a threat to our security? The transition deal – good or bad?
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The Grand Old Duke of Gauke should have stuck with his instincts on the Worboys case
All credit to the brave victims who brought the legal challenge, and to those who backed them. But the Government should have fought the decision in the first place.
Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Corbyn evades Worboys and Brexit as well as anti-semitism
He is the laziest and most self-indulgent Leader of the Opposition in living memory.
Are Brexiteer MPs paper tigers?
At each turn to date, they have decided that the best shouldn’t be the enemy of the good. Which suggests that they won’t vote against any heads of agreement – however imperfect.
Sketch: Corbyn spurns Labour’s Jewish members, who demonstrate their sense of utter betrayal
The failure to confront anti-semitism within the Labour Party has led to a total breakdown of trust.
Eighteen countries express solidarity with the UK by expelling Russian ‘diplomats’
The “extraordinary international response by our allies” amounts to “the largest collective expulsion of Russian intelligence officers ever”, Johnson says.
We cannot tax our way to prosperity – or better public services
If a new tax is not to be posited as the answer to each new problem, Conservatives must start thinking about new ways of controlling the rise in spending.
To Diehard Remainers. You lost. Get over it. Drop the conspiracy theories – and stop assuming Leave voters are thick.
Lavish campaign spending does not guarantee electoral success. If it did, Brexit wouldn’t be happening. And Theresa May would now have a majority.
Can May turn a good foreign policy week into political advantage at home?
Both leading EU states and the US are following the Prime Minister’s lead on Russia.
Heathrow’s engines rev up
But expansion won’t take off for a long time yet, if at all – and, ominously for the Government, a Select Committee report published today has big concerns about costs.
The reaction to the NHS pay offer shows that relaxing austerity will not be as easy as some imagine
It might please nurses, but provokes new pay demands from teachers, doctors and soldiers. Nor would a hypothecated ‘NHS Tax’ make the issue go away.