I’ve realised something over the years. A fair chunk of billionaires don’t just want to be rich. They want to be untouchable. Question them and you’re either jealous or a communist. That’s the playbook.
Take Jim Ratcliffe. Raise concerns about tax, integrity his divisive (let’s face it, racist) rhetoric and the comments fill up with frothing defenders who can barely write, telling us Jim is only saying what we’re all thinking. ...
Keir Starmer is in trouble. Serious trouble. The kind of trouble you don’t stumble into by accident unless you’re actively moonlighting as your own worst enemy.
His decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, twice sacked by Labour and permanently scented with scandal is every bit as absurd as it sounds. It’s the political equivalent of hiring a lifeguard who’s been fired twice for pushing people under the water.
Let me be clear: I ...
I can’t help but think that Nigel Farage’s recent political manoeuvring isn’t a bold march towards Downing Street, but a carefully choreographed stumble away from it. Because if you genuinely wanted to become Prime Minister, you probably wouldn’t start by surrounding yourself with Robert Jenrick and Nadhim Zahawi. Would you?
Farage has spent his entire career doing what he does best: shouting very loudly from the sidelines. It’s a ...
Donald Trump is now well into his second term, the desk once again occupied by a man who treats the Constitution like terms and conditions he didn’t bother to read. We are now trundling cheerfully towards the mid-terms like passengers on a bus with no brakes not knowing what is coming next.
If it feels surreal, that’s because it is. This is no longer a warning from history, this is the bit that future documentaries will pause on, lower ...
The deep area of low pressure developing and heading across southern England on Friday is one of those weather systems that makes forecasters quietly sigh, put the kettle on, and cancel any plans they had for being confidently correct.
Not because it lacks potential, quite the opposite - but because it sits right on the most awkward of battlegrounds. Cold air is already in place, milder air is trying to barge in from the Atlantic, and the ...
