BY PAUL T HORGAN Of course, Sir Keir could see a revival in the opinion polls. British armed forces could reveal a Wunderwaffe that, when used by Ukrainians, causes the Russian hordes to retreat from Ukraine like the Blue Meanies did from Pepperland when confronted by The Beatles, while, when used by the USA, permanently secures safe passage in the international waters of the Straits of Hormuz. … Continue reading Kicking the Can
BY PAUL T HORGAN Anything connected with Peter Mandelson seems to inevitably send shockwaves around Westminster and beyond. This is what Mandelson does. As Labour spin-doctor in the 1990s, his job was to disrupt the media landscape and reshape it to an approximation of his design. He did this by commoditising news. After Black Wednesday in 1992, simply everyone in the media seems to have … Continue reading The Mandelson Question
BY TOBIAS GRUB ‘Reginald’ – Straw-Stuffed Independent Takes 63% of Vote on Anti-Pigeon, Anti-Party Ticket LITTLE PIDDLECOMBE, DEVON – In what is being described as the most shocking upset in Devon politics for years, a scarecrow erected outside Piddlecombe Village Hall has been elected to the parish council. “Reginald” – a burlap-headed figure dressed in a moth-eaten tweed waistcoat and one broken welly – stood as … Continue reading Scarecrow Wins Election
BY JACK LANG You have to understand the type. In Kipling’s India, you would meet him at a hill station, a man who would explain the local customs to you very slowly, as if you were a mildly defective coolie. He had a small moustache, a smaller sense of humour, and a profound belief that the universe would reorganise itself if only everyone filled out … Continue reading The Dragon-Slayer of Ponders End
BY NIALL MCPHERSON From the Fabian ‘Wolf’ to the Communist Fist, the Left’s Long Romance with Violence In a quiet corner of Lyon, a young man lies dead, his skull fractured by the boots of masked militants. Quentin Deranque, a nationalist student whose only crime was to stand in defence of women exercising their right to peaceful protest, has become the latest offering on the … Continue reading Crimson Tide
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There is a peculiar and necessary cruelty in the language we reserve for our exhausted public men. When we reach for the ornithological, we are not being poetic; we are being clinical. To be termed a ‘lame duck’ is to be diagnosed. It is to be marked not merely for failure, but for a kind of biological irrelevance. The image is precise: … Continue reading The Lame Duck
BY PAUL T HORGAN That Morgan McSweeney would have to quit his job in Downing Street was all but inevitable as soon as Peter Mandelson was sacked, but it was not for the reasons he gave in his resignation statement. The clue is in his job. McSweeney was Chief of Staff in Sir Keir’s operation. Being Chief of Staff means being able to fire said … Continue reading Roll Out the Barrel
BY PAUL T HORGAN SW1, Friday February 6, 2026: Politician “Shocked” That He Has Been Lied To There was outrage in Westminster, when a leading politician admitted he was “shocked” that he had been lied to by another, but less leading, politician who had once been a quite leading politician before having been forced to quit over questions of honesty a few times. That politicians lie … Continue reading ‘Shocked’
BY PAUL T HORGAN 2am, 2 February, 2026, London: Buckingham Palace announced today that, in the light of recent revelations discovered in the Epstein Files released by the US Department of Justice, the Prince of Darkness would have his title revoked. Peter Dark-Ness, as he will now be called, was found to have continued his association with the untimely deceased millionaire paedophile after said person … Continue reading Prince of Darkness Stripped of Title
BY PAUL T HORGAN Well, it was all over before it started. The accelerated timetable for Labour to select a candidate meant that less than a week after offensive Whatsappist Andrew Gwynne decided he had to stand down for mental health reasons as MP for Garton and Denton, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has been told not to give up the day-job that he liked … Continue reading Andy Burnham – What He Said, What He Meant
BY SEAN WALSH Starmer’s demise is like the final minute of the spin cycle: never ending. I suppose part of the fun in making political predictions is the post-hoc analysis of “why I was right when I said this would happen and it didn’t”. And knowing you can be serially wrong without any professional consequence. There’s quite a bit of this about at the moment, much of … Continue reading Sunk Cost Fallacy Territory
BY PAUL T HORGAN While the Conservative Party is vying with a lump of uranium to see how much of its mass can leave the main body – and doing rather better – this is a deflection from the big question: Sir Keir has failed as a Prime Minister, so when will he step down? The defection of Robert Jenrick has had a predictable outcome. … Continue reading Counting the Days
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN They strut through Portcullis House with the preening confidence of minor clerics in a newly-installed theocracy. The air, thick with the scent of over-brewed Fairtrade coffee and the damp wool of second-hand suits, hums with a whispered mantra: “Two terms, at least. Probably three. A realignment. A job for life.” Among them, a particular specimen – let us call him ‘Gavin’ (ex-BBC, never had … Continue reading The Quivering Delusions of Labour’s Eunuchs
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Voluntary Voting Surrendered New York and Threatens Us All One can almost hear the ghost of Theodore Roosevelt, that great Bull Moose of American vigour, spinning in his grave at Oyster Bay. The news from across the Atlantic is not merely disappointing; it is a dire portent, a flashing red light on the dashboard of Western civilisation. New York City—the towering testament … Continue reading The Perils of Voluntary Voting
BY FRANK HAVILAND I have a confession to make: I’m a misogynist. At least, I certainly hope I am in the eyes of those who pontificate on such things, and clearly have no idea what the word actually means. I know that women don’t have cocks; that they are distinct from men; and that they are unlikely to best men in almost any endeavour, unless the men … Continue reading The War on White, Working Class Boys
BY ALEX STORY As Goldfinger observed: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.” It is a good observational rule, not least to judge our political rulers by what they do rather than what they say. Early in October 2024, Keir Starmer removed the portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. Both were painted in the late 16th century, a … Continue reading Enemy Action
BY PAUL T HORGAN What no-one has commented on is the actual point in time that the question stopped being how Sir Keir would step down as Labour leader and therefore also as Prime Minister, but instead when. The fall of the Marxist Human Rights lawyer from the head of His Majesty’s Government now seems all but inevitable. There will be a tipping-point, largely predicted to … Continue reading Aprés Keir, Le Petit Deluge
BY JOHN MUSGRAVE The final act of growing up, psychiatrists tell us, is to take responsibility for yourself. Children who never grow up, including sociopaths and the intellectually enfeebled will always blame circumstances and events. Never do they accept that what has happened is down to them. It’s always someone else’s fault. Two examples prove this point. Look at the government and the BBC. Far … Continue reading Persons Responsible
BY ALEX STORY “You can’t negotiate with Leftards”. They “don’t care if they ruin your whole life”. They “will kill you”, said Javier Milei during a fiery exchange on a TV show three months before winning the Presidency of Argentina in December 2023. Argentina, the richest country in the world by the end of the 19th century, and top 10 throughout the 1920s, now ranks … Continue reading Zero Negotiation
BY ALEX STORY Rachel Reeves, our Chancellor, has much to ponder ahead of her autumn budget. Larry Summers, an economist, noted a few years ago that the country was “behaving like an emerging market”. He wasn’t talking about rape gangs, shoplifting, or burglaries, though he might have thought it. He was referring specifically to our financial situation. Professor Jagjit Chadha, from the National Institute of Economic and … Continue reading The Sighted Led by the Blind
