After the Continental now looking at the island-elections

Parliamentary elections are over in the Netherlands and Belgium. In the European Union yesterday, the people also chose who should be in charge. Last week was the week the election campaign in Great Britain really took off thanks to an explosive television debate, a highly unusual prime ministerial apology – and the return of Nigel

What attracted attention in the second half of April 2024

April 16 2024 Spire of Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange collapses as building burns Moment spire collapses CREDIT: DR Nyheder A major fire broke out at Copenhagen’s old stock exchange on Tuesday morning, collapsing the twirled spire that was once an integral part of the Danish capital’s skyline. Click here to see more footage of the

Further essential reads for the first half of February 2024

Why 2024 could be the year the Amazon gets the help it needs For decades, the world’s rainforests have been cleared at a relentless pace, mostly destroyed by humans for agriculture. It is a familiar tale accompanied by images of orangutans confronting loggers and cattle ranchers expanding further into the Earth’s most biodiverse places. But

Frontpage headings for the forth week of February 2024

Monday February 19 2024 Grant Shapps: Woke culture is rife in the Army The Army’s time and resources are being “squandered to promote a political agenda”, the Defence Secretary has said, as he held crisis talks with military chiefs over plans to relax security checks to increase diversity. The move came as my colleague Steven

In the news the Second week of December 2023

Looking at the news of the second week of December 2023

Reforms UK Labour proposes are current Tory policy

In the editorial of the Daily Star of Monday 17 July 2023 you could read: It’s all very well to talk of “reform” of public services, but the reforms Labour proposes — in the NHS, for example — are current Tory policy, that is increased reliance on the private sector to carry out NHS work,

Second weekend of 2023 June: In the News

The Tories claimed that Labour’s main economic policy was “in tatters”, after the party’s shadow chancellor scrapped its flagship plan to spend £28 billion a year on green investment. Friday June 9 Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list published Boris Johnson’s long-awaited resignation honours list has been released – find out who received peerages here. Meanwhile,

The mood music around Labour is changing

Afternoon, The mood music around Labour is changing as the party gets ready for Government. Already this morning, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has scrapped Labour’s flagship plan to spend £28billion a year on new green jobs and technology. The pledge to spend £28billion a year for each of the five years of the next Parliament

The Telegraph Frontpage for Wednesday 2023 June 07

A “new low” for Putin got the main issue for today..

Christopher ‘Chopper’ Hope Monday June 05, 2023 reflection

Afternoon, “I said I would stop the boats and I meant it,” Rishi Sunak said on Monday on a visit to Kent where he delivered an update on his pledge to ‘stop the boats’ at a press conference in Dover. Channel crossings “are now down 20 per cent compared to last year”, with numbers from