Starmer’s paralytic caution

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LIKE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS THESE days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in New

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch called environmentalists trying to stop the approval of new North Sea oil and gas fields ‘eco-nutters’ during Prime Minister’s Questions. Nigel Farage, leader o

Diane Abbott looks good in leopard print. Her jacket is patterned, and when I peer under the table, I am greeted by a pair of matching, leopard print trainers. We meet at the Cambridge Union, where sh

Contempt for democracy and the perversion of classical liberalism

T he Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern is an extremely capable human being. No, I’m not talking about the damehood or being the world’s youngest female head of government (Ardern was just 37 when she became