It's not about revelling in her turmoil. It's about whether the picture of Reeves crying will be one of the defining images of Labour's time in office. The truth is: it's a photo the history books will use. And any newspaper aspiring to be a 'paper of record' can't ignore it.

There's been criticism of Kemi Badenoch for being too tough on a visibly upset Chancellor in the Commons. But if a display of emotion was allowed to neuter the Opposition, does anybody think there wouldn't come a day when a struggling minister wouldn't play the 'crying card'.

The left love ever more public spending. They don’t realise that Britain has the 4th highest absolute amount of govt debt in the world. £2.8 trillion. We pay the highest interest rates of any developed nation. We are broke.

It’s time our conversations about slavery were updated. While lefties insist Britain bears a burden for an historic slave trade, they ignore contemporary realities: that the enslavement of our fellow men and women remains endemic in parts of the Arab world telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

We have allowed a culture of permissive lawlessness to take hold in many of our once-great cities. Those who choose not to intervene (I include myself, coward that I am) often fail to foresee where this ends. Bikes and phones and shoplifting today. But tomorrow much, much worse.

Importing Gazans to Gateshead. What could possibly go wrong? My piece today for ⁦GB News⁩ gbnews.com/opinion/gaza-i…

Remembering my late-wife, Joanna Claire Brazier, the seventh anniversary of whose death falls today.

Is there more to coincidence than meets the eye? My piece in today’s Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/family/life/co…

The organs of reassurance are in full-swing to mark the 20th anniversary of 7/7. From the King to the BBC, much public talk of unity and healing between ‘communities’. But privately, millions of Britons are not so sanguine. They see a nation in the throes of dissolving itself.

The majority of our political class somehow contrived to commemorate 7/7 as if it were a crime without perpetrators. Like a freak weather event or act of random misfortune. Being unspecific is partly how we ended up ignoring rape gangs. Ignoring Islamism will not make it go away.

In Newcastle for the first time in years. A city in the process of rapid demographic change. It’s not unreasonable, xenophobic or backward-looking to ask: how has this happened so quickly; who authorised it; and where does it end?

Blair's expansion of universities has made Britain a world leader. In making it almost impossible for millions of young people to start a family. Student debt is a stunningly effective contraceptive. It's time to write-off the tuition loans of young graduates who have a child.

It’s time to cull universities: they are factories of indoctrination and life-limiting student debt. My piece today GB News gbnews.com/opinion/univer…

We live in times of such crashing cowardice, cant and hypocrisy, that satire has rarely been needed more. There is no better practitioner than Rod Liddle. Here he is in this week’s Spectator, musing on coverage of 7/7.

The failed assassination of Donald Trump was a year ago today. Flawed he may be. But I still can’t escape the sense that his survival felt like a kind of deliverance.

Those who do not want children must not be pressured or shamed into having them. But those who do want children must be seen for what they are; the incarnation of hope for the future, with all the financial encouragement that entails. The State can no longer be neutral on this.

It was a good run

A scheme resettling hundreds of Afghans in the UK could see 100,000 come. The British state has a poor record of rooting out those who come seeking clemency while secretly meaning us harm. Not just terror. By nationality, Afghans top too many crime tables telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…