James Ball
06 June 2025
The exit that lays bare Reform’s fatal flaws
Zia Yusuf’s resignation deepens concerns over Islamophobia and Farage’s obsessive grip
Read the full article05 June 2025
Helen Lewis: ‘Is Musk a genius? Look at his tweets’
Lewis’s new book, The Genius Myth, skewers rebel innovators who come to believe they can do no wrong. Remind you of anyone?
Read the full article04 June 2025
The chancellor has the worst job in government
Rachel Reeves’s fear of tackling the big issues means she is repeating the mistakes of the past, and summoning up memories of Tory austerity
Read the full article31 May 2025
Donald Trump’s digital landgrab
His attempt to grab control of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat of all
Read the full article28 May 2025
If universities sink, then so will Starmer
Some Labour figures believe Britain has too many unis. But if they start failing, local economies – and Starmer’s re-election prospects – will go with them
Read the full article27 May 2025
Why is Kemi Badenoch so bad at politics?
The Tory leader has put her foot in it again by peddling one of Putin’s talking points
Read the full article21 May 2025
The ‘secret plan’ to dim the sun
Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer. And the craziest thing is… they’re half right
Read the full article20 May 2025
It’s taken a Remainer to fix the Brexiteers’ mess
Keir Starmer’s pragmatic deal is nowhere near as good as rejoining - but it is good news for British companies, consumers and tourists
Read the full article14 May 2025
The complete unknown who could wreck Labour
Morgan McSweeney is the most influential invisible man in British politics. Is he to blame for Labour’s rightward turn and tanking opinion poll numbers?
Read the full article09 May 2025
The ‘Brexit benefit’ trade deal shows we’re weaker out of the EU
Keir Starmer has done the best he could at a relatively low cost, knowing Britain lacks the backing to fully stand up to Trump
Read the full article07 May 2025
This shameful dogwhistling over the India trade deal
Robert Jenrick has disgraced himself with an attempt to outdo Nigel Farage
Read the full article07 May 2025
Labour’s lunacy and asylum policy
Taking migrants out of hotels into private rented housing is another socially conservative move destined to blow up in the government’s face
Read the full article05 May 2025
Labour’s right-wing are obsessed with culture wars
Transfixed by the culture wars, the government’s immigration policy is being driven by Labour’s right wing – it’s going to blow up in their faces
Read the full article02 May 2025
Labour’s Reform copycat act has backfired
Following Farage on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster
Read the full article30 April 2025
Goodbye Mr Globalism
Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted
Read the full article29 April 2025
Should Labour copy Carney’s Trump strategy?
Despite the Canadian PM’s stunning win, it does not follow that being tough with the US will be good for Starmer or Britain
Read the full article23 April 2025
Facebook’s free speech battle
The oversight board Mark Zuckerberg set up has criticised him, and ruled that anti-Muslim content should be removed. Will he now silence them?
Read the full article18 April 2025
MAGA are the real enemies of free speech
Judge Trump and Vance by their assaults on those they disagree with, not First Amendment babble
Read the full article17 April 2025
Douglas Murray: shallow book, narrow mind
Reducing the complex history of Israel and Palestine to a battle of good vs evil is wilfully misleading. No wonder Trump has endorsed it
Read the full article14 April 2025
Keir Starmer: the global right’s new menace
He’s the most boring prime minister we’ve had in decades – so why does the US media seem to hate Keir Starmer so much?
Read the full article09 April 2025
Everyone hates Elon
The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains
Read the full article08 April 2025
Was Trump’s market carnage the plan all along?
Global finance's hopes that the White House would drop tariffs led to them jumping on a piece of fake news
Read the full article04 April 2025
Were Trump’s idiotic tariffs really generated by AI?
No complex calculations have gone into these import taxes - just reckless back-of-an-envelope stuff
Read the full article02 April 2025
Why do we all feel so much poorer?
Wages may be showing signs of improvement, but on its own that won’t solve the problem
Read the full article02 April 2025
Why Big Tech has never been weaker
The US giants have become sprawling conglomerates, precisely the kind of fat, complacent companies they once set out to disrupt
Read the full article27 March 2025
Is this really Labour’s vision?
Rachel Reeves seems happy to let 50,000 children live in poverty in order to make a spreadsheet add up on a Wednesday afternoon
Read the full article26 March 2025
We’re not ready for the next pandemic
Trump, foreign aid cuts and anti-vax hysteria have set the world back. We are less prepared than we were in 2020
Read the full article25 March 2025
Trump is about to blow up the spring statement
An April 2 tariff bombshell could make much of what Rachel Reeves says irrelevant
Read the full article20 March 2025
How Labour conservatively cut welfare
Rushed welfare cuts backed up with dodgy statistics is a shoddy - and all too familiar - way to run the UK
Read the full article18 March 2025
The real crisis in young men
Influencers stroke egos, fuel dangerous fantasies and enrich themselves by telling young males they are being victimised by a woke society
Read the full article14 March 2025
The book Zuckerberg wants to kill
If you thought Facebook was meant to be all about free speech nowadays, think again
Read the full article12 March 2025
Elon Musk is in freefall
When it comes to billionaires, there’s only one reliable way to keep score – and by that measure, there’s no doubt Musk is losing badly
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