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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
The British pub was once a place where people could speak frankly about any subject under the sun, from the idiocies of the government of the day to the defects of certain members of the Royal Family to the odd habits of the new vicar. A pub was the one place, outside the home, where we felt free to speak our minds and, if necessary, occasionally blow our top in the company of friends and acquaintances.
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Sir Keir Starmer rightly declares that ‘the world as we knew it has gone’. But does he really mean what he says – or is he a lawyer who has merely mastered a brief? For it is wrong-headed to suppose that the advent of Donald Trump in itself constitutes the seismic change the PM invokes. Trump is a catalyst, whose reckless policies highlight dangers that already existed, and tell us that we are more on our own than we had assumed. One danger we already knew about is Russia.
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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Labour must kick the Chinese out of critical UK national infrastructure, campaigners have urged. The fiasco at British Steel prompted MPs, peers and experts to insist last night that it is time for ministers to get tough to stop another crisis. The Government was forced to take direct control of the business after concerns that Jingye, its Chinese owners, would close down the blast furnaces at the Scunthorpe plant. They are the last functioning furnaces in the country.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Most people have probably barely heard of the Office for Budget Responsibility, known as the OBR. They are therefore unaware that the unaccountable super quango has become one of the great powers in the land. They may well also not realise that when it comes to forecasting – supposedly its most important function – the OBR is about as dependable as an inebriated palm reader at a rowdy village fete.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Sir Keir Starmer’s great ploy has failed. Britain has not been exempted from the destructive tariffs unveiled yesterday by President Trump in the White House. All of our Prime Minister’s grovelling and sucking up has come to nothing. As recently as last week, No 10 was suggesting that this country might obtain its own favoured deal. This evidently slipped Trump’s mind.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
All governments are dishonest. But I don’t believe there have been any in my lifetime so consistently mendacious as this one – and I don’t exclude Tony Blair’s. Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement was a brazen inversion of the truth. The Chancellor has put growth at the centre of Labour policy. Yet she had to reveal that the Office for Budget Responsibility reckons the economy will grow by a meagre 1 per cent this year – half what it forecast as recently as last October.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Left-wingers like to give the impression that they are more principled and warm-hearted than their grubby brethren on the Right. Some of them, of course, are thoroughly decent people who do their best to live up to their ideals. But not all. There are ideologues on the Left who believe that the end justifies the means and that cherished values should be trashed. Step forward Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband. He oozes virtue – or, to some eyes, sanctimony.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
The last time the big powers carved up Eastern Europe was at Yalta in February 1945. Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to Joseph Stalin's demand that Eastern European nations bordering Russia should be subject to the influence of the Soviet regime. In fact, the two great Western leaders had little alternative because Russian troops had just driven the Germans out of Poland, and controlled virtually the entire country.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
Has someone been slipping a magic potion into Sir Keir Starmer’s tea? Or has his mind been turned by too much fraternising with Donald Trump? On Monday evening he delivered a remarkable speech to Labour MPs about welfare that would have been considered provocative if it had fallen from the lips of a Tory prime minister. He told them that the benefits system is ‘unsustainable, indefensible and unfair’.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Stephen Glover
With one bound he was free! That is what Sir Keir Starmer's admirers are saying about his sudden transformation into a globe-trotting international statesman. It is true that the Prime Minister appears to be succeeding better in this role than many thought possible, though he hasn't achieved anything yet. He looks the part. He is fluent and confident and on top of his brief, as a good lawyer should be. President Donald Trump likes him. So does French leader Emmanuel Macron.
