The long Conservative leadership contest is at last in the final straight. On Saturday, we’ll find out whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick is going to shoulder the extraordinary challenge of rebuilding the party from one of its most shattering election defeats. While the contest has been running since August, it feels as though we’ve … Read more
When brothers Ron and Ryan Anderson were kids, they would often play “army” in the woods, which didn’t surprise their mother Maureen in the slightest. “Way back from there, they were destined to go to the army,” muses the 68-year-old at her home in Oromocto, N.B. After all, the Andersons are a military family. Maureen’s … Read more
Budget market reaction ‘very different’ from Liz Truss turmoil, minister insists The UK is in a “very different world” compared with the turmoil which followed Liz Truss’s economic plans, a minister has said as the government seeks to quell post-budget market jitters. The scale of extra borrowing in Rachel Reeves’s budget – around £32bn a … Read more
Wireless headphones have become the go-to choice for so many people, and it’s easy to see why. They offer the freedom to move without tangled cables holding you back, and modern Bluetooth connections are more reliable than ever. On top of that, many wireless headphones deliver higher-quality sound than you’d expect, with impressive features like … Read more
Ben Schofield/BBC The city’s Conservatives regularly meet for a curry Over the past 12 months, Peterborough’s Conservatives lost the leadership of the city’s council and saw a new Labour MP elected by just 118 votes. At their regular curry night, party members and councillors admitted it had been a tough time. Nationally, as the Tories … Read more
China hit American drone manufacturer Skydio with sanctions this month, potentially cutting the company’s supply chain and preventing it from supplying more drones to the Ukrainian military. “This is a clarifying moment for the drone industry. If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as … Read more
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate are dangling weed in front of young Americans in exchange for their votes, and their political allies in the porn industry are urging young men to stick with Harris. “I just think we have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to … Read more
Rachel Reeves is the third Labour chancellor of the exchequer be an MP in my home city. In earlier times, Hugh Gaitskell and Denis Healey both sat for Leeds seats too, as Reeves does today. Their budgets, like hers this week, were delivered in challenging, though extremely different, economic times. Both these Labour predecessors, however, … Read more
As the Biden-Harris administration’s term ends, its four-year focus on social reforms over combat readiness has left America’s armed forces woke, weak, and dangerously unprepared — with historically low military recruitment numbers, lowered standards, and compromised morale at a time of rising global threats. The administration’s military policies prioritizing social agendas over readiness have resulted … Read more
An establishment amnesty for the roughly 25 million illegal migrants in the United States would “end democracy,” and convert the U.S. into a one-party state like California, JD Vance, Donald Trump’s hand-picked running mate, told host Joe Rogan on Thursday. “I’m a Reagan guy, right?” Vance said in his three-hour interview with Joe Rogan, adding: I’m a conservative … Read more