Amid a surge in autism diagnoses, Arthur Mann found a friend's children detached and glued to their screens. Is it not more likely, he wonders, that we are suffering from an epidemic of disastrous middle-class parenting?
Rachel Reeves's disastrous mishandling of the thriving economy she inherited from the Tories means the UK is heading for a full-blown financial crash – and nothing can stop it now, says Matthew Lynn.
Ed Miliband is set to approve changes under which households in the South would pay more for electricity than those in Scotland and the North.
Hundreds of American companies have admitted to deliberately shunning white men for jobs due to DEI policies amid pressure to make workplaces more diverse, according to a survey.
Rachel Reeves cannot blame Donald Trump's trade war for the downgrade in the UK's growth prospects, the IMF has said, as it warns that Britain's inflation rate will be higher than in the US.
A Government climate adviser – a member of the Climate Change Committee, no less – who backed a tax on frequent flyers has racked up 40,000 air miles in a year by jetting to environmental conferences.
The nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime will be revealed in official league tables for the first time under plans due to be announced by the Government today.
Net Zero is the new Brexit, "where Parliament is so hopelessly out of touch with the country", Nigel Farage has said. Michael Deacon agrees: as people realise the true cost of eco-zealotry they are turning against it.
A council-funded sex education presentation shown in schools to teenagers as young as 14 has told them how to 'safely' choke their girlfriends during sex, saying it must always be done "with consent".
Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by Ministers including Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.
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