Mahmood hints she’d like to be prime minister

Shabana Mahmood, who on Tuesday made the case for digital IDs to be used to tackle benefit fraud, has admitted that she harbours ambitions to be prime minister. The home secretary also refused to rule out using Britain’s overseas territories, such...

Designs for life

This article is taken from the October 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Get five issues for just £25. The Englishman’s Room — that enchanting, unlikely, much-imitated yet never equalled classic of interior...

Community festival gets bigger and better

The Wash Common Community Festival proved to be more popular than ever when it returned to Falkland Cricket Club at the weekend. The fifth annual event took place on Saturday (September 27) and saw people enjoy an afternoon of live music, classic...

Autism and adultery: Inside new Thatcher book's sensational private life revelations

Just one of those statements would leave most people utterly gobsmacked, but two such claims and your gob isn’t just smacked, it’s positively dislocated. Gaudoin is a well-known writer. Her latest book is The Incidental Feminist: The truth about...

Brian Stewart’s ‘On the Ground’: The Power of Observation

On the Ground: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent By Brian Stewart Simon & Schuster, September 2025/352 pages Reviewed by Don Newman October 5, 2025 Almost from its inception, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was known for the exceptional...

Does Britain need a second Thatcher or must the Tories finally let go?

Margaret Thatcher, who would have turned 100 on October 13, continues to haunt the Conservative Party and British politics. Since she was forced from office in a party coup in 1990, no government, left or right, “has questioned the basis of the...

137 Delegates Unite at International Anti-Colonial Resistance Colloquium in Caracas

An international Anti-Colonial Resistance colloquium in Caracas gathers 137 delegates to confront colonialism, neocolonialism, and territorial dispossession by Western imperialism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Related:...

Housebuilder asks for its infrastructure contribution to be slashed by £1.6m

Ivan Morris Poxton Local Democracy Reporter 14:26, 26 Sep 2025 Falkland Way, Barton, part of a major housing development by Keigar Homes.(Image: Donna Clifford/Grimsby Live) Councillors have rejected a developer's attempt to reduce its local...

‘When I left, she’d blow kisses’ — the last artist to paint Margaret Thatcher

‘July, 2007. ‘Oh, you must paint Denis!’ Baroness Thatcher enthused at the beginning of our first sitting, as we settled next to each other on a chintzy, overstuffed sofa. Her lady-in-waiting gently clutched her hand. ‘Remember, Lady T — Denis...

UK minister makes whirlwind inaugural trip to Bermuda

Created: Sep 26, 2025 03:24 PM Andrew Murdoch, the Governor, right, joins David Burt, the Premier, with Stephen Doughty, the UK Minister of State for the Overseas Territories; Kim Wilkerson, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice; and Owen...

Iconic and unusual things that carry the iconic Plymouth name

Many people would already be aware that several towns and cities bear the name of Plymouth outside of the United Kingdom including places in the United States, New Zealand and the Caribbean. Plymouth has been a vital port city for centuries and...

Feeling Blue: Lord Glasman on Why He Backs Shabana Mahmood Over Nigel Farage

The ‘Blue Labour’ founder, credited with pushing the party to the right, singled out Keir Starmer’s “tough” new Home Secretary for praise 3 October 2025 Shabana Mahmood, newly appointed Home Secretary, speaks on the mainstage in the conference...

‘The victory Britain forgot’ – late Milford man sheds light on the Berlin Airlift in new podcast

IT WAS the victory that Britain forgot. That was the verdict of Sir John Curtiss who took part in The Berlin Airlift - one of the most critical standoffs in military history. After the Second World War the Soviets attempted to take Berlin by...

Inside Prince Andrew's secret relationship with ex-model Vicki Hodge

He was the rose-between-the-teeth conquering hero, the Falklands veteran with a cheeky smile and a golden future ahead of him. Now he lives in the shadows, his reputation in tatters, clinging to the last trappings of royalty. In the eyes of the...

Inside Prince Andrew's affair with ex-model and gangster's moll Vicki Hodge

He was the rose-between-the-teeth conquering hero, the Falklands veteran with a cheeky smile and a golden future ahead of him. Now he lives in the shadows, his reputation in tatters, clinging to the last trappings of royalty. In the eyes of the...

Spot the difference... don't claim SNP are like the rest

When it came to the PM’s speech, it was more of the same. But it was Sir Keir Starmer accusing the SNP, Reform UK and the Tories of wanting Britain to fail that I found offensive. Putting the SNP in the same sentence as Reform and the...

Do international alliances truly matter? Lessons from history's most enduring pacts

Do alliances/treaties between countries matter? Have they been invoked when required? Do they hold good in times of need? These are the questions that have been raised in the context of the Saudi-Pakistan Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement that...

Labour’s new candid and confrontational mood could be the thing that saves this government | Andy Beckett

Crises can liberate governments. Collapses in popularity, huge dilemmas about public spending, foreign policy emergencies, poll surges by opponents and the prospect of losing office: all can persuade even previously cautious administrations to...

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher Celebrated at the Danube Institute

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom, in office between 1979 and 1990, is soon approaching. She was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, England, United Kingdom, and passed away on 8 April...

Time For Netanyahu To Step Down -By IfeanyiChukwu Afuba

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel”s longest – serving prime minister, may not admit it, but he’s at his wit’s end on the Gaza situation. Fondly called Bibi, Netanyahu has seen it all in service of the Jewish State. His public career has spanned over 40...