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Jean-Luc Mélenchon assure qu’un blocage des prix des carburants n’entraînera pas de pénurie

“Une bêtise”, selon Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Selon lui, les entreprises pétrolières n’auront d’autres choix que de baisser le prix de leurs produits raffinés, “parce que la Chine n’en a pas besoin, parce que l’Inde n’en a pas…

Claim that migrants intercepted by rescue ships in the Channel automatically get refugee status misunderstands asylum rules

This isn’t correct. In order to receive refugee status, anyone arriving in the UK via small boat must apply for asylum and then have their claim be successful. Being picked up by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution…

Joshua Cheshire: Labour is making a meal of their war on fish and chips

He has written and spoken on issues of regulation, free speech, and dystopian fiction. As is often the case, the government’s latest episode in their war of fun is just them making a meal of everything. The policy in…

Teenagers to be offered new vocational GCSE subjects in school

The new subjects could include building and construction, business management and finance, and child development. Education Secretary Lucy Powell said there was "no question" that academic learning was at "the core of…

Gabriel Attal : “150 milliards d’économies, c’est une base”

Sans décliner l’ensemble de son plan d’économies, Gabriel Attal a évoqué ses principales pistes, dont une réforme des retraites, un serrage des dépenses sur la sphère sociale et sur les effectifs de l’administration…

Parthenon Marbles talks stall as Athens rejects loan proposal

Athens argues that they were removed illegally and wants them to be displayed alongside the rest of the Parthenon sculptures at a purpose-built museum in the Greek capital. A 1963 law currently bans the British Museum…

I watched Ed Davey’s speech. Here’s why it matters

Ed announced that the Liberal Democrats would raise the tax-free personal allowance to £15,000 and increase the higher rate threshold from £50,270 to £56,000. He said that would mean taking two million more people out of…

Space Wars: Satellites, Genocide, and Oxfordshire

Many of the more hysterical commentators appear to have listened to only part of what Miliband said. They may have missed his comments on the “shared national security interests we have with Israel, on which we will…

No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC

The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has ordered an urgent review by Border Security Command, calling the failure to intercept the two boats "not acceptable". But the Conservatives say Labour has lost control of…

Austen Morgan: The Government’s Conversion Therapies legislation is a flawed attempt to push a transgender agenda

His next book is: Bringing Boris Down: the politicisation of the civil service, forthcoming. Is woke dying?…not among the charity workers of the parliamentary labour party! And the evidence is: enthusiasm for trans…