The International Monetary Fund has downgraded the UK’s growth forecast by the G7. The IMF’s latest global forecasts have downgraded the UK’s growth projection for this year by 0.5% to only 0.8%… Country 2026 Forecast Diff. from Jan 2026 UK 0.8 -0.5 Germany 0.8 -0.3 France 0.9 -0.1 Italy 0.5 -0.2 Japan 0.7 0.0 US 2.3…

Ministry of Defence staff racked up £16.3 million on taxpayer-funded procurement cards in March alone, with the spending including £133,000 in restaurants and bars and stays at The Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons. Wasn’t Starmer supposed to snip these cards in half? The transparency data, quietly published this week, reveals 5,975 transactions on MoD electronic…

Yes, the headline is real. Labour MP Samantha Niblett has declared 2026 the “summer of sex”, and is launching a sex education campaign with “sextech” entrepreneur Cindy Gallop to ‘talk more openly’ about carnal pleasures. To that end, Niblett is promising to bring sex toys into Parliament to ‘encourage open conversation’. Parliament alre...

German Politico owner Axel Springer’s £575 million purchase of the Telegraph has been approved by the government. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said in a written Commons statement: “In my quasi-judicial role I have assessed the proposed merger between Axel Springer and the Telegraph Media Group Holdings Ltd under the public interest media mergers regime and…

The Greens have showed up to Jenrick and Lee Anderson’s constituency fuel cut stunt in a diesel-guzzling car. No appetite for a short bike ride? Reform’s Anderson located the Green vehicle – a Volkswagen Passat TDI – parked surreptitiously far from the protest. Plus ca change… The stunt is as follows as per Reform: “The…