Trevor Kavanagh

FORGET the World Cup for a moment. Now is the time to hoist those Union Flags, wave the Cross of St George and cheer the greatest winning goal since VE Day. Tomorrow marks ten years since the Briti…

WHO the hell does Andy Burnham think he is? The so-called King of the North seems to believe he has a god-given right to waltz into Parliament, depose a recently elected PM and take over the countr…

NOW we know for sure. When Keir Starmer took over the machinery of government, he didn’t even know where to find the steering wheel. Ex-Downing Street guru Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s so-called “po…

I HAVE known and liked Nigel ­Farage for more than 20 years and I am not going to dance on his grave. But I fear that’s where his career is heading for the most consequential rightwing figure of ou…

It was possible for a fleeting moment yesterday to watch Sir Keir Starmer’s final and finest performance and think, “We’re going to miss you.” Gone was the peevish, puce-faced prima donna who has a…

At noon on Monday, King Charles III will hand the seals of office to a man nobody knows and nobody voted for as our new Prime Minister. So-called “Messiah” Andy Burnham may not be able to walk on w…

AH, the 1970s . . . the age of misty-eyed Hovis ads, bolshie shop stewards and the tyranny of the trade union closed shop. Times of wildcat strikes, tinned Spam suppers by candlelight and militant …

NEWSPAPER pundits are ten a penny. They come and they go, often without trace. The Sun’s Rod Liddle by contrast is simply irreplaceable. Rod’s tragic and untimely death at 66 robs us of a controver…

AFTER barely 35 days in Number Ten South, Andy Burnham is already eyeing up an early election, perhaps next Spring. The new PM wants to take advantage of a divided right to “change” Britain into a …

FEW people alive today can remember or imagine living as the brave citizens of Ukraine do every day under the shadow of sudden death. I’m told my first word as a toddler in 1944 was “doodlebug”, th…