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Portrait of the week: Shoplifting surges, Trump eyes Gaza Strip and Norway’s government collapses

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, flew to Brussels for an EU summit, sought a ‘reset’ of relations and…

Britain could learn from Trump’s approach to foreign policy

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The Foreign Secretary describes his approach to diplomacy as ‘progressive realism’. One can legitimately ask what is progressive about a…

Letters: The army that Britain needs

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Common ground Sir: Katy Balls asks ‘Lawyer or leader?’ (Politics, 25 January), but it became fairly clear which Keir Starmer…

Where will you find the most shoplifters?

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Nigel Farage claimed he would put together the biggest political rally in British history to launch Reform UK’s local election…

Portrait of the week: DeepSeek, Duke of Sussex’s damages and an iceberg the size of Cornwall

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Home The government would invest 2.6 per cent of GDP a year to create growth, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of…

DeepSeek’s cheap information comes at a high price for the West

1 February 2025 9:00 am

This week, Chinese technology has shown the West the challenge it faces – ruthless, implacable and impossible to ignore. The…

Letters: What we lose when we lose our factories

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Chains of command Sir: Matthew Lynn is correct to emphasise the economic dangers of deindustrialisation (‘Not made in Britain’, 25…

2684: Romans 5

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Why won’t Keir Starmer use the word ‘terrorist’?

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Why does Keir Starmer find it so hard to use the word ‘terrorist’ when talking about a man who buys…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s inauguration, Israel-Hamas ceasefire and cardboard humans comfort lonely fish

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murder of three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed…

Which were the most destructive fires in history?

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Swing states Where would Canada and Greenland rank if they became US states? – Canada would be, by far, the…

The folly of Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal

18 January 2025 9:00 am

It would be natural to assume that sinking bond markets would be the government’s priority this week, as low UK…

Portrait of the week: Tulip Siddiq quits, Sturgeon splits from husband and Trump spared jail

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Tulip Siddiq resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, although she was found not to have broken the ministerial…

Letters: The dangers of the ADHD ‘industry’

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Nothing left Sir: Rod Liddle is right to ascribe the establishment’s desire to suppress the truth in relation to grooming…

Letters: In private schools, struggling children find the help they need

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Growing problem Sir: The first leading article of the year (‘Growing apart’, 4 January) points to the gap in economic…

Portrait of the week: grooming gangs, wildfires and a Littler victory

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Responding to a rejection by Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of calls for a government inquiry into historical child…

It’s time to fast-track our adoption process

11 January 2025 9:00 am

The debate surrounding the sexual exploitation of thousands of children over decades, which has re-ignited this week, should act as…