Letters: Where to find Britain’s best dripping
Open arms Sir: The latest magazine (29 March) has two references to American military capabilities, from Rod Liddle and Francis…
Letters: The futility of net zero
Not zero Sir: I was delighted to see your leading article about the impossibility of net zero (‘Carbon candour’, 22…
How many teenagers kill?
That ship has sailed The BBC children’s television programme Blue Peter will no longer be broadcast live. Why did it…
The underlying message of Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement
Rachel Reeves may not be the most mellifluous writer ever to inhabit 11 Downing Street. At the weekend, she informed…
Portrait of the week: Spring Statement, Heathrow fire and Prince Harry quits his charity
Home In the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, made further cuts to benefits (such as freezing…
Portrait of the week: Welfare war, gold prices soar and gang jailed for toilet heist
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, entertained 29 other national leaders online to seek a way of guaranteeing the…
Kemi’s stance on net zero is courageous – and correct
Kemi Badenoch secured the Conservative leadership on the basis that she would confront her party and the country with uncomfortable…
Letters: The romantic route to cheap flights
Blood on our hands Sir: Paul Wood asks if anyone will be punished for the bloodbath in Syria (‘Massacre of…
Portrait of the week: Spies in Norfolk, rats in Birmingham and Denmark ditches letter deliveries
Home Three Bulgarians were found guilty of spying for Russia as part of a cell that plotted to kidnap and…
The West must not look away from what’s happening in Syria
Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell has many talents. But his understanding of Middle Eastern politics leaves much to…
Letters: Wokery is a form of dictatorship
Democracy rules Sir: I share the sentiments of both Rod Liddle (‘Trump displays weakness, not strength’, 8 March) and Douglas…
Letters: Leave our soldiers alone
Military farce Sir: Your leading article (‘The age of realism’, 1 March) argues that the government must invest in the…
How many people live in leasehold properties?
Back to the palace Donald Trump was invited for what will be his second state visit to the UK. Who…
Portrait of the week: Zelensky at Sandringham, rail fare rise and Duchess of Sussex’s Chinese takeaways
Home After the humiliation of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Washington, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, quickly convened…
Trump has shifted the world in Putin’s favour
The verbal pummelling of Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House last week was an ugly moment of bitter truth. We…
Keir Starmer’s welcome embrace of realism
Sixty-five years ago, a British Prime Minister acknowledged that a new world order was coming to pass and that it…
Portrait of the week: Foreign aid cut, Pope in hospital and King pulls a pint
Home Before flying to Washington, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘We have to be ready to play our…
Letters: American support to Europe has come at a cost
Rules Britannia Sir: Your rules for national survival in the realist world which we are now entering (‘Get real’, 22…
