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How Labour could lose

2 December 2023 9:00 am

What’s in a name?

25 November 2023 9:00 am

The Establishment wins again

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Hope might be the only strategy Sunak has left

11 November 2023 9:00 am

The first King’s Speech for more than 70 years was a festival of the expected: the royal reading of a…

Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…

Are you a creative or a destructive?

11 November 2023 9:00 am

There is a stage direction in The Glass Menagerie in which Tennessee Williams describes a tune that will recur through…

Starmer’s foreign policy problem is only just beginning

4 November 2023 9:00 am

This could have been the week that Keir Starmer buckled under pressure from his party and called for a ceasefire…

Is this where world war three starts?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

  Daugavpils   You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…

When righteous anger goes wrong

4 November 2023 9:00 am

From abroad I’ve returned to a country where, in language to which the word ‘shrill’ hardly does justice, fellow British…

It’s time to cut our ties with Qatar

4 November 2023 9:00 am

A friend of mine was recently doing business with the Qataris. Nothing strange there: a lot of people have in…

What did Hamas think was going to happen?

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Much misfortune the woebegone couldn’t have seen coming: a raging fire in the house next door that spreads to yours.…

The Tory vote squeeze

28 October 2023 9:00 am

When the cabinet gathered on Tuesday morning, the meeting started as a sombre affair. Just days before, the Conservatives had…

What Hamas promised to its electorate

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Things you do not hear very often, number one: a pro-Palestinian protestor denouncing Hamas for the barbarity of its incursion…

Rishi’s smoking ban inspired me to light a cigarette

28 October 2023 9:00 am

What has Rishi Sunak’s government achieved in its first year? The highlights include a renegotiated Brexit policy and setting more…

Does the Met know what jihad means?

28 October 2023 9:00 am

Ever since the atrocities in Israel more than two weeks ago, I have had one main thought. Yes, Israel has…