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Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is surreally dull
My experience of Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex and Muchness of Montecito, has I imagine been quite a common one.…
Assisted dying panel rejects Down’s Syndrome safeguard
The western world might be collapsing but here in Westminster it is business as usual. In one of parliament’s dusty…
JD Vance accused of ‘disrespect’ to British troops
As if transatlantic relations could not get any worse. Barely 72 hours after the Oval Office bust up, the Trump administration…
Britain is not prepared for car ramming terrorist attacks
At least two people have died and several injured after a car was driven down a busy shopping street yesterday…
Operation Midland’s guilty men were never held to account
On March 4, 2015, I sat in the bedroom of my home, an old farmhouse overlooking the rolling beauty of…
Tory MP: Trump is a ‘Russian asset’
Graham Stuart is perhaps not the best-known Tory backbencher, but the former energy minister has catapulted himself into the national…
Keir Starmer’s bridge to Trump is crumbling
So it turns out he wasn’t bluffing after all. Six weeks after taking office, Donald Trump has made two big…
Nigel Farage will regret his anti-Zelensky comments
‘I just thought Reform cared about national borders and sovereignty’. So sighed the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer at the end of…
Netflix’s ‘With Love, Meghan’ is Brand Sussex’s final hope
So here it is, the undistinguished thing, at last. I had hopes that, after its postponement because of the Californian…
What would George Orwell make of the assisted dying debate?
George Orwell would have plenty to say about the language used in the assisted dying debate. As Orwell wrote in his…
The Trump-Zelensky clash was the most awkward TV in decades
The visits of Keir Starmer and president Zelensky to the Oval Office last week were both agonising to behold, in…
Is Macron a ‘danger for peace’ in Ukraine?
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are in competition to be the de facto leader of the European response to the…
Why should Zelensky be grateful to Trump?
A consensus seems to be forming, in certain quarters, that the debacle at the White House meeting on Friday –…
The trouble with ‘gentle parenting’
What type of parent are you? Buried beneath a litany of books detailing how to raise children ‘the right way,’…
‘I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive’: an interview with President Trump
From the moment you enter Donald J. Trump’s Oval Office, you are surrounded, not by staff or Secret Service, but…
Trump announces 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico
‘He was bad on trade, very bad on trade,’ said Donald Trump ‘with due respect’ to Ronald Reagan in a…
Melania Trump takes on revenge porn and deepfakes
First Lady Melania Trump held a roundtable on Capitol Hill Monday with victims of revenge porn, deepfakes and sextortion in…
Peter Mandelson has become a liability
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Less than a month after presenting his credentials to President Trump, His Britannic…
‘Struggling’ Rayner gets her third aide
When you’ve got a majority of 167, how do you keep control? The answer, it seems, is jobs for the…
Against suit shaming
Most of the people in my feed spent their weekend talking about how ashamed they are of their country. That’s…
Starmer: Zelensky is a ‘hero’
Keir Starmer was careful in his Commons statement about Ukraine to distance himself from what happened in the Oval Office…
Angela Rayner is exercising her ‘right to switch off’ Britain’s growth
It was reported over the weekend that the government has dropped ‘the right to switch off’ from its Employment Rights…
‘Europe plus’ won’t save Ukraine
Days after the disastrous White House showdown between Volodymir Zelensky and Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer has done an undoubtedly…
Priti Patel attacks Nigel Farage over Zelensky comments
During the early days of the Gaza crisis, there was an unofficial refrain doing the rounds in the Foreign Office:…
Lee Anderson attacks ‘pathetic’ Ben Habib
There’s a drama a day in Westminster. Today’s bust-up is between Reform MP Lee Anderson and the party’s former deputy leader Ben…
