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Zack Polanski’s humiliating breast hypnosis climbdown
To BBC Question Time, where new leader of the Greens Zack Polanski spent much of the evening sparring with Reform…
How Rachel Reeves can escape the doom loop
Rachel Reeves is trapped in an economic ‘doom loop’: high debt, low growth and higher debt again. But, as pessimists’…
Britain should be wary of BYD, China’s EV powerhouse
From Thailand to Brazil, a surge of imports from Chinese electric vehicle (EV) producer BYD has the familiar pattern of…
Can the NHS’s anti-Semitism problem be fixed?
The NHS has an anti-Semitism problem, and Wes Streeting wants to fix it. This week he announced plans to ‘make…
What will the Israel haters do now?
Normal people are cheering the prospect of peace in Gaza. Some might even raise a glass to Donald Trump for…
Corbyn’s Your Party is no joke
Over the past few weeks, many of us have watched with evident schadenfreude as Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah…
State school kids will pay for Labour’s International Baccalaureate crackdown
It appears that Labour is determined to ensure that choice in education is only for those who can afford it.…
Give the Nobel to Jared
On a season eight episode of The Simpsons, newscaster Kent Brockman interviews a man who’s woken up from a 23-year-long…
Life in Chicago with ICE and the National Guard
Every day, Chicagoans outside the immediate areas where federal forces are deploying pick up fragments of what feels like an…
Starmer: ‘no ministers’ involved in China case collapse
To India, where Keir Starmer has met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the UK-India trade deal and learn…
What’s wrong with ‘over-testing’ for prostate cancer?
According to a recent study at Oxford, celebrity prostate cancer awareness campaigns have contributed to the over-testing of white, wealthy…
Revealed: the Lib Dems’ plan for Tory defectors
Reform UK’s momentum is influencing other parties too. The Greens voted overwhelmingly to elect Zack Polanski last month, partly on…
Papà, you are wrong: Meloni is complicit in genocide
On Saturday, our Italy correspondent Nicholas Farrell asked readers for their help in persuading his Italian wife and six children…
Yousaf: it is ‘difficult’ to accept Trump as peacemaker
After two years of war, both Hamas and the Israeli government have agreed to a ceasefire deal brokered by US…
Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for his Hamas-Israel deal
In confirming the Israel-Hamas peace deal on Truth Social last night, Donald Trump referenced the seventh Beatitude from the Gospel…
Has Trump won peace – or a pause?
Donald Trump is on a roll. He not only wrangled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into submission, but also the terrorist…
Can Trump’s Gaza peace deal last?
There is no office more burdened by impossible choices than that of the Israeli prime minister. When Benjamin Netanyahu steps…
The inevitable downfall of Salt Bae
Nusret Gökçe, the Turkish social media sensation known as Salt Bae, has a restaurant empire built around the fan base…
Why you shouldn’t travel with your pets
Transport for London is refusing to take down a social media video which encourages owners to take their cats on…
What the China spy case farce says about Britain
Only in Britain could a spy trial collapse because no one in government could decide who the enemy was. The…
JK Rowling, Mia Khalifa and the delusion of the pro-Palestine mob
When an Islamist attack on a synagogue in my home city of Manchester left two dead, I responded by writing…
Scotland doesn’t need independence. It needs rid of the SNP
The SNP government in Edinburgh has published another white paper on the constitution, ‘A Fresh Start with Independence’. It’s a…
The Democrat who fantasized about killing a Republican
When it was revealed that Jay Jones, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general, joked in text messages about shooting a…
Has Katie Porter just tanked her chances of becoming California governor?
How do you give an interview so bad that it tanks your chances of winning an election by nearly 40…
Will Dwayne Johnson always be The Rock?
Over the past couple of weeks, two expensive, auteur-driven films with big stars have been released at the American box…
