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Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach net zero by 2045, five years earlier even than Britain’s…
Are we heading for a Sunak and Starmer podcast?
Theresa May always had a camp appeal. The clumsiness, the dancing, the incredible squareness. Mrs Thatcher never took that crown – she…
The best cooking podcasts
There comes a time in every home cook’s life when she is separated from her craft. This may be due…
World events are not going America’s way
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the world situation is grim for America. And it could actually get far worse. Why,…
Watch: GB News hosts clash over Russell Brand
It all kicked off on GB News this morning, following a joint Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into…
Who cares if this UCL academic ‘undermined’ Britain’s history?
There’s a long list of academics, some of whom are on the right, who have had their lives made difficult…
What Liz Truss’s big speech is really about
Liz Truss will take to the stage this morning for her first major intervention on the economy since leaving No.…
Russell Brand’s gags are coming back to haunt him
It has now officially all gone wrong for stand-up’s sex god. Ahead of Saturday night’s Channel 4 documentary about Russell…
The ‘naive cynicism’ of Russell Brand’s hasty defenders
I can’t imagine that Channel 4’s investigative slot Dispatches has had such an audience in living memory. On Saturday evening, many…
A driver’s case for 20mph limits
Speeding kills, we’re told. But in the right circumstances, exceeding the limit is no bad thing. Take motorways: few drivers…
Poland and Hungary could come to regret their Ukraine grain ban
The row over Ukrainian grain imports shows that politicians in Eastern Europe can be their own worst enemies. Five Eastern European…
The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what…
Does tennis have a doping problem?
Is it more remarkable that Romanian two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep took performance enhancing drugs, or that she was caught?…
Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare
The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s ‘iron rogues’
A year before Russia launched its brutal campaign to subjugate Ukraine, I visited a wintry Moscow. It was striking to…
Nimbys and Greens are teaming up to block German wind farms
Germany’s Robert Habeck might well be an excellent children’s book author but he is proving to be a dismal economy…
Confessions of a dog hater
Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban American Bully XLs is welcome news for us dog haters. It’s long been said that…
The toxic prison attitude that can cost inmates their lives
David Morgan, a 35 year-old man, told staff he’d taken an overdose. A nurse decided the man seemed drunk and…
Why some men are obsessed with the Roman Empire
Why do men think about the Roman Empire so much? That’s the subject of a new social media trend, where…
How an American racing driver and war in Mongolia helped to defeat Hitler
Of all the ‘practice’ wars that preceded the main events of the second world war, including the Spanish civil war…
Why Iran’s opposition failed
Today marks the anniversary of the brutal slaying of 22-year old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s so-called morality police…
The EU needs a coherent strategy on Russian sanctions
This week, the European Union opted to extend sanctions on some 1,800 Russian companies and individuals for another six months,…
Seven of the worst people in politics, according to Rory Stewart
If only more politicians were like Rory Stewart. That is pretty much the gist of his book Politics on the…
How museums lost their way
What’s the point of museums? According to researchers at the University of Leicester, museums should help children explore their gender…
Was Liz Truss wrong – or wronged?
A year ago, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng had just announced that they would hold a mini-Budget. It turned out…
