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Is Andy Burnham brave enough to stand up to China?
Since becoming prime minister just three weeks ago, Andy Burnham has focused on two key words: ‘hope’ and ‘justice’. And…
Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI
The Music Man, The Sting, Catch Me If You Can: movies and theater have a rich tradition of stories about imposters who…
We should ban foreigners from council houses
State House occupies a prized hilltop location in central Freetown. As befits the official home of the President and First…
There’s one rip-off Andy Burnham will never crack down on
Trying to pay my taxes via the HMRC website the other week, my bank thought it had sniffed a rat. “Could…
Should the police investigate Jason Arday?
The police role in the Jason Arday case so far deserves rather more scrutiny than it has received. Certainly, the…
Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t blocking peace in Gaza
As is so often the case when it comes to coverage of Israel and the Middle East, much of the…
Americans deserve burrito abundance
It’s a tough time to be in the business of burrito-making. The price of beef is on the rise. A…
Has the hounding of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor gone too far?
God, the avenging Furies had nothing on the Jeffrey Epstein industry when it comes to the pursuit of its quarry.…
Sociology is about much more than fools like Jason Arday
One of the unfortunate consequences of the Jason Arday debacle is that it has thrown the entire discipline of sociology…
How Paris made the Mosleys
Parisians have suffered through four scorching heatwaves this summer, but none compares to the deadly canicule of early August 2003 when temperatures…
Zack Polanski reveals his instant soup politics
Zack Polanski enjoyed a cosy conversation with Iain Dale at the Edinburgh festival yesterday. They sounded and acted like old…
How to fix Britain’s broken libel laws
In 1895, Winston Churchill, as a young officer cadet at Sandhurst aged 21, was falsely accused of having committed an…
Labour is the real party of the privileged elite
There’s nothing the ruling Labour political class likes more than propagating the Oxbridge class myth that the Conservative party is…
Whatever happened to Mickey, Liverpool’s smoking chimpanzee?
We haven’t lived. Yes, we’ve enjoyed the finest entertainment that Liverpool has to offer in our lifetimes – the Beatles,…
Meeting Abdul El-Sayed at the Detroit farmers market
The farmers market in Detroit is an unlikely crucible. Certainly Abdul El-Sayed, the freshly (and narrowly) minted Democratic Senate candidate…
Inside Pete Hegseth’s church
The second-floor meeting room on Pennsylvania Avenue is unassuming, but it’s filling up fast when I walk in on Sunday…
It’s open season on Nicola Sturgeon for the SNP
There have been mutterings in SNP ranks about Nicola Sturgeon’s failure to notice her former husband, Peter Murrell’s, embezzlement of…
The people of Thetford deserve empathy
Over the last four nights, unrest has broken out in the small Norfolk town of Thetford over the housing of…
Will the NHS get serious about prescribing weight loss drugs?
‘The weight is over,’ read an advert on the side of a bus outside my hospital this morning. The first…
Why ticket barriers won’t stop fare dodging on trains
If there’s one thing more annoying than sitting on a plane next to someone who has paid half what you did…
The wonder of Jaan Kaplinski
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Estonia – a potential flashpoint, we’re told, for a future Russian invasion –…
‘Serial bully’ Bercow back in Labour
Keir Starmer might be gone but Labour is still counting the cost of his legacy. Party membership figures published this…
Gun massacres are becoming all too regular in Thailand
At least seven people have been killed in a mass shooting at a school in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok. Details…
The Meaning of Michael Oatley
Michael Oatley, who has died aged 90, was one of the best-known MI6 field operators of the post-war era; his…
Is Scott Bessent America’s most important diplomat?
The most important American in the world right now might not be Donald Trump. It could be Scott Bessent, the…
