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Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus
This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10…
Are America’s women heading for the exit?
Life is apparently so disagreeable in Donald Trump’s America that 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 44 want…
John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet
John Lewis’s new ‘heirloom splendour’ Christmas decorations range features baubles that mimic a miniature vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, TV –…
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
‘Tom Stoppard is dead.’ For anyone who cares for the theatre, the English language, and especially for those of us…
Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog
Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history. This week Dublin City Council voted to change the name of Herzog Park…
Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a…
The ‘Your Party’ conference is a mess
It used to be said that the old Liberal party had so few MPs that they could fit in the…
Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah
The killing of Lebanese Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tababtabai by Israel this week reflects how much the balance of…
Meet the e-girls selling European decline to America
Earlier this year, a striking 28-year-old woman, dressed head to toe in a vivid shade of crimson, stepped up to…
Why DC loves to hate Partiful
If you’re under 50, you may have noticed that Partiful has quietly annexed the American social calendar over the past…
Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe
The late Claude Lanzmann, director of the monumental Shoah – the nine-and-a-half hour documentary about the Holocaust, released in 1985…
We’ll miss juries when they’re gone
At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge…
The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous…
There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice
David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder,…
Why the BBC keeps on blundering
The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it…
How damaging could the Ukraine corruption scandal be for Zelensky?
Andriy Yermak, the cryptic aide who shadowed Volodymyr Zelensky through every phase of the war, resigned Friday after anti-corruption investigators…
Rachel Reeves’s Budget was based on fiction
I think we will look back on this week as one of the most pivotal of this government. It was…
Yes, John Swinney is a head of government
This week Catherine Connolly, the newly elected President of Ireland, welcomed John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland, to the Áras…
Are J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio heading for a clash?
Thanksgiving weekend ends on Sunday, and still there’s no peace in Ukraine. Donald Trump’s latest attempt to end the war…
The war is far from over for Vladimir Putin
‘When the Ukrainian troops leave the territories they occupy, then the hostilities will cease,’ declared Vladimir Putin during his state…
France finally agrees to intercept Channel migrant boats – but there’s a catch
After months of pressure from Britain, France has agreed to begin intercepting small boats in the Channel. The move comes…
Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?
Yesterday’s release of immigration figures by the ONS didn’t make for particularly pleasant reading. While net migration had fallen to…
Can Zelensky surrender?
Kyiv The urge to run from danger is only human. It was palpable when air raid sirens sounded as I…
This is Hong Kong’s Grenfell
Hong Kong is reeling from the tragedy of a devastating fire which ripped through seven 30-storey apartment blocks in a…
Starmer faces Labour rebellion over employment U-turn
Another day, another drama. On Thursday afternoon, it emerged that Sir Keir Starmer’s government were rolling back their commitment to…
