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Artificial Intelligence is the crack cocaine of the digital age
The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards…
Is global warming behind Greece’s wildfires?
Summer wouldn’t be complete without hordes of disgruntled British tourists being evacuated from their hotels, flown home early or spending…
Minister calls in the banks after Farage account closed
It’s a month since the Farage Coutts row blew up and there’s no sign of it calming down any time…
Immigration and a government in a state of post-hypnotic suggestion
Hurrah! The government, it was reported yesterday, is working on getting some more migrants. To plug a million-strong post-Brexit labour shortage in…
Drones strike Moscow in fifth attack since May
For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming…
Targeting Odesa marks a new turn in the war
The world is waking up to pictures of fresh destruction in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, which has been…
Going soft on Net Zero could save Rishi Sunak
The Tory green brigade now tends to be heavily concentrated in the House of Lords, where Zac Goldsmith recently joined…
Could Ulez lead to Sadiq Khan’s downfall?
Emmanuel Macron has spoken of his fear of France’s ‘fragmentation’ and of the nation’s ‘division’ following the riots that reduced…
The truth about the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge
The ingloriously-named Bibby Stockholm has weighed anchor in Dorset’s Portland harbour to a storm of protest. The vessel is intended…
The once and future president?
Donald Trump is having a better year than Joe Biden, notwithstanding an indictment or two. Both men hold commanding leads…
Watch: Stonewall chair grilled on transgender issues
It’s been a difficult time for the gay rights charity Stonewall. Chief Executive Nancy Kelley is due to leave her…
Igor Girkin’s arrest was a long time coming
With the reported arrest on Friday of Igor Girkin (aka ‘Strelkov’ or ‘Igor the Terrible’) the career of one of…
Rage against the baseball machine
In a lifetime of attending perhaps a thousand professional baseball games, all but ten or so in the minor leagues…
Will Sunak and Starmer now ditch their green promises?
Where do the by-election results leave Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer? The Labour leader had been hoping for a victory…
Sadiq Khan should reconsider imposing Ulez on outer London
That the Conservatives retained the west London seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip, albeit by a whisker, has been put…
How Spain’s politics succumbed to radicalism
If Spain’s left-wing government loses tomorrow’s general election, thousands of people including many senior civil servants stand to lose their…
Falklanders won’t forgive the EU’s ‘Las Malvina’ blunder
This week, the European Union, in its infinite wisdom, made pretty much the only blunder which, in the eyes of Falkland Islanders, there…
Will Chuck Grassley’s Burisma bombshell finally get the Bidens fired?
A famous clip from recent history: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the…
The Japanese are over rice
It would be an insult to call rice the staple food of Japan. For centuries it has been so much…
The trouble with Keir Mather
Every time I cross paths – or swords – with a cranky student activist, I have the same thought: ‘Oh…
Starmer turns on Sadiq over Ulez
You just hate to see it. Less than 12 hours after the Uxbridge result and already the Labour blame game…
Labour’s Uxbridge chair quits and attacks Starmer
For all Keir Starmer’s eager spin, last night wasn’t the great Labour triumph it was supposed to be. While the…
Ulez isn’t the election gift Sunak wishes it was
Given everyone has won a prize in this round of by-elections, the three main party leaders have been feasting on…
Rishi Sunak is caught in a debt trap
Two by-election defeats have made it a miserable morning for the Tories, even if they did manage to cling on…
The Ulez rebellion has started
It was, to adapt the famous Sun headline from the 1992 general election, Ulez wot won it. The Conservatives’ narrow…
