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Is it all over for Milei?
A landslide election defeat for Argentine President Javier Milei’s Libertad Avanza party has made money markets doubt whether he will…
Macron’s France is descending into chaos
As expected, the government of François Bayrou has lost its vote of confidence in the National Assembly. Three hundred and…
Shabana Mahmood sets out her stall
Shabana Mahmood wasn’t given long in her new gig before facing the media. She became Home Secretary on Friday afternoon,…
France has been plunged into crisis – again
Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government has collapsed after a bruising no-confidence vote in the French National Assembly. MPs rejected his…
Will cops wearing Arabic badges serve and protect all?
Last week, the Dearborn Heights Police Department revealed the nation’s first-ever officer uniform patch featuring Arabic script. It was designed…
Who will succeed Shigeru Ishiba?
Here we go again. In what appears now to be an annual event, the Japanese prime minister has resigned. In…
Reform MSP: We’ll never have a pro-indy candidate
As of late August, Nigel Farage’s Reform party now has representatives in local government, Westminster, the Welsh Senedd and the…
The Jerusalem massacre and the illusion of peace
You can tell a great deal about countries and people by how they react to a horrific act of terror.…
Scott Bessent, future UFC fighter?
Plans have begun on constructing the Octagon on the White House lawn for a UFC fight to commemorate what President…
Labour’s deputy leadership race could tear Starmer’s party apart
The rules have been fixed and the timetable agreed. So, who will be the key players in the race to…
More disruption for Starmer as strategist quits after two weeks
It’s all change in Sir Keir Starmer’s government. After his former deputy Angela Rayner resigned from both her government and…
Four years on the run: New Zealand’s fugitive dad shot dead by police
A fugitive father who vanished into the rugged bushlands of the Waikato region of New Zealand with his three children…
Bring on the driverless Tube
London’s entire underground tube system – apart from the Elizabeth Line – is being paralysed for almost a week by a…
The case for MAGA imperialism
Empire has always been part of the American tradition. We are a sequel state to the greatest empire in world…
Will Rayner take her £17k handout?
On Friday, Angela Rayner resigned as Deputy Prime Minister after a probe into her tax affairs by Sir Laurie Magnus,…
Who cares if there’s a blunder in Ian McEwan’s latest book?
Ian McEwan’s new novel What We Can Know isn’t even out yet, and already someone has spotted a goof. In…
For the good of France, Macron must go
This evening Emmanuel Macron will almost certainly be searching for his fifth prime minister since January last year. Francois Bayrou’s…
Prince Harry returns, but does Britain want him back?
“Success”, Winston Churchill was once reputed to have said, “is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss…
Why do so many Brits hate Jews?
If you’re a Brit who doesn’t hate Jews – a smaller number than you might think – then you may…
As Trump wooed Kim Jong Un, he secretly unleashed Navy SEALs
Think of the first Trump administration’s North Korea policy, and the bright lights, photo ops and eventual lack of deals…
Is Jacinda Ardern hiding from Covid scrutiny?
During the five years Jacinda Ardern led New Zealand, much was made of her ‘transparent’ style of touchy-feely leadership and…
Starmer’s reshuffle has Morgan McSweeney’s fingerprints all over it
After 48 hours, the final appointments have been made to complete the government’s reshuffle. A raft of rising stars from…
Camus comes to America
The 20th-century French writer Albert Camus remains a living author, a permanent contemporary, in a way that the far more…
Will Emily Thornberry be Starmer’s new deputy?
It is a plot line worthy of a Sopranos episode. A newly-elected Prime Minister, flushed with electoral success, triumphantly sacks…
Sunday shows round-up: Farage insists Reform really will stop the boats
At the Reform UK conference, Nigel Farage claimed that he would stop small boats crossings in two weeks if elected…
