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Britain’s war in Malaya

18 June 2023 7:53 pm

On 17 June 1948, seventy-five years ago this weekend, the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee declared war on the ethnic…

Is Isis preparing to exploit Europe’s open borders?

18 June 2023 5:00 pm

There is a growing sense of unease in France that a new wave of Islamist terrorism will soon break over…

Is the war on ultra-processed foods justified?

18 June 2023 4:00 pm

Ultra-processed food is back under the spotlight. ‘In the last decade, the evidence has been slowly growing that ultra-processed food…

Brits have a troubling approach to death

18 June 2023 3:30 pm

You never forget your first corpse, do you? Cold, visceral, mute, lying there immune from the world and its cares.…

Spotify exec: Harry and Meghan are ‘grifters’

17 June 2023 7:59 pm

It seems the Americans are belatedly waking up to the reality of the Sussexes. Bill Simmons, Spotify’s head of podcast innovation…

Keir Starmer has let slip the truth about his plan to abolish the Lords

17 June 2023 5:15 pm

Can a political leader keep getting exposed for conveying obvious untruths and yet be judged a fit person to occupy…

What’s behind Germany’s far-right surge?

17 June 2023 5:00 pm

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s far-right populist party, is enjoying a surge in support. A poll by broadcaster ARD this…

Emmanuel Macron must get over his Aukus sulk – before it’s too late

17 June 2023 4:30 pm

When the Aukus trilateral security pact was signed between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom in September 2021,…

The West could pay a heavy price for the Taliban’s war on drugs

17 June 2023 4:00 pm

The meth and heroin addicts were still gathering in their hundreds in a squalid encampment under the Pul-e-Sokhta bridge in…

When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?

17 June 2023 10:00 am

Who’s running the show on trans and gender? Elected ministers? Or an activist civil service? A publication put out by…

Why Boris’s critics might regret celebrating his downfall

17 June 2023 10:00 am

Imagine a Tory prime minister who gave the liberal left almost everything that it wanted. Higher migration? Sure, let’s treble…

Boris’s big column backfires

17 June 2023 4:30 am

Boris! Boris! Boris! For a week now, the cry has been incessant among our national media. Liberated from his parliamentary…

Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?

17 June 2023 3:04 am

Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash…

Biden’s age and Trump’s legal problems are inescapable

17 June 2023 1:38 am

For all the vagaries of presidential contests, we know two things about 2024: Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal…

Did France invent cricket?

16 June 2023 11:29 pm

As the First Ashes Test begins at Edgbaston it is fitting to recall England’s oldest cricket adversary: France. The Marylebone…

Full list: how will Tory MPs vote on the partygate report?

16 June 2023 11:08 pm

On Monday, MPs will get the chance to debate and vote on the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson. This…

Readers of Ulysses have a right to be smug

16 June 2023 10:55 pm

Happy Bloomsday everybody. Today, 16 June, is the day on which the events of James Joyce’s epic novel, Ulysses, is set…

Is France finally changing its tune on Brexit?

16 June 2023 8:59 pm

The waiters can sometimes be a little surly. That holiday villa you booked in the Loire may not always be…

Even Spotify has tired of Meghan and Harry’s repetitive schtick

16 June 2023 7:24 pm

As Oscar Wilde said of the death of Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not…

Boris gets a Mail column

16 June 2023 6:24 pm

It’s bad news for Rishi Sunak on the front page of the Daily Mail. No, not the splash about a…

I’m backing RFK Jr.

16 June 2023 6:00 pm

In the spring of 2021, I was barred from attending the remainder of my graduate school program at NYU for…

Why Biden 2024 is no sure bet

16 June 2023 6:10 am

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not an intimidating political opponent. Or at least not on the surface. Yes, he is…

A guide to Basel’s artistic delights

16 June 2023 3:57 am

Standing on the quayside beside the River Rhine, gazing at the happy teenagers swimming in the dark water down below,…

The troubling truth about Boris’s partygate inquisition

16 June 2023 1:28 am

There is something faintly ridiculous about the Privileges Committee’s report on partygate. Sixteen pages in, you encounter the following sentence:…

Boris Johnson took us for fools. Now we have proof

16 June 2023 12:41 am

No one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore. Not even partygate. Understandably so: we’ve all put hard work into…