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Will Rachel Reeves heed the warnings over the UK’s gloomy economic outlook?
Rachel Reeves has been warned again that the slim headroom against her ‘ironclad’ fiscal rule could be wiped out if…
Left-wing violence is being normalized
Something has changed in America’s psyche. Violence has become more acceptable. It’s not just that we’ve seen two attempted –…
Why everyone is talking about Bill Belichick
In early May, the 73-year-old former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick published The Art of Winning, an autobiography of…
Fact check: top policewoman’s grooming gangs claim
To BBC Newsnight, where Deputy Chief Constable Becky Riggs – the national policing lead on child protection and abuse investigations…
France’s border patrol is playing a losing game
In a 24-hour period at the weekend, 184 migrants were rescued in the English Channel by the French coastguard. The…
Net zero is a gift to Nigel Farage in Scotland
It wasn’t long ago that Nigel Farage seemed a hopeless sell in Scotland. In 2013, on his way to campaign…
Reform’s risky economic experiment
At last they have found it. Or, at least, they think they have. Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch have…
Why Hamas won’t accept Witkoff’s Gaza ceasefire offer
US Envoy Steve Witkoff finally received an answer to his latest proposal for a ceasefire and hostage exchange in Gaza…
Brace yourselves for more Quran-burning trials in Britain
You might well have felt slightly repelled if last February you had passed someone ineptly trying to set fire to…
Palm Beach is stuck in a gridlock
Palm Beach is never happier than when it’s making news – the more unexpected the better. The latest opportunity to…
Remembering Jackson C. Frank
Before venturing to the North Park Theatre in Buffalo to catch a one-night-only showing of Blues Run the Game: The…
Is everything political?
I first heard the slogan “Everything is political” from a left-wing reporter for Wyoming’s statewide newspaper in the mid-1980s, at…
I tried the world’s worst drink
I am standing in a sunny courtyard in the little town of Gijduvan, waiting for a drink. Just in case…
How I flouted a cardinal French gardening rule
“C’est ma faute,” I called up to the local old boys as they strolled past my potager, chuckling among themselves.…
The joy of preparing freezer jam
July, and the morning sun blazes over fields of pick-your-own strawberries. The black bears scope out the blueberry patches in…
The decadence of seafood towers
Whether or not it is your intention to see and be seen, you cannot avoid the latter when you order…
Wine highlights from a weekend shooting party
Do you know Charlotte Mulliner’s charming poem “Good Gnus”? It was transcribed by P.G. Wodehouse in his short story “Unpleasantness…
Why I’m ditching ‘authentic’ travel
I’ve always heard Americans describe the food in Rome as “authentic,” though maybe that’s only relative to our three square…
Strava is the last good form of social media
If a man runs through a forest but doesn’t post it on Strava, it didn’t happen. I won’t believe it,…
No one won the Hamilton by-election debate
‘How useful are TV debates anyway?’ a Labour figure scoffed when I asked why their candidate in the Hamilton by-election…
Jews in America are under attack
In Boulder, Colorado, eight elderly Jews were torched alive in a park. They wore red T-shirts bearing the names of…
Get your Pride month Kevin the Carrot, while stocks last
Please consider this a sort of public service announcement. I mention it because sadly, you may have been unaware of…
What was the point of the Strategic Defence Review?
This weekend has not been a masterclass in political communications by the government. Selected morsels of the Strategic Defence Review…
Doctor Who needs a break
Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like Doctor Who might not be returning to our screens again…
Hamit Coskun’s life will only get harder now
Hamit Coskun has been found guilty of a ‘religiously-motivated public order offence’, after he burnt a Quran in front of…
