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What is the argument for keeping Keir Starmer?
For something that’s apparently only a ‘desperate political stunt’, Keir Starmer is taking the looming vote on whether to refer…
Is this what Lord Hermer really thinks about Britain?
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Keir Starmer’s premiership, they have. Last week the Telegraph exposed Lord Hermer’s continued…
What Harry and Meghan don’t get about royal visits
King Charles III’s state visit to Washington this week is the monarchy executing its core diplomatic function with precision and…
Why America still longs for monarchy
Even when he’s not visiting the United States, King Charles III might occasionally daydream about what his reign would be…
Soft left to ‘soft launch’ programme
It’s that time of year again. Spring is sprung and that means another bad set of local elections for an…
Gordon Ramsay and the tyranny of the restaurant service charge
The news that Gordon Ramsay – that most self-publicising of restaurateurs – has increased service charges at his Lucky Cat…
Politics is making us more unhealthy
Wes Streeting has said women have been treated like ‘second-class citizens whose voices don’t matter’. ‘The blunt reality is the…
Trump has a choice to make on Iran
President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip to Islamabad by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner over the weekend. The…
How we all become numb
These nights, sleep won’t take me. Thirty-one weeks pregnant, I’m too big to ever be comfortable. I toss; I turn;…
The allure of bullfighting
For the six days in April, the Maestranza ring in Seville is the centre of the bullfighting world. During one…
A social media ban for kids puts all our privacy at risk
This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks…
Oxford’s grand new building reveals the university’s misplaced priorities
The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford is well and truly open; there was an Open Day this weekend.…
The targeting of Trump tells its own tale
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” Donald Trump told reporters just hours after the shooting incident…
Britain has a Prime Minister problem
I wrote not all that long ago about this disconcerting situation we’re in where the only news story the Prime…
Net zero and the myth of German efficiency
Losing one energy source may be misfortune. Losing two is carelessness. And losing three is alarming if you’re the world’s…
Book publishers must fight back against AI
AI writing is God-awful. It appears intelligent at first glance, empty at second. It possesses the insufferable buoyancy of a…
Sunday shows round-up: shots fired at the White House correspondent’s dinner
Shots fired at White House correspondents’ dinner On Saturday night, shots were fired as an armed suspect charged security at…
The true cost of Chernobyl isn’t what you think
On the morning of the 28 April 1986, a worker at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden set off…
Why the ban on Palestine Action should be upheld
Next week, the Court of Appeal will hear Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s appeal against a High Court decision that the…
Immigration has turned the Netherlands into a tinderbox
To many Dutch voters, it came as no great surprise. This week, the Senate rejected a package of immigration laws…
London is becoming the home of climate litigation
The British high court is currently preparing to hear a case that will be conducted in accordance with Filipino law.…
What I heard inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The evening had started pleasantly enough. The most alarming thing about the party I was attending in the Hilton Hotel…
Shots fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Donald and Melania Trump entered the hall at 8:16 to cheers and applause. “Hail to the Chief” was followed by…
Trump believes Britain has betrayed the SAS
The Special Air Service (SAS), Special Boat Service (SBS) and other elements of UK Special Forces are held in the…
Ukraine won’t give up at the behest of Donald Trump
Four years after President Putin bragged that he would “demilitarize and denazify” Ukraine, it still stands free. Talking to locals, expats,…
