Boris Johnson has announced he will be standing down from parliament with immediate effect, after the Privileges Committee recommended a…

Finally the day has come. After countless reports over the contents of Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, the names are…

Nine months after Boris Johnson left Downing Street, his list of resignation honours has today finally been finally published. Here…

The Green mayor of Annecy, François Astorg, declared a fortnight ago that his town in the south-east of France was ‘a…

As a general matter, people who are indicted and punished for absconding with classified material tend to have done one…

Over almost 30 years in and around Westminster, I’ve noted some persistent and essential differences in the culture and mindset…

Is the government ready to start cutting taxes? After taking the burden to a post-war high, it seems ministers are…

St Mary Redcliffe church, in Bristol, has removed four stained-glass windows dedicated to the slave trader Edward Colston, he whose…

Sometimes it helps to have a banker as Prime Minister. They have plenty of faults. They can be dry, calculating,…

Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If that’s true, then what…

Donald Trump has chalked up a lot of firsts. First president to be a chum of Russian president Vladimir Putin.…

It is often said that Prince Harry is a ‘New Royal’. Emotionally literate, racially aware, eco-friendly (except when he’s flying…

Is the hazy stuff out there smoke billowing down from Québec, or hot air emitted from smoggy-brained politicians and journalists?…

Did you know that the Biden’s State Department is run by neocons? Or that Biden’s foreign policy is “bellicose, pugnacious…

Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden’s White House press conference started late, presumably to make a point that the two had…

What kind of man walks into a park on a summer’s day and randomly stabs and slashes at toddlers? That is…

So is Artificial intelligence (AI) to be a new engine of growth for the UK economy? That is Rishi Sunak’s hope. Ideally,…

Is it right that the government is going to let more people use weight-loss jabs on the NHS? Anti-obesity jabs,…

Another day, another episode in the ongoing Johnson-Sunak psychodrama. Following clashes over the Stormont brake and the Covid inquiry, Rishi…

The way in which some activists campaign for their cause makes it difficult to believe they really want the rest…

It’s fair to say that, after an unimpressive first day on the witness stand in his case against the Mirror…

What is it that India’s rulers find so objectionable about Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory that they’ve banned his…

Being a Brexiteer these days is like being Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo. Far too often…

If the LGBTQIA+ community has become a church for the new millennium, it is certainly attracting adherents across the world.…

The UK will narrowly avoid a formal recession this year. That’s the consensus that is emerging based on the current…