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Australian election: Trump helps topple second conservative leader

4 May 2025 1:59 am

Tonight, Australia voted decisively for continuity. The Labor government of prime minister Anthony Albanese has not merely been re-elected. It…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr

3 May 2025 10:00 pm

In the matter of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his all-expenses-paid sojourn in El Salvador, there has been a goodly quota…

The strategic ascent of Kai Trump

3 May 2025 7:54 pm

In the gilded corridors of Trump Tower and the manicured greens of exclusive golf courses, a new Trump is quietly…

Badenoch is leading the Tories off a cliff

3 May 2025 7:38 pm

It’s always sad to discover that one of your favourite quotations was made up. After communism’s fall, Robert Conquest’s American…

The revenge of Prince Harry

3 May 2025 7:17 pm

It was always unlikely that Prince Harry was going to take his latest and perhaps most humiliating legal defeat with…

Reform’s next challenge is delivery

3 May 2025 6:30 pm

The Cholmondeley Arms is set just off the main road of the quaint, red-bricked market town of Frodsham. Not that…

Do Green voters know what they’ve done?

3 May 2025 4:39 pm

The Green party has done well at the local elections, making dozens of gains across England. But do those who…

Will Australia’s angry voters punish Labor at the polls?

3 May 2025 4:18 pm

Australia goes to the polls today, pitting the first-term Labor government of prime minister Anthony Albanese against the Liberal-National party…

Was this right-wing TV host joking about taking on Marine Le Pen?

3 May 2025 4:00 pm

A controversial and wildly popular right-wing television star says that he orchestrated a ‘prank’ that he was about to jump…

Are triads becoming more active in Britain?

3 May 2025 4:00 pm

The Chinese community in Britain has long been seen as peaceful and law-abiding. Yet beneath the surface, there is a…

What the Auschwitz memorial gets wrong

3 May 2025 3:30 pm

In 1982, to the shock of almost everyone who knew me, I began a two-year training programme designed to turn…

Ed Davey’s quiet victory

3 May 2025 11:04 am

There’s no doubt that Friday’s local election results belonged to Reform. Nigel Farage’s party has picked up hordes of councils,…

Watch: Prince Harry says he wants to ‘reconcile’ with the King

3 May 2025 6:39 am

Prince Harry has said he ‘would love a reconciliation’ with the Royals after losing a legal challenge over his security…

Is there any hope for the Tories?

3 May 2025 1:50 am

It was widely expected that Reform were going to do well in yesterday’s elections – but perhaps not this well. So far,…

When will Labour and the Tories wake up?

3 May 2025 1:14 am

What will it take for Labour and the Tories to realise how bad their situation is? Reform’s by-election victory in…

Is this Prince Harry’s most humiliating court defeat yet?

3 May 2025 1:07 am

Well, what did Prince Harry expect? The Duke of Sussex has been involved in plenty of hubristic and pointless things…

David Hogg’s reign of terror

3 May 2025 12:06 am

A lonely caravan, ambushed on the open frontier, circles the wagons. The settlers bring out their long rifles to fight…

Will Jeff Bezos steal Elon Musk’s electric crown with a $20,000 truck?

3 May 2025 12:01 am

Though it got somewhat lost in our daily swirl of World In Crisis, last week marked a potentially significant moment…

Labelling the AfD ‘extremists’ will backfire

2 May 2025 11:47 pm

By officially classing the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as ‘right-wing extremists’, the German establishment may have scored an own…

The AfD’s ‘extremist’ label is a long time coming

2 May 2025 10:39 pm

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been classified as ‘confirmed right-wing extremist’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service. Until…

Watch: Starmer admits Runcorn loss ‘disappointing’

2 May 2025 10:30 pm

It’s been an eventful day – and there are still many more local election results to go. After a long…

Will falling interest rates save Rachel Reeves?

2 May 2025 10:30 pm

There is not much that Chancellor Rachel Reeves can look forward to right now. The Labour party has just been…

Nigel Farage’s left-wing turn looks like a triumph

2 May 2025 9:59 pm

Nigel Farage declared earlier this year that ‘economics might be bigger than immigration for us at the next election’. Most…

The M&S hack proves the danger of the ‘internet of things’

2 May 2025 9:54 pm

A man from John Lewis came yesterday to measure up for some window blinds. When he started struggling with the…

The Labour left turns on Starmer

2 May 2025 9:50 pm

After defeat, comes the recriminations. The bulk of council seats are still yet to declare but already the blame game…