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Why don’t Harry and Meghan sue South Park?

22 February 2023 10:27 pm

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are hardly averse to taking matters to court. From their privacy tussles with the…

Does Kate Forbes support austerity?

22 February 2023 10:07 pm

Watching Kate Forbes this week struggle to reconcile her social conservatism with her ambition to be First Minister of Scotland…

Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader

22 February 2023 9:56 pm

It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader…

Kate Forbes isn’t homophobic for opposing same-sex marriage

22 February 2023 9:31 pm

Let me get this right. In Scotland’s political class it is de rigueur to believe that someone with a penis…

What do SNP members think of Kate Forbes’s views?

22 February 2023 5:00 pm

Kate Forbes’s religious views have sparked a backlash among her SNP colleagues. The party leadership contender’s announcement that she would…

Nicola Bulley and the shame of the TikTok ghouls

22 February 2023 5:00 pm

Ghoul – ‘a person morbidly interested in death or disaster’ – is such a descriptive word. There are a lot…

Victimhood and mudslinging now define American politics

22 February 2023 3:00 pm

The 2024 campaign has hardly started, but the air is already filled with noxious fumes, most of it from desperate…

Thunderdome 2024: here come the Republican hopefuls

22 February 2023 2:59 pm

Over Presidents Day weekend, Donald J. Trump, our most beloved former president — according to him anyway — posted the…

The contrast between Biden’s and Putin’s speeches

22 February 2023 7:54 am

The contrast between the two presidents could hardly be starker. One is dwelling in his own dream palace, indulging fantasies…

Jimmy Carter’s second act was better than his first

22 February 2023 3:03 am

Jimmy Carter is commonly depicted as one of America’s worst presidents. His four-year tenure is said to be a mishmash…

Damian Green’s rejection is a sign of things to come

22 February 2023 3:03 am

Much has been written about Damian Green’s failure on Saturday to be selected for the new Weald of Kent seat.…

Can progressives handle Christian politicians?

22 February 2023 3:00 am

The SNP leadership contest should not be about Kate Forbes’ religious faith but that issue has quickly come to dominate.…

Time is ticking for Sunak to resolve the Protocol

22 February 2023 2:53 am

Today was supposed to be the day when Rishi Sunak presented an agreement which resolved the issues over the Northern…

Would Biden punish Sunak for pulling out of the ECHR?

22 February 2023 1:41 am

The US government has warned British security officials that the ‘five eyes’ intelligence-sharing agreement may be at risk if the…

Did Putin just START a nuclear arms race?

22 February 2023 12:03 am

The war with Ukraine is here to stay – and Russians better get used to it. That was Vladimir Putin’s…

The £5.4 billion government surplus masks a larger economic issue

21 February 2023 11:54 pm

There have been celebrations this morning about a government surplus of £5.4 billion last month, and people are even talking…

The hounding of Silvio Berlusconi

21 February 2023 11:35 pm

Silvio Berlusconi has been acquitted of paying bribes worth €10 million (£8.9 million) to female guests at his notorious bunga…

Why did a judge praise the ‘admirable aims’ of Just Stop Oil activists?

21 February 2023 9:57 pm

When seven Just Stop Oil protesters were convicted of trespassing, the judge in the case had some warm words for…

How Pat Buchanan redefined the twenty-first century

21 February 2023 9:40 pm

Pat Buchanan recently ended his syndicated column, essentially completing his retirement from public life. Yet it’s hard to think of any…

Kate Forbes’s gay marriage blunder

21 February 2023 9:25 pm

Mistakenly, I assumed that politicians supporting Kate Forbes’ campaign to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP understood she…

Kate Forbes’ nightmare 24 hours

21 February 2023 8:23 pm

It seems that Kate Forbes’ stance on same-sex marriage hasn’t gone down too well with some of her more socially…

The misleading politicisation of Spanish bullfighting

21 February 2023 8:00 pm

Bullfighting is once again in the spotlight in Spain. This time, it’s the focus of a clash between the country’s…

JK Rowling will stand the test of time

21 February 2023 5:00 pm

I have a problem with magic. Even as a small child with a big imagination, I found magic very hard…

Putin’s obsession with Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’ could be his downfall

21 February 2023 4:50 pm

Ukrainian and Russian forces have been locked in either dogged stalemate or vicious urban fighting for towns and cities in…

Social-justice therapy: identity politics has infected psychiatry

21 February 2023 2:46 pm

In winter 2019, Leslie Elliott enrolled as a graduate student in Antioch University’s Mental Health Counseling program. At first, she found…