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Will Gerry Adams let truth prevail?
Picture Gerry Adams in a dimly lit courtroom, one hand raised in statesmanlike denial, the other twitching like Dr. Strangelove’s…
Who cares if Britain’s Eurovision entry has German lyrics?
What with the prospect of further resets with the European Union, and with British culture seemingly in a constant battle…
MAHA, stay in your lane
MAHA is not a foreign policy doctrine, nor should it become one. Nevertheless this week the movement experienced a split…
The graduate benefit is not what it was
Politicians are keen to fix what is seen as a mounting political problem with student loans. An increasing number of…
Chris Philp: ‘The government showed no foresight whatsoever’
In the last few days, Keir Starmer has agreed to let the US military use UK bases to conduct specific…
The Premier League is not boring
In the Premier League this season, the number of open-play goals, shots and passes are all the lowest in years.…
Russian oil is back
Donald Trump on Thursday allowed India to import more Russian oil. India recently did a deal with the US that…
Trump says no thanks to Britain’s aircraft carriers
The war with Iran entered its second week on Saturday with intense fighting across multiple fronts, as Israeli forces struck…
Never has North Korea felt more smug about its nuclear weapons
If there’s one thing that the ongoing Iran-US conflict is teaching North Korea, it is that nuclear weapons are an…
Don’t sacrifice the Kurds
The Kurdish region along the Iran-Iraq border is an imposing landscape of sublime beauty this time of year. The snow-capped…
Why Reza Pahlavi cannot lead Iran
There are many reasons why Reza Pahlavi should not be a future leader of Iran. He left as a teenager…
Reflections on the first week of Operation Epic Fury
Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion, the joint US-Israeli campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran, have begun to reduce…
Brutalism is beautiful
Is a concrete Brutalist complex as worthy of commemoration and preservation as a medieval cathedral or neoclassical stately home? The…
Kiran Desai: ‘All cultures are rooted in magic’
It wasn’t until a painting arrived in her post, a gift from the Italian artist Francesco Clemente, that Kiran Desai’s…
Badenoch can show Polanski what a real green party looks like
Freed from the burden of choosing a prospective government, by-elections are an opportunity for voters to tell the political class…
The Akrotiri attack has weakened Britain’s position in Cyprus
When RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was targeted in an attempted drone attack on Monday, it didn’t just leave the British government…
We shouldn’t celebrate Ian Huntley’s death
Ian Huntley’s graveside will be a lonely one. Few will mourn a man who lurked in the darkest shadows of…
Is this Iran’s first climbdown?
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has announced that the country’s temporary leadership council has approved the suspension of attacks against neighbouring…
Ireland’s schizophrenic approach to Iran
On St Patrick’s day later this month, Taoiseach Micheal Martin will meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office. It could…
Is the US preparing for a long war against Iran?
Situation report The war in the Middle East shows no sign of slowing. Instead, there were heavy air strikes inside…
Could the Kurds rise up against Iran?
The hopes of the United States and Israel to bring about quick regime change in Tehran – whether through millions of…
Why the Ayatollahs might be harder to remove than Trump thinks
According to the old Farsi proverb, if you want a peacock, you must suffer the hardships of travelling to India.…
How the culture war came for the Italian opera house
The Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci taught that for the revolution to succeed it should conquer the means of thought…
Spanish border guards won’t make Gibraltar less British
Almost a decade after Brexit, Gibraltar is entering a new era. As stipulated in a thousand-page treaty published on 26…
MrBeast needs an education in schooling
You may never have heard of Jimmy Donaldson, but if you have unsupervised children they almost certainly have. He’s a…
