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Who are the contenders to be the next ‘C’?
Somewhere in an office on the south bank of the Thames, a man is writing in green ink and signing…
Gareth Southgate has nothing original to say
Football’s most revered promulgator of platitudes is at it again. Sir Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, has warned that…
No one will thank Liz Kendall for doing her job
There are three thankless posts in a modern Labour government. There’s the Chancellor, who has to announce the tightening of…
Badenoch caught Starmer out at PMQs
Keir Starmer didn’t have to defend his welfare cuts until later in the session at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions, because…
Why don’t we hear more about Israel’s stunning blow against Hamas’s fascists?
Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the…
A storm is brewing for Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is once again plunging Israel into a deeply polarising legal and political crisis. Over the weekend,…
Sturgeon unveils memoir cover
Nicola Sturgeon may be stepping down at the 2026 Scottish parliament election but fear not, the SNP’s Dear Leader won’t…
How Conor McGregor humiliated the Irish government
The Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin will have felt some relief after his visit to the White House last week. While…
Scotland’s politicians must take the Reform threat seriously
Support for Nigel Farage’s party in Scotland is surging. This is despite the fact the Scottish group has no party…
Bristol’s low traffic bullies have gone too far
At 3am last Thursday morning, council contractors and police descended on a Bristol neighbourhood to install roadblocks under the cover of…
Reform records highest support yet in Scotland
As if Brits haven’t had enough elections and leadership competitions lately, north of the border political parties are gearing up…
Trump was naive to think he could negotiate with Putin
President Donald Trump’s creative diplomacy in the Ukraine conflict – which entails bullying the victim and making unilateral concessions to…
China’s BYD could kill Tesla
Tesla and its hyper-active boss Elon Musk are having a bad month. On both sides of the Altantic, there have…
Trump’s call with Putin has bought Ukraine time
So who won from yesterday’s phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Arguably, no one did – but nor…
Could a headscarf row bring down France’s government?
Might a headscarf bring down France’s coalition government? The question of whether the Islamic garment should be permitted on the…
Watch: Labour MP’s car crash Newsnight interview
The party of working people is doing a rather good job these days of irritating, er, working people. Work and…
Merz has paid a high price to pass Germany’s spending package
Yesterday, the German parliament approved a historic amount of debt-funded investment in defence and infrastructure. Over the next few years,…
Cosying up to Putin has weakened Trump’s hand in Europe
Once upon a time, America practiced ping-pong diplomacy to try and improve ties with Mao’s China. Now Donald Trump and…
Putin has played Trump like a fiddle
And so it begins. Welcome to the first episode of the latest season of Putin’s Theatre of Fugazi – the…
Can the social contract survive in Britain?
In the vestry of the church where my father was priest, there was a large wall-mounted plaque commemorating some long-dead…
Is Syria heading for a fresh dictatorship?
Syria’s new constitution quickly drew a lot of criticism. Signed by President Ahmed al-Sharaa last week, the document aims to…
Save me from Disney’s Snow White feminism
Controversy surrounding the live-action version of Snow White, which is released on Friday, suggests there is little likelihood of a…
A smartphone ban won’t solve our kids’ problems
As a former teacher, I can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that Bridget Phillipson ranks among the worst…
Is Putin’s partial ceasefire really a victory for Trump?
It may be taking him longer than the 24 hours he pledged on the campaign trail, but it appears that…
Elon Musk is wrong about Radio Free Europe
The termination of US government funding for the two venerable radio stations Radio Free Europe (RFE) and Radio Liberty (RL)…
