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Is this the real reason Brits are taking so many sick days?
Are Britons getting sicker and sicker – or is our health improving? There seems to be something of a paradox.…
Marine Le Pen is calling the shots now
Emmanuel Macron projects authority, but he’s trapped. After the collapse of François Bayrou’s government yesterday evening, Macron faces a divided…
Bridget Phillipson stands to replace Angela Rayner
The resignation of Angela Rayner on Friday created two vacancies. The first was in her formal role as deputy leader…
Why wasn’t Pride in Surrey cancelled?
This weekend, I bought a ticket to attend the controversial Pride in Surrey (PiS) event, held in Guildford. My interest…
Disabled people don’t need BBC do-gooders sticking up for them
Jamie Borthwick is an uncommonly fine young actor who, frankly, is far too good for the increasingly strained and schlocky…
Emily Thornberry for deputy!
They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but I have a better serving suggestion. How about revenge plated…
Is it all over for Milei?
A landslide election defeat for Argentine President Javier Milei’s Libertad Avanza party has made money markets doubt whether he will…
Macron’s France is descending into chaos
As expected, the government of François Bayrou has lost its vote of confidence in the National Assembly. Three hundred and…
Shabana Mahmood sets out her stall
Shabana Mahmood wasn’t given long in her new gig before facing the media. She became Home Secretary on Friday afternoon,…
France has been plunged into crisis – again
Prime Minister François Bayrou’s government has collapsed after a bruising no-confidence vote in the French National Assembly. MPs rejected his…
Will cops wearing Arabic badges serve and protect all?
Last week, the Dearborn Heights Police Department revealed the nation’s first-ever officer uniform patch featuring Arabic script. It was designed…
Who will succeed Shigeru Ishiba?
Here we go again. In what appears now to be an annual event, the Japanese prime minister has resigned. In…
Reform MSP: We’ll never have a pro-indy candidate
As of late August, Nigel Farage’s Reform party now has representatives in local government, Westminster, the Welsh Senedd and the…
The Jerusalem massacre and the illusion of peace
You can tell a great deal about countries and people by how they react to a horrific act of terror.…
Scott Bessent, future UFC fighter?
Plans have begun on constructing the Octagon on the White House lawn for a UFC fight to commemorate what President…
Labour’s deputy leadership race could tear Starmer’s party apart
The rules have been fixed and the timetable agreed. So, who will be the key players in the race to…
More disruption for Starmer as strategist quits after two weeks
It’s all change in Sir Keir Starmer’s government. After his former deputy Angela Rayner resigned from both her government and…
Four years on the run: New Zealand’s fugitive dad shot dead by police
A fugitive father who vanished into the rugged bushlands of the Waikato region of New Zealand with his three children…
Bring on the driverless Tube
London’s entire underground tube system – apart from the Elizabeth Line – is being paralysed for almost a week by a…
The case for MAGA imperialism
Empire has always been part of the American tradition. We are a sequel state to the greatest empire in world…
Will Rayner take her £17k handout?
On Friday, Angela Rayner resigned as Deputy Prime Minister after a probe into her tax affairs by Sir Laurie Magnus,…
Who cares if there’s a blunder in Ian McEwan’s latest book?
Ian McEwan’s new novel What We Can Know isn’t even out yet, and already someone has spotted a goof. In…
For the good of France, Macron must go
This evening Emmanuel Macron will almost certainly be searching for his fifth prime minister since January last year. Francois Bayrou’s…
Prince Harry returns, but does Britain want him back?
“Success”, Winston Churchill was once reputed to have said, “is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss…
Why do so many Brits hate Jews?
If you’re a Brit who doesn’t hate Jews – a smaller number than you might think – then you may…
