It was all guns blazing from Kemi Badenoch today. The Tory leader has clashed before with the Guardian – most…

The impressive shift in the terms of trade of the immigration debate in the last 24 hours proves one unlikely proposition:…

A few weeks ago, I received an invitation from Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, to listen to Rutger Bregman deliver…

Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology…

For years, the SNP has relied on a particular political alchemy. It takes on extremely liberal social positions to appeal…

We’ve become grimly accustomed to people throwing around the phrase ‘far right’. But seeing it flung at Labour home secretary…

For all the talk about artificial intelligence and quantum supremacy, the fate of civilizations still depends on breakfast. ChatGPT can’t…

Another day at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), another apparent data mishap – this time on net migration figures.…

This may not be the conclusion Israel imagined when it launched its campaign in Gaza. Not all the hostage bodies…

President Trump has assembled the largest naval force in the Caribbean since the Cold War. How will it be used?…

At 94 per cent of GDP, UK government debt is the fourth highest among advanced European economies. With the tax…

The Budget countdown is on, and with just over a week to go until Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s big fiscal statement…

Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Wall Street has started to fall.…

Notionally, Americans have never been better off. The ructions in tech stocks over the past few weeks cannot detract from…

Though reporters covering the Trump administration are very familiar with Steven Cheung, the Donald’s combative White House communications director, he’s…

Refugees could contribute £266,000 each to the UK economy: that’s the claim made by the Together with Refugees coalition and…

Ticket touts have never been popular. Yet this unpopularity is no warrant for Labour to deprive ticket holders of their…

I tweeted the other day that my social life in Trump’s DC is just getting dinner or drinks with a…

A young woman recently approached me as I stood outside Trader Joe’s on the corner of 93rd Street and Columbus…

I suppose the big anniversary event of the coming new year is the semi-quincentennial of the American Revolution. I’m all…

An adage dating at least from my adolescence: “You either use it or lose it.” This bit of folk wisdom,…

There’s something wickedly entertaining in reading about other people’s kitchen debacles, whether actual or fictional. They’re just so relatable. The…

Occasionally, a French person reveals – without any malice or superciliousness – that they run on an alternative operating system…

The gin and tonic has had quite the journey. From humble beginnings protecting British explorers against malaria, it has become…

If you say the name Franco Zeffirelli to anyone under about 40, you’re likely to be met with bemusement. Find…