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Rowan Williams: ‘There’s something demonic in US political culture’
Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has said ‘there is something demonic’ in the ‘political culture’ of the United…
Miliband’s fight against North Sea drilling is far from over
What have North Sea oil and gas production and grammar school education got in common? Both are subject to a…
In defence of Olly Robbins
The Mandelson scandal continues to metastasise throughout Whitehall. We now know, from reporting in the Guardian and largely confirmed by…
How France is bending the knee to Iran
What is Emmanuel Macron playing at? In the space of just a few days, three apparently unconnected incidents have the…
Can a new national selector save English cricket?
The England Cricket Board is appointing a new national selector: the window for applications closes today. If they get a…
John Swinney wants to decide Scotland’s food prices
First Minister John Swinney needed a headline-grabbing new policy for the launch of his party’s Holyrood election manifesto today, and…
Starmer is making life impossible for the Chagos Islanders
Five of them came aboard our sailing boat at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Naval and Royal Marine personnel rebranded as…
Olly Robbins sacked over Mandelson scandal
The Mandelson scandal claims yet another victim. Late on Thursday night, Olly Robbins was sacked from his post as the…
Three claims Starmer must explain on Mandelson
Spin, spin, spin! That furious sound you can hear out of Westminster is Labour’s apparatchiks doing their damnedest to dig…
Who’s actually winning the wars in the Middle East?
If you read the New York Times or watch the foreign policy establishment’s “best and brightest,” you will be told,…
Watch: Meghan says she was ‘the most trolled person in the entire world’
They say that the clue is in the name, but with Meghan the first two letters give the game away:…
Did Starmer mislead MPs over Mandelson?
It is the cardinal rule of British politics: never lie to parliament. For, as Boris Johnson found to his cost,…
Treasury squabbles are harming Britain’s national security
The symphony of criticism aimed at the government for failing to live up to its promises of boosting Britain’s defences…
Epsom betrays the truth about Britain’s politicised police
Explain this to me. Why is it that a gathering of mostly white working-class men protesting about a rape is…
Europe must play the small boat people smugglers at their own game
Belgium is becoming the new point of departure for the gangs who traffic migrants across the Channel to England. It…
Why Trump’s attacks on the Pope are backfiring
They told us religion would fade. That as the 21st century matured – more educated, more technological, more ‘enlightened’ –…
Has the For Women Scotland judgement made any difference?
Here is a lesson in power. One year ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in For Women…
What’s really behind Trump’s clash with the Pope?
Donald Trump’s latest clash with the Catholic Church stunned even the most hardened veterans of culture-war X. According to the…
Britain’s economy is growing – but not for long
It must be bittersweet being Rachel Reeves. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy…
Labour is turning a blind eye to China’s persecution of Uyghurs
Of all Labour’s U-turns, none is perhaps more egregious than their stance on China. In opposition, they were happy to…
The Scottish Greens want everything to be free
The Scottish Green party can usually be relied upon to provide some light relief at election time. But this year,…
Trump is making life increasingly hard for his allies
Here is a fun one: what do Giorgia Meloni, Pope Leo XIV, Ed Miliband and the Cato Institute all have…
Oh the joy of watching Keir Starmer descend into fury!
Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living…
Does Mark Carney believe in democracy?
Mark Carney is swaggering about Canada with his new majority government, acting as if he’d just received a landslide mandate…
Starmer wants to ask, not answer, the questions at PMQs
Keir Starmer gave six responses to questions about Lord Robertson’s defence spending comments today, none of which addressed the criticism…
