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RIP Fay Weldon, a force of nature
Novelists can often be disappointingly unremarkable as people but occasionally one, like Fay Weldon, is a force of nature. She…
The last time the House couldn’t elect a leader
A scandal-prone president of tepid popularity and questionable health sits in the White House. The Republicans hold a majority in…
The bipartisan bridge to nowhere
Politicians and members of the press love to drone on about bipartisanship, waxing lyrical about the way things used to…
The war between the Windsors hits a new low
It was inevitable, with a book as highly anticipated as Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, that there would be a leak…
The Katie Porter scandal everyone is ignoring
Katie Porter, darling of the liberal media, is having a rough couple of weeks. The California congresswoman has recently been…
A junkie’s pride
I first quit a substance at the tender age of nineteen, when heroin addiction brought me to my knees within…
Who would be the Republican House Speaker now?
The clash that has led to the historic abnormality of a House of Representatives without a speaker is fascinating in…
Are Rishi Sunak’s five targets real?
In his speech today, the Prime Minister gave five targets: ‘Halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut [NHS] waiting…
UFC boss Dana White can’t survive his wife-slapping scandal
Mike Tyson is said once to have claimed the best punch he’d ever thrown was one he landed on actress…
Moscow is playing a risky blame game in Makiivka
At one minute past midnight on 1 January, as Putin uttered the last words of his new year’s address, Ukraine sent six Himars rockets into…
Sunak: judge me on my priorities
Rishi Sunak’s new year speech was more about what he wants to fix rather than how he plans to fix…
Rishi Sunak: My vision for a better future
New Year should be a time of optimism and excitement. Yet I know many of you look ahead to 2023…
Matt Gaetz is making Trump look like a fool
In the Quaker denomination, they have a term: “bloody-minded objector.” Because the Society of Friends requires consensus on all matters…
Childcare is broken in the UK
The Truss administration made many missteps, but on childcare it was on the right track. Though details were lacking, the…
Is Boris going to do the chicken run?
Is 2023 going to be the year of Boris? Much of the commentariat seems to think it’s possible, with the…
The Republican party’s civil war will delight Joe Biden
Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis declared as he was sworn in for a second time yesterday that, under his reign, Florida…
Kevin McCarthy is a dead man walking
On Tuesday, Governor Ron DeSantis enjoyed an orderly ceremony as he was sworn in for the second time in Tallahassee.…
Will Beijing block Britain’s embassy?
It’s not been the best few years for Sino-British relations, what with Huawei, Hong Kong and the whole Covid thing.…
Why can’t the UK remove EU laws in a year?
As is increasingly common, government policy was leaked to the Times this week by a ‘senior government source’. The source stated that…
China is paying a high price for opening up
Beijing’s roads are busy once more. Though zero Covid had ended in December, cities across China emptied out again over…
Was Pope Benedict XVI right about Catholic tolerance?
It is not for me, a non-Catholic, to say whether the late Pope, Benedict XVI, served his Church well. But…
The trouble with Prince Harry
The promotional clip trailing Prince Harry’s upcoming interview – which has kicked off the publicity trail for his forthcoming memoir Spare –…
Edward Luttwak, the uncontained strategist
“Christ, Edward! No!” Edward Luttwak has just lunged at me with a knife in the study of the house he…
Dry January is cruel
Allow me to set the scene for you. It is the coldest month of the year and also the darkest.…
Challenging anti-Semitism is a moral imperative for non-Jews
One of the functions of the honours system is to articulate our principles and priorities. Amid the cringe cronyism and…
