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Topshop’s return doesn’t mean the high street is safe
You probably won’t see Kate Moss gossiping with a Spice Girl or two by the changing rooms, but for anyone…
Why Rachel Reeves will keep designing terrible taxes
I suspect most of us long ago gave up on expecting any humility from our politicians – indeed, the less…
Trump’s big Bolivia opportunity
After nearly two decades of reign over Bolivia, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party was banished at the ballot box…
How Democrats failed Minneapolis
What happens after an unspeakable tragedy? One that comes on an idyllic late August day in Minneapolis that signaled the…
Reeves’s glum Budget briefings are hurting the economy
Rachel Reeves’s error before last autumn’s Budget might have been written off as the act of a ministerial rookie. She…
Was the Minneapolis shooting an anti-Catholic hate crime?
‘Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now,’ said Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey, standing near the scene…
Farage’s ECHR plans risk destroying the Union with Ireland
‘They’re tearing this country apart.’ I heard it in a pub last week. A man, with the light blue of…
The folly of blaming boomers for France’s financial crisis
Ministers are packing up their offices. Emmanuel Macron’s government, desperate to shift the narrative and rally support ahead of its…
Muriel Bowser’s praise for Donald Trump
Mayor Muriel Bowser has found herself in the middle of a political tightrope – and it’s one that many Democrats…
The unstoppable rise of Send
As students go back to school this September, headteachers across the country are being forced to confront a system in…
Taylor Swift: queen of the normies?
Politicos used to know how to take the temperature of the nation. They could talk to their cab driver. They…
Why has Putin gone after the British Council in Kyiv?
Is Moscow targeting European institutions in Kyiv in the hope of ‘sabotaging peace’ as Keir Starmer has claimed? Putin probably…
Man Utd vs Grimsby is what football should be about
Poor old Ruben Amorim. The sight of the hapless Manchester United manager cowering in the Blundell Park dugout seemingly praying…
Rylan is a sign the immigration debate is shifting
I’ve always been quite fond of Rylan Clark. No, that isn’t quite true – when his terrifyingly toothsome grin appeared…
A fifth of MPs’ questions now ‘carded’
The House of Commons returns next week – and not a moment too soon for some in government. After a…
Murder of the innocents in Minneapolis
For the second time in two years, a deranged assassin has committed a mass shooting at a Christian school in America. Like Audrey Hale, Robin Westman identified as transgender and once…
Ed Davey’s pathetic Gaza boycott
Ed Davey has built an entire political career on pratfalls, water slides and staged wipe-outs, like a children’s entertainer who…
Ed Davey to boycott Trump’s state banquet
Buckingham Palace has endured its fair share of shocks and crises over the years. But last night, His Majesty was…
Can India’s economy survive Trump’s tariffs?
President Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on India kicked in yesterday. The timing could not be worse: in May, India…
Why is it OK to fly a Palestinian flag but not the St George’s Cross?
If, like me, you spend too much time on social media you’ll have noticed a recurring theme in recent days:…
Rachel Reeves is itching to whack up taxes
Gosh, Labour really does hate private landlords. Rachel Reeves’ latest property tax proposal to be dangled before the public is…
Iran may be down, but it’s not out
The sirens began at about 5 am. A Houthi ballistic missile was on its way, over Jerusalem, in the direction…
London needs more – not fewer – ‘headphone dodgers’
When you’re travelling abroad, a good way of getting the measure of any city is the culture of its public…
How long can Miliband’s net zero wheeze last?
The current head of energy policy in this country is Muppet-made-flesh Ed Miliband. While he makes a speciality of eye-catching…
Is Jack White washed up?
Once, it might have seemed strange for American politicians to use a rock star as a proxy means of sniping…
