World
Peter Mandelson has become a liability
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Less than a month after presenting his credentials to President Trump, His Britannic…
‘Struggling’ Rayner gets her third aide
When you’ve got a majority of 167, how do you keep control? The answer, it seems, is jobs for the…
Against suit shaming
Most of the people in my feed spent their weekend talking about how ashamed they are of their country. That’s…
Starmer: Zelensky is a ‘hero’
Keir Starmer was careful in his Commons statement about Ukraine to distance himself from what happened in the Oval Office…
Angela Rayner is exercising her ‘right to switch off’ Britain’s growth
It was reported over the weekend that the government has dropped ‘the right to switch off’ from its Employment Rights…
‘Europe plus’ won’t save Ukraine
Days after the disastrous White House showdown between Volodymir Zelensky and Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer has done an undoubtedly…
Priti Patel attacks Nigel Farage over Zelensky comments
During the early days of the Gaza crisis, there was an unofficial refrain doing the rounds in the Foreign Office:…
Lee Anderson attacks ‘pathetic’ Ben Habib
There’s a drama a day in Westminster. Today’s bust-up is between Reform MP Lee Anderson and the party’s former deputy leader Ben…
Why Britain isn’t standing up for Canada
In May 1940, days after the Dunkirk evacuation, the Churchill defender Andreas Koureas recalls how the great British war leader…
What’s the real reason some on the right hate Volodymyr Zelensky?
Perusing the Zelensky-bashing of the Very Online right, I found myself thinking: ‘This reminds me of something.’ The branding of…
Farage blasts Zelensky over Trump meeting
The extraordinary scenes that came from the White House on Friday were the talk of the weekend – and relations…
The fatal flaws in Trump’s crypto reserve plan
President Trump was very bullish about his decision over the weekend to create a ‘crypto reserve’. It will legitimise crypto…
Watch: Mandelson says Kyiv should back Trump plan
Oh dear. It has only been 22 days since Peter Mandelson formally became Britain’s Ambassador to Washington – and he…
A refreshingly apolitical Oscars
It is always nice to have a personal connection to the Oscars, however slight and fleeting it might be; hearing…
The man with the ‘golden arm’, who saved two million babies
James Harrison, who died in his sleep at a care home in Australia last month at the age of 88,…
The ‘goodies and baddies’ era of world politics is over
It’s hard to overstate just how shocking, how grotesque and shaming, was President Trump’s outburst against Ukraine’s President Zelensky in…
Why was there so little fanfare after David Johansen’s death?
We were twice transported back to the early 1970s this weekend, our memories snagged on the deaths of Roberta Flack…
Keir Starmer has had his best week since becoming Prime Minister
Even Keir Starmer’s fiercest detractors (and there are a fair few) must concede that he has had a very good…
What went wrong with The Archers?
I was once a fan of The Archers, to the extent that the Guardian quoted me in 2007 outlining how…
The copyright battle is only part of the AI war
Artificial intelligence (AI) really is the next industrial revolution. In fact, it’s already started, and the technology’s capability is developing…
King Charles offers his support to Zelensky
This weekend marks perhaps the most turbulent 48 hours that Ukraine’s President Zelensky has ever experienced – and, given the…
Starmer has his work cut out bringing peace to Ukraine
Keir Starmer today attempted to make the debate about Ukraine’s future one primarily held by Ukraine and European countries. This…
Watch: Starmer rejects SNP call to cancel Trump state visit
Well, you can’t say they don’t try. With Europe still reeling from Donald Trump’s oval office bust-up with Ukrainian president…
Starmer’s summit is high stakes for Zelensky
There is only one story dominating the news this weekend following Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting on Friday with the US…
Can South Korea fix its birth rate woes?
Month after month, it just kept plummeting. The South Korean birth rate last year earned the not-so-holy prize for being…
