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Howard Stern disappeared years ago
It’s hard to say out loud, but it looks like The Howard Stern Show may finally be winding down at…
Why Trump must build a nuclear reactor on the Moon
Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation whom President Trump appointed last month as temporary leader of NASA, has issued a…
Does Northumberland really want to see the return of lynx?
Farming is hard, and sheep farming especially so. Sheep are endearing but awkward creatures, generally looking for the most inconvenient…
South Korea’s reconciliation plan with the North is doomed to fail
On both sides of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, loudspeakers blasting news, music, weather reports, wailing…
Why is it still acceptable to abuse men with long hair?
It was a hairy situation. At a drab corporate dinner in a posh hotel basement, one of my fellow diners…
The demonisation of Israeli ‘settlers’
In the UK today, hold the wrong view and you’re cast as beyond the pale. Brexiteers are bigots. If you…
What if Starmer had been prime minister in the second world war?
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has posed a fascinating counter-factual question about our Prime Minister: what if Keir…
Can ‘China Studies’ still be trusted?
It is generally agreed that Britain needs to improve its China capabilities. That a greater understanding of Chinese culture, history…
Snowshoeing with septuagenarians
Wading through breakup grief, I’d hit the haziest stage of recovery, somewhere between lying horizontal in dark rooms, and shaving…
How to jail the Russian hoax colluders
Now comes word that Attorney General Pam Bondi is opening a grand jury investigation into the attempt to falsely dragoon…
The death of banter and the BBC
I may be the last person in the UK to have seen the 1999 film Human Traffic (rereleased last month).…
The case for Biggles
The first Cold War thriller I ever read – before MacLean, before Le Carre, before Clancy – was Biggles Buries…
The great British pub is not dead yet
My Oxfordshire taproom used to sing on Fridays: carpenters, teachers and office clerks, knackered from the week’s graft, would elbow…
The joy of flying will never die
The golden era of flying is over: rowdy passengers, greedy airlines and miserable airports make travelling nowadays rather grim. The…
A Trump-branded peace deal
Mount Ararat rises over Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, its peak often lost in clouds. It is the country’s national symbol, yet…
Putin awards Order of Lenin to CIA chief’s son
John Reed, a young Harvard graduate and journalist, thought highly of the Bolshevik revolution and chronicled it in his book…
The nauseating hypocrisy of Kneecap
You truly could not make it up. Kneecap, who spent the past three months whingeing and complaining about their gigs…
You were never meant to know about the court service IT bug
Another day, another scandal in Britain’s collapsing public sector. Today’s concerns the country’s courts. A BBC investigation has turned up an…
The devaluing of American citizenship
President Trump’s call for a new US census that excludes illegal immigrants has stirred up exactly the kind of debate…
Could Britain learn from Japan’s ‘vigilante’ groups?
A uniformed group of volunteers is planning to patrol the mean streets of Bournemouth in response to a recent surge…
Spain’s anti-Islam turn
‘Spain is and will be forever the land of Christian people’. These are not, as you might think, the words…
Labour is entering its ‘Zanu-PF’ era
If you hadn’t heard of Rushanara Ali until her resignation yesterday, then good for you. If you still hadn’t until…
To be a success, Starmer’s migrant deal must pass tough tests
First came the Starmer-Macron handshake, sealing the UK-France migrant treaty. Following that was a series of Home Office stories about…
The sad tale of Denmark’s buxom mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen didn’t write a fairy tale called ‘The Ugly, Pornographic Duckling’, yet his stories often feature alienation, exile…
The fog of tariffs
It was an all-caps kind of evening for the President. “RECIPROCAL TARIFFS TAKE EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT!” Donald Trump wrote on Truth…
