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Release the Gonzales files

25 February 2026 7:34 am

We know the terrible details of how congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, 35, died. She poured gasoline on herself and then…

Why ministers want to talk about Andrew

25 February 2026 5:17 am

This afternoon’s Commons debate on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was unusual for all kinds of reasons. It was not just that the…

The NHS myth is cracking

25 February 2026 4:43 am

Despite soaking up more than £200 billion of taxpayers’ money per year, the NHS and health policy more widely are…

Reform’s plan for mass deportations

25 February 2026 12:37 am

After Zia Yusuf’s announcement that Reform would create a ‘UK Deportation Command’ (UKDC), much of the media leapt to make…

Why Australia wants Andrew out of the line of succession

24 February 2026 10:32 pm

‘Australians don’t want a bar of this bloke, frankly.’ That’s what Australia’s prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said today after calling…

State of the Union

What will Trump say in the State of the Union?

24 February 2026 10:31 pm

When President Trump speaks to Congress and the nation Tuesday night he will follow several familiar tropes. Like a long line of presidents before…

State of the Union

What will Trump say in the State of the Union address?

24 February 2026 10:31 pm

When President Trump speaks to Congress and the nation Tuesday night he will follow several familiar tropes. Like a long line of presidents before…

The killing that has divided Washington and Paris

24 February 2026 10:24 pm

Washington’s warning last week about the spread of far-left violence in France did not go down well in Paris. In…

Is there a simpler answer to the special needs crisis?

24 February 2026 9:22 pm

The Jesuits had it all wrong. They famously insisted: ‘Give me a boy at seven and I will give you…

Is Trump being played by Iran?

24 February 2026 6:32 pm

Half of America’s deployable air power sits within striking distance of Iran, and yet Washington is negotiating. Gaza is promised…

Can centrism survive in the Netherlands?

24 February 2026 6:00 pm

Rob Jetten being sworn as prime minister of the Netherlands would, not long ago, have seemed an exotic proposition. That…

The German army’s drones disaster

24 February 2026 5:42 pm

German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of…

How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob

24 February 2026 5:25 pm

The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It…

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The deep state vs Nixon

24 February 2026 5:00 pm

Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave…

My run-in with Stalin’s trolls

24 February 2026 6:14 am

My libel nightmare all started in a little Oslo bookshop – but amid the whirlwind of horrible scandals and atrocious…

Peter Mandelson arrested by Met Police

24 February 2026 5:57 am

Peter Mandelson, Britain’s short-lived ambassador to the US, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. In a…

Does parliament know how to legislate?

24 February 2026 5:32 am

Tomorrow the Welsh Senedd votes on whether to give legislative consent to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.…

Watch: Labour MP’s ‘dark shit’ jibe

24 February 2026 4:10 am

If you didn’t laugh at this Labour government, you would cry. The Anti-Corruption Minister has resigned over corruption; the Homelessness…

Labour’s special educational needs reforms don’t add up

24 February 2026 12:20 am

Does Bridget Phillipson think that every child has learning difficulties? The government’s long-overdue overhaul of provision for children with special…

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The truth about Mexico’s cartel wars

23 February 2026 11:14 pm

To understand the latest disturbing spasm of violence in Mexico, it helps to go back six years to an ultra-wealthy…

No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started

23 February 2026 9:54 pm

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that World War Three has already started. Speaking to the BBC on the eve of…

Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch

23 February 2026 9:38 pm

Oh dear. It seems that Martin Lewis, the self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’, has come a bit of a cropper in…

Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?

23 February 2026 8:55 pm

So: is the game up? Looking at the former Prince Andrew’s slumped posture, corpse-grey face and thousand-yard stare in the snatched photographs…

El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos

23 February 2026 6:05 pm

Mayhem has erupted across Mexico after security forces eliminated Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the drug lord widely known as El Mencho,…

Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?

23 February 2026 5:27 pm

Lent has barely begun, yet on the right of British politics the resurrection has already arrived. God, it seems, is…