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BBC report concludes some stars ‘behave unacceptably’
Back to the Beeb, which is better at making the news rather than breaking it these days. Now a new…
Will Labour’s migration crackdown work?
Who is the most powerful woman in government? For some, it is the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper. Next month, her…
Nike’s ‘Never again’ slogan is a disgrace
Fifty-six thousand runners completing the London Marathon yesterday may well have gasped the words ‘never again’ as they staggered across…
Revealed: Over a thousand quango staff earn six figures
In its war on waste, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has been busy scrutinising the effectiveness of quangos – and…
Has Rachel Reeves blown her shot at a US trade deal?
The pictures of a triumphant Rachel Reeves holding aloft a US trade deal as she boards a plane home from…
Three problems with a Tory-Reform pact
The final week of the local election campaign begins today. Much of the weekend discourse was dominated by the fall-out…
Labour must refuse pay rises for teachers and nurses
Never was there more truth in the old adage about every organisation that is not specifically right-wing eventually becoming left-wing.…
Macron has let an epidemic of violence grip France
These have been terrible days in France. On Thursday, a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death and several of her…
How the EU youth mobility scheme could save Brexit
Rachel Reeves sounds surprisingly perky. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, of course, been forced – we may think, through…
The truth about trans rights in Britain
The Supreme Court judgement on sex and gender was a welcome return to common sense. As far as the Equality…
Trans men using women’s toilets isn’t always a problem
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s clarification of the Supreme Court ruling on what is a woman is not as…
Houchen mulls anti-Labour pact with Reform
After the 4 July wipeout last year, Ben Houchen became the most senior Conservative left in public office across the…
Watch: Gaza protestors disrupt London marathon
Just as day follows night, protestors accompany spectacle. Thousands took part this morning in the London marathon to raise millions…
Pope Francis leaves behind a divided church
Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88 was neither untimely nor a great surprise. Having made what appeared to…
Canadians need saving from Mark Carney, not Donald Trump
Tomorrow’s election will be one of the most important in Canadian history. The results hang on one crucial question: what’s…
Why German beer is going flat
German beer has been an important part of the country’s culture and history for centuries. When tourists think about travelling…
Jacinda Ardern and the empty politics of ‘kindness’
Just over two years on from stepping down as Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern is awaiting the imminent…
Why the new pope won’t be welcome in China
Choosing a new pope has more in common than you might expect with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) congress’s system…
The pain and paranoia of the London Marathon
Everyone knows that running a marathon can be painful. The worst part is the final 6.2 miles of the course,…
Bolivia’s fuel crisis could cause a populist turn
‘Some of them will have been waiting for two days.’ My taxi driver was pointing at a queue of lorries,…
Labour’s benefits cuts aren’t working
Britain’s welfare crisis may have slipped from the front pages following Liz Kendall’s £4.8 billion worth of cuts announced ahead…
Could Maga’s baby boom policies backfire?
If there is one thing that Trump appointees, and most Trump voters, can get behind, it’s that marriage and babies…
Virginia Giuffre was a victim of careless cruelty
The death of Virginia Giuffre by suicide at the age of 41 brings to an apparent end one of the…
Pope Francis’s funeral brought the least and the greatest together
In the story of Pope Francis’s papacy, the same thread ran through the first and final chapters. On the evening…
Will the assassination of another Russian general change anything?
Friday morning, Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was heading out from his flat in Balashikha, a commuter town east of Moscow,…
