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Sleepy Joe leads the work-from-home crusade

19 October 2022 3:14 am

Rejoice, slackers of America! For there is a new figurehead leading your crusade for lunchtime naps, camera-off Zoom meetings and…

Carnage meets courtesy at the Georgia debates

19 October 2022 12:09 am

Atlanta, Georgia Georgia’s leading political candidates crossed swords earlier this week at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios for the Atlanta…

The threat of Chinese headhunters

18 October 2022 11:20 pm

It is hard to say what is more shocking, dozens of former British military pilots lured by vast salaries to…

Now the Aussies mock Truss too

18 October 2022 10:23 pm

How are the mighty fallen. Once, Liz Truss was the toast of Canberra, the champion of AUKUS and a Free…

Beware a Tory in a hurry

18 October 2022 9:40 pm

Liz Truss will not lead the Conservative party into the next general election, despite her rather hesitant claim to the…

Support the strikes!

18 October 2022 9:00 pm

There are no two groups more different than climate protesters and striking workers. The former are mostly plummy layabouts, posh…

Rishi Sunak lost. Get over it

18 October 2022 5:30 pm

The WhatsApp message doing the rounds in Westminster yesterday was succinct: ‘Rishi PM. Hunt Chx. Penny FS. It’s a done…

Stop blaming Tory members

18 October 2022 4:45 pm

With Jeremy Hunt installed as the representative Sensible and Penny Mordaunt answering questions in the House, Liz Truss has been…

Britain needs more honesty about unemployment

18 October 2022 4:30 pm

Is low unemployment causing us more problems than we realise? The suggestion might seem absurd, offensive even. It’s reminiscent of…

Is TRUTH Social doomed to fail?

18 October 2022 1:26 pm

Following his suspension from Twitter in the wake of January 6, the question of where Donald Trump would take his…

Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven

18 October 2022 1:22 pm

A secret hour-long recording of an October 2021 meeting of Los Angeles city politicos surfaced last week, as California’s midterm…

Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?

18 October 2022 8:29 am

Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…

The mystery of chronic Lyme disease

18 October 2022 5:04 am

I struggled to pull myself out of bed in the morning. I slept for hours at lunch breaks and was…

Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?

18 October 2022 4:23 am

Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…

Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler

18 October 2022 4:20 am

Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…

Mordaunt faces the music as Truss's understudy

18 October 2022 3:23 am

When the phrases ‘the Prime Minister is not under a desk’ and ‘I don’t think there has been a coup’…

The Cuban Missile Crisis has become a cultural touchstone

18 October 2022 2:28 am

At the beginning of 1962, President John F. Kennedy had high hopes for a peaceful year with the Soviet Union,…

Mordaunt: Truss isn't 'hiding' under a desk

18 October 2022 2:15 am

Oh dear. Liz Truss ducked the opportunity to come to the House to explain Jeremy Hunt’s U-turn earlier today. So…

Will the Nury Martinez fallout break Los Angeles politics?

18 October 2022 1:34 am

The resignation of Nury Martinez, the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council, is a dramatic development that…

Watch: Tory Muppets show

18 October 2022 12:59 am

Spiraling markets and grim-faced MPs don’t always make for the best of television viewing. Indeed, given the ongoing case in…

How Truss can secure her legacy

17 October 2022 10:20 pm

Liz Truss needs an exit strategy. Unless she can eke past Canning’s 119 days, the Prime Minister will go down…

Will there be a revolt on the Tory right?

17 October 2022 9:50 pm

What is the point of Liz Truss’s government? Expect more MPs to ask that question today after Jeremy Hunt’s statement…

It’s not easy to regain market trust

17 October 2022 9:15 pm

The government’s position has become so precarious – and its credibility with the markets so low – that even waiting…

Did Putin use Iranian martyr drones on Kyiv?

17 October 2022 9:10 pm

As Iranian munitions have hurtled through the air at the front line in the Donbas, and as Iranian suicide drones…

Joe Biden has jolted China

17 October 2022 6:45 pm

The chip war between China and America is heating up, with an increasingly assertive Joe Biden battling with Xi Jinping as…