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What happened to the Birmingham I love?
My beloved Birmingham, the city I called home for 26 years and where my children grew up, is drowning in…
Israeli students aren’t troubled by ‘microaggressions’
Jerusalem’s Shalem College should have been brimming with life when we visited last month. But this leafy campus was oddly…
Have I grown out of my dyslexia?
I am 11 years old and in an English class. My teacher asks who wants to read out a passage…
Trump is playing a high-stakes game of international poker
On what he called “Liberation Day,” President Trump announced a new tariff schedule. While the markets had been up in…
Play Putin at his own game by ‘nightmaring’ his world order
There’s a delicious Russian verb that derives from the criminal underworld: “koshmarit,” literally “to nightmare someone.” It usually denotes how…
Proxy voting for new moms makes motherhood look like weakness
In recent days, babies have taken center stage at the US Capitol, carried by their congresswoman mothers advocating for a…
In defence of the Norfolk mega pig farm
The ‘blockers’ who have so offended Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have, for the moment, scored another success in thwarting…
Ex-Tory MSP joins the Lib Dems
The Scottish Liberal Democrats aren’t best known for their ability to grab headlines – but today the spotlight is on…
China hits back against Trump’s tariffs
Donald Trump has sown the wind – and now America must reap the whirlwind. Beijing has today announced plans to…
Could France’s GB News be shut down?
France’s media regulator, Arcom, has been asked to investigate the right-leaning news channel CNews over its coverage of Marine Le…
Will the markets make Trump see sense on tariffs?
This week Donald Trump declared ‘Liberation Day,’ unveiling a barrage of tariffs that had been trailed as correcting unfair trade…
Starmer’s skills adviser founded failing school
There’s a new man about Whitehall. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed Oli de Botton – ex-adviser to David Miliband…
Are Islamist gangs in control of Britain’s most secure prison?
HMP Frankland, in Durham, is supposed to be one of the most secure jails in the country. The category A…
They think it’s all over for President Yoon – it is now
Yoon Suk Yeol, elected South Korea’s president in 2022, has been removed from office. The Constitutional Court in Seoul has…
Labour council tells staff to take ‘privilege’ test
If you thought progressive politics couldn’t get any worse, think again. It transpires that the Labour-led Westminster city council is…
The truth about Israel’s ‘bloodlust’ in Gaza
Are we being lied to, or at the very least misled, about what’s going on in Gaza? It increasingly seems…
Trump can’t ignore the stock market carnage forever
As it turned out, the only thing Liberation Day was actually liberating anyone from was their money. In the wake…
Trump has finally ditched Macron for Marine Le Pen
It’s official, the bromance between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is over. It had always been a rocky relationship but…
Nato needs to prepare for America’s withdrawal from Europe
Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary general, has a reputation for genial flexibility and an ability to evade trouble. During his…
The logic behind Trump’s tariffs is not coherent
This week Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day,” unveiling a barrage of tariffs that had been trailed as correcting for unfair…
Has King Trump lost his jester?
The most important man in the palace of King Donald Trump looks set to leave the court. According to several…
Why did Trump throw Taiwan under the bus?
Things could have been very different. Since the distant days of the first Trump presidency, Taiwanese tech companies have been…
Javier Milei is deluded about the Falklands
Javier Milei might be a Thatcherite economically, but when it comes to the Falklands he’s about as Thatcherite as a…
Is Hungary right to quit the ICC?
When Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, who is nobody’s fool, offered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu a state visit to Budapest…
Unlocked was changing inmates’ lives. So why has Labour binned it?
Unlocked Graduates, a charity that recruited hundreds of high-calibre graduates into the prison service, was one of the few glimmers…
