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The enduring message of Anthony Powell’s work
Anthony Powell died on 28 March 2000, twenty-five years ago today. It is also fifty years since he completed his…
J.D. Vance’s trip to Greenland is deeply insensitive
This morning, Vice President J.D. Vance is set to touch down in Greenland after deciding to join his wife Usha…
Rachel Reeves should leave ISAs alone
Voters won’t want to thank Rachel Reeves if the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) turns out to be right in…
Is Macron scared of Algeria?
Emmanuel Macron couldn’t have been clearer about why he wants to boost defence spending: ‘We want to protect peace in…
Three cheers to Wigmore Hall for breaking free from Arts Council England
Tonight, I’m going to hear Joyce DiDonato, one of the greatest living sopranos, sing Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise. On Saturday…
Trump’s choice on a replacement UN ambassador is complex
Maybe the surprising thing isn’t that Donald Trump yanked Elise Stefanik’s nomination to become ambassador to the United Nations. It’s…
What went wrong for MAGA in Pennsylvania
What’s changed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania? The Republican-leaning district in a purple state has been turned on its head by a…
A miracle DC plane crash didn’t happen sooner, Senate hears
The first Senate hearing on the mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January, which resulted in the…
How could Holyrood not mourn Christina McKelvie?
A parliament is an odd place. It’s the arena where clashing worldviews come to cross swords and there’s low and…
Watch: Sue Gray turns on Starmer
Talk about a belated Ides of March. It was less than 100 days before Keir Starmer sacked his first No.…
Farewell Just Stop Oil, you won’t be missed
So it’s a not-so-fond farewell to Just Stop Oil, the soup-throwing, hand-gluing environmentalist troupe. According to JSO activist Hannah Hunt, who…
What Jordan Bardella is doing in Israel
In September 1987, during a radio interview with RTL, the late Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French National Front,…
Why the Houthis are targeting Jerusalem
Sirens blare across Israel, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. They have been triggered by a barrage of missiles, launched from…
The truth about the Paddington statue
When two inebriated RAF engineers broke a Paddington statue in half in Newbury earlier this month, they could not have…
Are tax hikes on the horizon?
Tax rises are almost certainly coming, Britain’s leading fiscal think tank has said. Those taxes are most likely to fall…
PBS and NPR should never have received public funding
Congress has been mulling the future of publicly-funded television and radio. Here’s a spoiler alert: that funding is toast. There…
Trump has Britain in a bind over car tariffs
The government has less than a week to decide how to respond to Donald Trump’s announcement of 25 per cent…
Why are firefighters painting their nails to ‘redefine masculinity’?
Call me old-fashioned but if I ever have the misfortune to be stuck inside a burning building, I want a…
What the CofE needs from Justin Welby’s successor
The Church of England website features a public consultation closing on 28th March on what qualities should be looked for in the…
Don’t count on Trump defending Poland from Russia
The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has warned Russia that the alliance would defend Poland against any aggression and would…
The collapse of 23andMe spells trouble for a part-neanderthal like me
Those of us who signed up for DNA testing kits from 23andMe did so thinking we’d unlock deep ancestral secrets.…
Who doesn’t want a free Eton education? Labour, apparently
Labour’s decision to add VAT to school fees shows that the party has an irrational hatred of posh schools. Hiking…
Can Reeves avoid further tax rises?
Rachel Reeves wakes to a swathe of tricky front pages this morning after the Spring Statement in which the Office…
Should police have the power to search homes without a warrant?
It’s back. The government is once again attempting to give the police powers to search homes without a warrant. Buried…
What J.D. Vance gets right
J.D. Vance is just about the least popular conservative in Britain right now. The US Vice President’s treatment of Volodymyr…
