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Gene-editing won’t save our fruit
The other day, I had a dismaying experience while making my usual frugal lunch. Usually, a cheese sandwich does me.…
The Motability scheme needs to be put into reverse
Keir Starmer’s government has taken some important first steps to bring the welfare budget under control. But expenditure on disability…
Cambridge can do better than Gina Miller
Oxford, said Matthew Arnold, was “the home of lost causes and forsaken beliefs”. Now Cambridge is giving it a run…
Don’t forget Bomber Command
There were many tributes when John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway, the last surviving fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain, died in…
Trump rules out a third term
Is Donald Trump forsaking four more years? In an interview today with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump indicated that while his…
Tehran’s cruelty is closer than we think
The arrest of eight men – seven of them Iranian nationals – across the United Kingdom in two separate counter-terrorism operations…
Merz’s plan to reclaim Germany’s place on the world stage
‘Germany is back,’ said Friedrich Merz, the man likely to be elected as the new German Chancellor this coming week.…
How great political parties die
Though local polls and by-elections are notoriously unreliable guides to general elections, and a week is indeed a long time…
Germany is dangerously close to banning the AfD
Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been declared ‘right-wing extremist’ who are ‘against the free democratic order’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence…
Sunday shows round-up: Streeting calls Reform a ‘real threat’ to Labour
Wes Streeting admits that Reform UK might become Labour’s ‘main challengers’ Thursday’s local elections were bruising for both main parties,…
What Micheal Martin gets wrong about the 1916 proclamation
As thousands of protesters thundered through central Dublin over Easter weekend, waving a sea of tricolour flags, Ireland’s anti-immigration movement…
The ugly truth about Lucy Powell’s grooming gangs comments
This week Lucy Powell, leader of the House of Commons, did something unusual for a politician: she spoke from the…
Jordan Bardella’s moment has arrived
It is time to take seriously the possibility that the next president of France will be Jordan Bardella. His star…
Are Protestants free to criticise Catholicism?
The death of a Pope is a time for assorted reflections on the Catholic Church. Protestants can be wary of…
Are the Tories really mad enough to change their leader again?
To no one’s surprise, this week’s election results make miserable reading for the Tories, and the attacks on Kemi Badenoch…
Who can knock out Mr Farage?
David Cameron’s promise of an EU referendum in 2013 was designed to head off the apparent challenge to his party’s…
Why Duolingo isn’t helping you learn a foreign language
Duolingo claims that it is ‘the world’s best way to learn a language’. The app – which has tens of…
What Kneecap won’t tell you about growing up in Belfast
The three members of Irish rap band Kneecap are ‘ceasefire babies’: they grew up on the streets of Belfast around…
The real reason the UK always fails at Eurovision
The UK has a peerless reputation for producing some of the catchiest and most imaginative pop music on the planet.…
Labour minister: rape gangs are a ‘dog whistle’
Uh oh. Commons Leader Lucy Powell has found herself in hot water after making some rather careless remarks on BBC…
Australian election: Trump helps topple second conservative leader
Tonight, Australia voted decisively for continuity. The Labor government of prime minister Anthony Albanese has not merely been re-elected. It…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr
In the matter of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his all-expenses-paid sojourn in El Salvador, there has been a goodly quota…
The strategic ascent of Kai Trump
In the gilded corridors of Trump Tower and the manicured greens of exclusive golf courses, a new Trump is quietly…
Badenoch is leading the Tories off a cliff
It’s always sad to discover that one of your favourite quotations was made up. After communism’s fall, Robert Conquest’s American…
The revenge of Prince Harry
It was always unlikely that Prince Harry was going to take his latest and perhaps most humiliating legal defeat with…
