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Why couldn’t this elite school cope with my talk on anti-Semitism?

14 March 2025 5:28 pm

Perhaps it is a rite of passage these days for a journalist to be cancelled. But I never expected that…

Is the sugar tax to blame for the slushy drinks scare?

14 March 2025 5:10 pm

The alleged ‘success’ of Mexico’s tax on sugary drinks inspired George Osborne to announce a sugar tax for the UK…

Trump’s war on Europe should not surprise anyone

14 March 2025 5:00 pm

Has there been a more cataclysmic year than 2025 for US-Europe relations? It started with US Vice President J.D. Vance’s…

The federal-state collisions looming over New York

14 March 2025 7:40 am

For New York liberals of a certain age, the term “states’ rights” has long been synonymous with segregation in the…

The Versaces have left Versace

14 March 2025 5:53 am

Donatella Versace was never supposed to be a fashion designer. She had no formal fashion education and was happy working…

Does Meghan Markle need another podcast?

14 March 2025 4:23 am

‘Success’, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked, ‘is the ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ If…

Is Putin really open to a ceasefire with Ukraine?

14 March 2025 3:46 am

Vladimir Putin is apparently open to a ceasefire in the war against Ukraine. But is he really? Just like that,…

Trump’s security, dress codes and airport romance in Palm Beach

14 March 2025 2:00 am

With President Trump spending so much time away from Washington at his home and club, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, there…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the geekoisie

14 March 2025 1:55 am

“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and…

Why I won’t date younger women

14 March 2025 1:40 am

I recently got some good news I’d like to share: I’m thirty-six years old. Yes, I know I’m chronologically seventy…

Taking the fast train back to imperialism

14 March 2025 1:15 am

I’m on a high-speed train. Forty years ago, such a statement would have been notable and specific: essentially, it meant…

Breakfasts, massages and reinvigorating Swiss thermal waters

14 March 2025 1:00 am

Last January, one of the first things my son-in-law wanted to know was if I’d found a “boy toy” after…

The Karoo has seen so much, but changed so little

14 March 2025 12:55 am

It’s an incongruous name for a wilderness, “the Karoo.” The nursery-like sound belies the harshness of a vast, arid hinterland…

What Vladimir Putin really wants from Ukraine

14 March 2025 12:53 am

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have very different negotiating styles. Trump lines up his offer in advance, browbeating all the…

Baseball may be trapped in a two-party system

14 March 2025 12:30 am

Hope springs eternal. With Opening Day 2025 under our belts, however, you cannot shake the feeling that America’s pastime, like…

Why John Lewis’s profits have soared

14 March 2025 12:19 am

Growth has ground to a halt, manufacturing is collapsing, and the government is desperately scratching around for ways to save…

The Tories should have scrapped NHS England

14 March 2025 12:06 am

Listening to Keir Starmer announce this morning that he is going to abolish NHS England can only make the Conservatives…

The small town in Ontario with a world-class chocolatier

14 March 2025 12:00 am

I’m sipping Madagascan hot chocolate out of white-and-gold Haviland Limoges, and nibbling on Venezuelan milk-chocolate bonbons, under an oil painting…

What is the point of abolishing NHS England?

13 March 2025 11:50 pm

What does Wes Streeting think the government will achieve by abolishing NHS England? The Health Secretary gave a statement to…

Why German-origin Americans keep quiet about their culinary contributions

13 March 2025 11:30 pm

Irish Americans are arguably the most ostentatious in their national celebrations. It is hard to imagine any other group getting…

The trouble with Starmer’s plan for change

13 March 2025 11:24 pm

At his speech at a Hull business campus this morning, Keir Starmer was introduced by a man who proudly noted…

Starmer scraps NHS England

13 March 2025 11:16 pm

It was widely briefed that the main focus of Sir Keir Starmer’s speech in Yorkshire today was his plan to…

The excellent wine of Mount Ventoux

13 March 2025 11:00 pm

On April 26, 1336, the poet Petrarch, accompanied by his younger brother, climbed up the windy slopes of Mount Ventoux…

Why should cohabitees get the benefits of marriage?

13 March 2025 10:55 pm

One way or another in life, we end up making choices, even if we think we’re choosing not to choose.…

Defence cooperation with France would be a bad idea for Britain

13 March 2025 10:29 pm

Donald Trump’s recent decision to deny Ukraine access to American intelligence data in the war against Russia has concentrated minds…