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Watch: Starmer finally welcomes Supreme Court gender ruling
Hurrah! The day has finally come: Prime Minister Keir Starmer has, after almost a week of deafening silence, eventually got…
British fishermen could pay the price for an EU defence deal
You’re being ridiculous, they kept saying. Why do you keep talking about fish? The Brussels lobby could scarcely conceal its…
Pet theft in France is out of control
Dog theft in France is soaring. Animal protection groups estimate that up to 70,000 dogs are stolen each year –…
Trump won’t win against the Fed
President Trump yesterday escalated his attacks on the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell over his reluctance to cut…
Could this photo cost Mark Carney victory in Canada’s election?
Caryma Sa’d has captured the definitive image of the Canadian federal election. Over the weekend, the independent journalist posted a…
Outrage as Green MSP denounces Supreme Court ruling
Just when you think the Scottish Greens can’t get any battier, they do. This Easter Weekend eco-zealot MSP Maggie Chapman…
Why Labour is finally publishing migrant crime league tables
Official league tables displaying nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime are set to be published for the…
Sports are defying Trump’s trans ban
I was present when President Trump signed the executive order to protect women’s sports. But I knew the fight wasn’t…
Will AOC be the next leader of the Democrats?
What are we to make of an America in which David Brooks, the mild-mannered moderate of the New York Times…
Prince Andrew’s Easter appearance was a royal blunder
Every Christmas, Easter and other public gathering, the Royal Family are faced with an unfortunate choice: what to do about…
Have I Got News for You is a sad, unfunny spectacle
Like most people, I haven’t tuned in to Have I Got News For You for years. But when I heard…
Why are the police boasting about how useless they are?
If you’ve been in the City of London recently, you’ll likely have seen one of the blue plaques that have…
King Charles has much to learn from the Queen’s Christianity
Easter Monday would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 99th birthday, a milestone that invites reflection on her extraordinary reign and…
Pete Hegseth’s fight is about more than mere staff personalities
The Washington firing squad is out for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. His department has seen the dramatic departure of three…
The Trump administration attempts to correct the record on Covid
Last Friday the White House launched, without warning (which is how they like to do things), what is essentially a truth…
Does Farage have a path to No. 10?
My contention was always that Reform UK would struggle to reach 30 per cent in the polls and, while the…
Freedom is still the Revolutionary War’s legacy
When the first shot rang out at dawn on Lexington Green, a decade of frustration and growing alienation between the…
Trump takes a hammer to the universities
President Trump has already dropped the first hammer on Harvard. He’s ready to drop the whole tool chest on a…
There was Easter but no truce on Ukraine’s frontline
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region In a wooden Greek-Catholic church on the frontline of a warzone, encircled by red tulips and military…
How Pope Francis kept the faith
As timing goes, a pope simply can’t do better than to die just after Easter Sunday. The moral of the…
The Francis effect
Pope Francis was a man of remarkable complexity who cultivated an image of utmost simplicity. He began the moment he…
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…
Francis and the Vatican reckoning
Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites. John Paul II’s clarion call of ‘Be…
Let the prisoners cook
After Hashem Abedi allegedly attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil at HMP Frankland last weekend, there has been…
Keir Starmer’s Easter message wasn’t offensive
Fun though it is to bash Keir Starmer for everything he says or does, there’s surely a point at which…
