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Will the NHS step count app get people back to work?

9 March 2024 12:37 am

Is there really any point to the NHS app monitoring people’s step count? This is the latest announcement from Health…

What May’s departure reveals about the Tory party

8 March 2024 11:57 pm

The tributes are pouring in for Theresa May after the former prime minister announced that she will be stepping down…

Will Erdogan ever get to grips with Turkey’s sky-high inflation?

8 March 2024 9:43 pm

Inflation and the cost-of-living crisis dominates the agenda in Turkey, ahead of local elections at the end of March. Year-on-year…

Iran is making a mockery of the US

8 March 2024 9:22 pm

Three sailors have been killed and four seriously wounded after the Houthis attacked the True Confidence merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden…

Macron’s war-mongering talk is unnerving Europe

8 March 2024 7:06 pm

Relations between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have always been strained but they’re now positively hostile.…

Biden’s angry State of the Union address

8 March 2024 6:09 pm

President Joe Biden compared himself to presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, and his Republican opponents to Hitler, Nazis and…

Theresa May to quit parliament at the election

8 March 2024 5:56 pm

Another one bites the dust. Theresa May has today become the 60th Tory MP to announce she is standing down…

Will the mystery of MH370 ever be solved?

8 March 2024 5:00 pm

Ten years ago today, on 8 March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, en-route to Beijing…

Justin Trudeau, am I guilty of pre-crime?

8 March 2024 5:00 pm

Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the internet, intended it to be a place for everyone. But now the web…

Biden rails against ‘predecessor’ in partisan State of the Union speech

8 March 2024 3:31 pm

President Joe Biden has shamelessly abandoned his chief campaign promise to unite the country. It became clear quickly into his…

Peers back vote on foreign state press ownership

8 March 2024 9:01 am

Rishi Sunak has tonight been urged to support an amendment in the House of Lords which would give parliament a…

A make-or-break State of the Union for Biden

8 March 2024 8:37 am

Tonight President Joe Biden is set to deliver one of what may be his final major speeches as president: the…

Zelensky’s sacked army chief posted to London

8 March 2024 8:32 am

When Ukrainian war hero Valery Zaluzhny was fired as the head of the military a month ago, all talk was on what…

‘You’re fired’ – watch Trump’s prebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union speech

8 March 2024 8:17 am

In a few hours, Joe Biden will deliver what could be his final State of the Union address as President.…

Does Nike hate the military?

8 March 2024 2:36 am

Nike — named after the Greek goddess of victory — is seemingly too scared to be associated with US armed…

The catalogue of errors that left Joshua Jacques free to kill

8 March 2024 2:24 am

The horror of the crimes of Joshua Jacques, who murdered his girlfriend and three members of her family in south…

Could Jeremy Hunt actually abolish National Insurance?

8 March 2024 12:24 am

Could Jeremy Hunt really abolish employee National Insurance (NI)? His additional 2p cut announced in yesterday’s Budget seems to be…

Papers deliver verdict on ‘fiscal drag queen’s’ Budget

7 March 2024 11:08 pm

Jeremy Hunt is facing a day of reckoning after announcing the Budget on Wednesday. The Chancellor framed his statement as…

Who could object to a Muslim war memorial?

7 March 2024 9:39 pm

I don’t understand right-wingers who spend most of their time on the internet. Often they’re found tut-tutting over what they…

Men don’t belong in Hampstead Ladies’ Pond

7 March 2024 5:00 pm

The waters of Hampstead ladies’ pond are this week, it seems, more troubled than ever. Last Sunday, amidst cries of…

Britain is too sick

7 March 2024 5:38 am

Britain is running out of workers. The UK population may be growing, but the share of that population that is…

The revolution has devoured AOC

7 March 2024 5:21 am

Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the super-progressive congresswoman, was leaving the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn with her fiancé when she was confronted by…

Haley is out. How can Trump pick up her voters?

7 March 2024 3:43 am

In the end, the lesson of Nikki Haley’s run is that Donald Trump defeated every wing of the Republican Party…

Britain’s worklessness disaster

7 March 2024 3:11 am

Whilst Jeremy Hunt’s cut to National Insurance may grab the headlines, the real story of today’s Budget was hidden in…

What Hunt’s ‘tax-cutting’ Budget didn’t mention

7 March 2024 3:06 am

Can the Tory party now credibly claim it is cutting taxes? That was the big mystery going into Jeremy Hunt’s…