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Did Keir Starmer’s voice coach really count as a Covid ‘key worker’?
Who knew that being a voice coach qualified for ‘key worker’ status during the pandemic lockdowns? It has been revealed…
Why Donald Trump should care about Georgia
President Trump hasn’t just inherited the problem of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Somewhere in the handover is a memo on…
Why are we obsessed with Japanese fiction?
Imagine you come across a small café in a back alley of Tokyo where you can travel back in time…
Yvette Cooper: ‘We’re not returning to the EU. We need to move on’
Ahead of Keir Starmer’s meeting with European leaders tomorrow, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper joined Sky News and reiterated Labour’s ‘red…
Should the West be worried about DeepSeek’s ‘Sputnik moment’?
My late mother proudly possessed a curious object: a tea cosy decorated with the image of a Sputnik. In 1957,…
Donald Trump kicks off the tariff wars
He did it, Joe! Following on from the $79 billion worth of tariffs he implemented in his first term –…
Kim Jong Un’s North Korean culture war
If there’s one thing that a despot wants, it is to stay in power. North Korea’s totalitarian Supreme Leader, Kim…
Why can’t Germany kick its addiction to Russian energy?
Despite imposing economic sanctions on Russia, the European Union has been importing record amounts of liquefied natural gas (LNG), a…
What Luis Rubiales’s trial will reveal
The trial of Luis Rubiales, former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, starts in Madrid on Monday. After Spain…
Immigrants won’t fix Britain’s baby crisis
The fertility rate of foreign-born women is almost a third higher than that of UK-born women, according to new analysis. And yet, even the foreign-born…
Are Syria’s Christians safe?
On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their…
Liz Kendall’s benefits crusade could make or break Labour’s fortunes
Could Liz Kendall turn out to be the most significant figure of Keir Starmer’s government, and a Chancellor in the…
Iran’s Donald Trump dilemma
To talk or not to talk? This is the slogan that’s doing the rounds among the Islamic Republic of Iran’s…
Germany’s crumbling far-right firewall could turbocharge the AfD
Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats, stumbled in his bid to end Social Democrat-Greens domination of migration policy.…
How many more knife attacks can France take?
Each day in France there are 120 knife attacks. On Saturday, one such incident resulted in the death of 14-year-old…
Myanmar’s plight shames the West
Four years ago, Myanmar’s fragile, nascent quasi-democracy was snuffed out after less than a decade of experimenting with limited reform…
Why we should heed warnings about weight loss jabs
Embarking on the quest to lose weight can be a risky business. Yo-yo dieting, compulsive binging, muscle wasting and brain…
In defence of Slough
In the 1930s, Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem calling for bombs to fall on it, in 2001 David Brent…
Iran’s Donald Trump dilemma
To talk or not to talk? This is the slogan that’s doing the rounds among the Islamic Republic of Iran’s…
Doctor Who fans – and its writers – need to grow up
Doctor Who, which started back in 1963, is often spoken about with a curious reverence as though it were something…
What Kim Jones’s departure means for Dior
Last Friday afternoon, amid the menswear shows for Paris Fashion Week, a crowd of influencers, shoppers, celebrities and fashion journalists…
Media partisans weaponize plane crash tragedy
For the past several years, the air traffic I see out the windows of my office has been constant —…
Channel 4’s diversity hypocrisy
Some good news for the BBC: for once it’s not them causing bad headlines. Today’s latest shining example in public…
The Sara Sharif family court judges should have been named far sooner
There is something of an anti-climax in the naming of the judges involved in the Sara Sharif case. It’s true that…
Nats blast Humza in ministerial interview series
Uh oh. There’s more trouble in nationalist paradise. A series of interviews with past and present Scottish government ministers have…
