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Farage blasts Zelensky over Trump meeting
The extraordinary scenes that came from the White House on Friday were the talk of the weekend – and relations…
The fatal flaws in Trump’s crypto reserve plan
President Trump was very bullish about his decision over the weekend to create a ‘crypto reserve’. It will legitimise crypto…
Watch: Mandelson says Kyiv should back Trump plan
Oh dear. It has only been 22 days since Peter Mandelson formally became Britain’s Ambassador to Washington – and he…
A refreshingly apolitical Oscars
It is always nice to have a personal connection to the Oscars, however slight and fleeting it might be; hearing…
The man with the ‘golden arm’, who saved two million babies
James Harrison, who died in his sleep at a care home in Australia last month at the age of 88,…
The ‘goodies and baddies’ era of world politics is over
It’s hard to overstate just how shocking, how grotesque and shaming, was President Trump’s outburst against Ukraine’s President Zelensky in…
Why was there so little fanfare after David Johansen’s death?
We were twice transported back to the early 1970s this weekend, our memories snagged on the deaths of Roberta Flack…
Keir Starmer has had his best week since becoming Prime Minister
Even Keir Starmer’s fiercest detractors (and there are a fair few) must concede that he has had a very good…
What went wrong with The Archers?
I was once a fan of The Archers, to the extent that the Guardian quoted me in 2007 outlining how…
The copyright battle is only part of the AI war
Artificial intelligence (AI) really is the next industrial revolution. In fact, it’s already started, and the technology’s capability is developing…
King Charles offers his support to Zelensky
This weekend marks perhaps the most turbulent 48 hours that Ukraine’s President Zelensky has ever experienced – and, given the…
Starmer has his work cut out bringing peace to Ukraine
Keir Starmer today attempted to make the debate about Ukraine’s future one primarily held by Ukraine and European countries. This…
Watch: Starmer rejects SNP call to cancel Trump state visit
Well, you can’t say they don’t try. With Europe still reeling from Donald Trump’s oval office bust-up with Ukrainian president…
Starmer’s summit is high stakes for Zelensky
There is only one story dominating the news this weekend following Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting on Friday with the US…
Can South Korea fix its birth rate woes?
Month after month, it just kept plummeting. The South Korean birth rate last year earned the not-so-holy prize for being…
Why won’t supporters of assisted dying use the ‘s-word’?
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP in charge of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill currently going through its…
Why Henry Kelly was popular
For centuries the Irish in this country had been subject to mockery, derision and discrimination – even though there is…
Ireland is on a knife edge
Is Ireland a powder keg of racist, anti-immigrant sentiment, ready to explode at any moment? That was certainly the dominant…
Britain is reliving the 1970s
Is Britain going back to the 1970s? Even under the Conservatives in 2022, the Financial Times was warning we were…
Will the Gaza ceasefire collapse?
The end of February, which coincides with the start of Ramadan, was meant to mark the conclusion of the initial…
The troubling truth about ‘witchcraft’ in modern Britain
Witchcraft, and accusations of witchcraft, are returning to Britain. We might think of witchcraft as a thing of the past;…
Why even parts of Berlin are moving right
‘Berlin is more East than West’, said Thilo Sarrazin. A member of the centre-left SPD, in 2010 he published Germany…
What Europe can learn from the White House clash
The Trump-Zelensky summit is a geopolitical Rashomon. Some saw a lying, maniacal bully and his snarling sidekick berate a patriot…
Did Zelensky fail his nation?
Volodymyr Zelensky fought for Ukraine’s security guarantees so fiercely last night, it was as if he’d been invited to sign…
Can J.D. Vance be part of the peace talks?
Practically every aspect of that Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was surreal. The blow up at…
