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Meghan and Harry have given the Royal Family a fresh headache
Twice in the past week, I’ve heard controversial figures say the words ‘It’s good to be back’, or some close…
Labour now needs to walk the walk on teaching kids ‘oracy’
They say that interests and trends in education come and go in cycles: the faddish focus on ‘learning styles’; the…
Is welfare really the only offer to Britain’s left-behind regions?
Nearly one in six British adults – 6.7 million people – are now claiming out-of-work benefits. In over 3,300 neighbourhoods,…
The West needs a coherent plan for tackling Iran’s proxies
Saudi missiles hit the Houthi-controlled Yemen Petroleum Company’s al-Sabaha facility near the Yemeni capital of Sana’a on Tuesday night. The Saudi…
The glorious spectacle of Timothy Miller wearing a burka
Crack open the warm bitter. Dust down the bunting. Put Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ on repeat. For at last we have something…
Labour finally turns on the Greens
Labour finally found some gumption today as it ramped up its attacks on the Greens’ anti-Semitic ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy.…
The flaw in the regulator’s plan to stop club football going bust
The Independent Football Regulator has published its first report into the state of English football, and it has told the…
Is London at ‘peak bedbug’?
Train drivers are refusing to board infested trains. Guardian staff are working from home after an eight-month outbreak. Pest control firms are inundated with calls from Islington and…
Watch: Burnham scrambles as Man City meetings pile up
The Andy Burnham–Manchester City saga continues today, with the Prime Minister ordering a ‘manual trawl’ to uncover any more mysteriously…
St Andrews rector race turns into Monty Python sketch
Just when you thought universities – and Scottish politics – couldn’t become any more of a joke, Mr S is…
The SNP has tough decisions to make on defence
A few months ago, Colonel Alistair Scott Carns DSO, OBE, MC, RMR, MP was the talk of Westminster as a…
Did this literary prizewinner really use AI? I’m sceptical
This unusual year for literary prize organisers has taken a further twist. In recent months, the Commonwealth Prize and the…
Labour must rethink the Hillsborough law
The enactment of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, more commonly known as the Hillsborough law, is set to make a…
Sally Rooney and an unexpected upside of the Palestine Action ban
The advice on which former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper based her proscription of Palestine Action has never been published. My…
Britain’s economy is growing – but Labour could soon stop that
Britain’s economy has surprised again. GDP grew 0.1 per cent in August, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).…
Revealed: Nato’s plan to combat Russia
Amidst all the ‘Sturm und Drang’ of Donald Trump’s White House and Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, a quietly competent and confident…
Trump’s shattered relationship with Zelensky may be beyond repair
From the moment Donald Trump announced last week that he had struck a deal with Vladimir Putin for exports of…
Cormac McCarthy has an important lesson for today’s statesman
“In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in…
WFH has turned the public sector into an economic deadweight
I always rather admired the airline pilot who managed to keep two marriages going, one on either side of the…
Is the Traitors racist?
When Industry actress Myha’la was kicked off Celebrity Traitors this week, she did not appear to take her exit very…
Burnham’s Man City meetings mount up
Dear oh dear. Andy Burnham’s claim that he met senior Manchester City figures on just one ‘significant’ occasion is unravelling…
Azerbaijan’s hijab ban has infuriated Turkey
There are few countries in the world with relations as close as Turkey and Azerbaijan. The two countries hail from…
Sunak rakes in the speaking circuit cash
Rishi Sunak has raked in a tidy £303,000 for just two speaking engagements this month, the latest register of MPs’…
An online tax crackdown is a mistake
When he presents his first Budget later this month, Chancellor John Healey won’t have many ‘bash the rich’ or ‘hammer…
Burnham isn’t as tedious as Starmer. But he’s getting there
Both Kemi Badenoch and Andy Burnham had their tails up at Prime Minister’s Questions today. The two main party leaders…
