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The Sazerac: an old favorite… from New Orleans
As the Super Bowl rolled into New Orleans, with Kendrick Lamar and his flared jeans in tow, I was thinking…
Puerto Rico is bouncing back
If you like piña coladas – and I do – Puerto Rico will suit you just fine. The cocktail was…
Is Alsatian wine primarily French or German?
Among the minor aporia bedeviling the universe is a question about Alsatian wine. “What is it?” someone asks. “Wine from…
The hidden logic behind Trump’s market meltdown
Donald Trump’s announcement of huge levies on all the US’s major trading partners has triggered a global stock market meltdown,…
David Lammy’s imperial overreach
With the imperial pomposity of an old colonial governor, David Lammy has ‘made clear’ to the Israelis that denying entry to Labour MPs Abtisam…
Musk blasts Trump’s ‘moron’ trade adviser
Elon Musk strikes again! The tech billionaire and co-leader of Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has lashed out for…
Starmer takes a pop at OBR over welfare forecast
To the Commons, where Prime Minister Keir Starmer is speaking to the Liaison Committee before the House rises for Easter…
Have we really brought dire wolves back from extinction?
A biotech company claims it has facilitated the first howl of the dire wolf (an extinct canine) heard for 10,000…
Britain doesn’t need yet another equalities quango
Labour has evidently not learned from its recent troubles with the Sentencing Council over guidelines which risked undermining the very…
Is the worst of the market crash over?
The FTSE-100 is up by a couple of hundred points. Germany’s DAX has added 400 points, and in Tokyo the…
Russia can’t escape the fallout of Trump’s tariff war
When Donald Trump unveiled his table of tariffs in Washington last week, there was one country that was conspicuously absent…
China won’t win its ‘fight to the end’ against Trump
China has accused Washington of ‘blackmail’ and said it will ‘fight to the end’ after Donald Trump threatened overnight to…
I’m not surprised crack is being smoked on the Victoria Line
Very little surprises me about Sadiq Khan’s London anymore. It’s now a city in which low-level lawlessness is implicitly tolerated…
Parliament will be relieved Philip Green has lost his human rights case
In a decision that will be welcomed by many in Parliament today, the European Court of Human Rights dismissed a…
Why tariffs work
To travel by train through America’s rustbelt is to witness the real reason for Trump’s tariff revolution. Miles upon miles…
Prince Harry: I was ‘singled out’ in security row
The monarch of Montecito is, er, back in the UK. Prince Harry has returned to Britain for a two-day hearing…
The cringeworthiness of showing Adolescence in schools
It’s not even a month since Adolescence ‘dropped’ on to Netflix and into all our lives, whether we actually watched…
The true purpose of King Charles’s Italy trip
After some recent bad news for King Charles in the form of an – admittedly fleeting – setback in his…
Tories lose major donor prompting HQ closure fears
Just as the House of Commons is about to rise for Easter recess, Her Majesty’s Official Opposition has been hit…
Is the ‘Office for Value for Money’ just another quango?
Who can possibly be against any attempt by any government of any political colour to get better value of money?…
Hamas has a history of using ambulances for war
Before the facts had even settled, western media outlets rendered their verdict: Israel was guilty. Guilty of deliberately targeting ambulances.…
Trump is tearing up the Old World Order – as promised
Seems there is a bit of ruckus on the stock markets of the largest capitalist country in the world, the…
The crash is not as bad as it seems
It’s that moment of supreme uncertainty. We do however know the question. Is this a regular sell-off, with the S&P500…
Canada is more conservative than politicians think
Finally, some good news for Canada’s Conservative party. For the first time since the federal election was announced, a poll…
The punishment of Lucy Connolly
The shocking case of Lucy Connolly is becoming a cause célèbre. In October, the Northampton childminder and wife of a…
