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Takeout with Woody, Soon-Yi and Epstein
The more salacious aspects of the Epstein files are well known – but what of the banal side of being…
Mandelson got five-figure sacking payoff
It’s a tough time for the nation’s finances – but don’t worry, one man is doing ok. Lord Mandelson received…
Why Gen Z is troubled by Jesus
Many teenagers today find Christianity off-putting because Jesus seems too fond of ‘mansplaining’. He appears to have a ‘God complex’,…
The UK is punishing dual-nationals like me
Clearing customs at Heathrow is about to get a lot more demanding for people like me. Hundreds of thousands of…
There’s untapped gold in Northern Ireland
As anyone familiar with Irish folklore knows, it’s a fool’s errand to look for Leprechaun gold at the end of…
The Mandelson scandal is far grubbier than the Profumo affair
The pundits are convinced that Peter Mandelson’s friendship with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is the ‘biggest British political scandal since…
The miracle of India’s railways
‘Because it is the Indian Railways that makes India.’ When I have a loquacious personnel officer declare this in my…
There will be few politicians like Jeane Freeman again
There is no shortage of noise in contemporary politics, nor of people keen to confuse it with authority. Jeane Freeman,…
Inside Texas’s messy Senate primaries
There used to be a political designation in the South of “Yellow Dog Democrats,” meaning voters who’d vote for a yellow dog if…
Why centrists have an anger problem
There is an argument that the (further) disgrace of Peter Mandelson has been magnified out of all proportion. Mandelson was fired from…
Pakistan’s terror problem is of its own making
At least 31 were killed and over 170 wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a Shia mosque in Islamabad on…
Palestine Action and the limits of jury justice
Five out of six Palestine Action protesters on trial in relation to a break-in at the Elbit Systems factory in…
Was the raid on Venezuela real?
From the very start, there was something weird about Operation Absolute Resolve. The official story went something like this: after…
The hard work of elephant conservation is paying off
The death of Craig the elephant, one of Africa’s last great ‘super tuskers’, at the beginning of the year was…
The words that could – and should – doom Starmer
The current Labour government, those ‘adults…back in the room,’ are now the UK’s unofficial Party of Sleaze. In the wake…
A day with Bristol’s van dwellers
Four weeks since a caravan was torched on Goodneston Road in north-east Bristol, and still no one has bothered to…
Why so many autistic children no longer go to school
Louis, 9, rocks back and forth. He can draw the solar system and place every planet on it, but he…
Can Nigel Farage save the great British pub?
Good morning from behind the bar, where the beer is still pouring – just. So far this year I have…
Who’s the victim in Zohran Mamdani’s New York?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a hospital visit to comfort the victim of a knife attack on a police officer, who…
The growing conservatism of the Democrats
Kamala Harris is destined to be the Democratic nominee in 2028 because the American left is now conservative. Democratic politics…
Labour has bottled it – what happens next?
Where are we then, after the most consequential week in British politics since the last one? Keir Starmer no longer…
Kamala’s comeback?
Political candidates aren’t people these days so much as brand logos for the business of politics. Their stock – the…
Starlink has dealt a huge blow to the Russian army
It is remarkable how heavily the Russian army has relied on western technology during a war it claims to be…
What Spain’s social media ban gets wrong
Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez is proposing a ban on under-16s using social media, following the example set by…
Who shot Russia’s intelligence chief in Moscow?
One of Russia’s top military generals, Vladimir Alekseev, is in a critical condition after being shot while leaving his Moscow…
