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Emma Raducanu’s critics need to pipe down
Those taking a pop at tennis star Emma Raducanu for her last-minute decision to withdraw from a mixed-doubles match alongside…
The troubling truth about Keir Starmer
‘A politics that treads more lightly on all our lives.’ That’s what Keir Starmer – remarkably, our new Prime Minister –…
Après Macron, le déluge
France is voting after three weeks of campaigning, backstabbing, attacks on more than 50 politicians so far, some light rioting,…
My day in Le Pen land
At first glance, for the visitor driving by, Guingamp in northwest Brittany looks idyllic. It is a typically lovely stone-built…
The thrill of the Pamplona bull run
The first time my friend Rob and I experienced Pamplona’s San Fermin festival was in 2017. Held every year from…
Keir Starmer is leaning on experienced ministerial hands
Keir Starmer waited for the football to finish before announcing his latest tranche of ministerial appointments. A few of them…
Labour should be wary of Macron’s cooing
French president Emmanuel Macron has phoned Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his appointment as prime minister. Macron’s Twitter…
What ‘tough decisions’ does Starmer have in mind?
How long will Keir Starmer’s honeymoon last? The Prime Minister is basking in election glory after leading his party to…
Will James Timpson be a radical prisons minister?
The most interesting and unexpected appointment in Keir Starmer’s government is that of James Timpson, the CEO of Timpson, who…
Labour should ignore the Lib Dems on social care
Politics is a goldfish bowl, and not in the sense that it’s small and everyone is watching you intensely. It’s…
Keir Starmer appoints lawyer who represented Gerry Adams
Since becoming leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer has faced plenty of scrutiny about his career as a human…
What will David Lammy’s ‘gear shift’ mean?
Next summer, David Lammy will celebrate 25 years as a Member of Parliament. At 51, he has just been appointed…
How Biden’s bad debate exposed the legacy media
The American media is in a credibility crisis following President Biden’s car-crash debate performance last week. How is it that…
Joe Biden’s ABC interview won’t help his doomed campaign
Like a father confessor, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos tried everything to jolt President Joe Biden out of his complacency. He…
What did the Tories do with power?
Fourteen years of Tory-led government is over. The second-longest period of dominance by one party since the war is done.…
Ed Miliband will be a liability as energy secretary
I know it has only just begun, but it is not too early to start wondering: what will it be…
Macron’s France has much to learn from Britain’s peaceful election
The left-wing French newspaper Le Monde last month sent its London correspondent across Great Britain to gauge the mood before…
Would Rishi Sunak really be welcome in Silicon Valley?
Rishi Sunak’s bags are probably packed. The plane tickets are booked. And no doubt he has found somewhere for the…
Joe Biden’s interview with George Stephanopoulos could have been worse
Joe Biden didn’t make any major mistakes in his Friday interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. That’s the best you can…
Streeting declares: ‘the NHS is broken’
Wes Streeting has just given a striking statement on arrival at the Department of Health and Social Care in which…
How Keir Starmer can make it up to Rosie Duffield
Congratulations to Rosie Duffield, who has won re-election for a third time as Labour MP for Canterbury. For many women…
Keir Starmer channeled Obama in his first Downing Street speech
In his first speech from the Downing Street lectern, Sir Keir Starmer was setting out to reaffirm those qualities that…
Meet Labour’s elite Scottish MPs
Scottish Labour has won 37 of the 57 seats north of the border, an increase of 36 on the 2019…
The election has left Irish unionism in crisis
The voters of Northern Ireland are used to being an impenetrable afterthought to most mainstream commentators in Britain. The general…
What Keir Starmer’s first Downing Street speech reveals
Keir Starmer has given his first speech as prime minister. Labour’s seventh leader to make it to 10 Downing Street…
