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France could pay a heavy price for Macron’s Liz Truss-attack on Le Pen
As Emmanuel Macron heads into a fraught election, France’s president is repeatedly warning voters of the calamitous consequences of electing…
The Tory party’s sums don’t add up
There is, to put it mildly, a lack of candour in this election campaign when it comes to tax rises…
Labour should learn from Jacinda Ardern’s calamitous oil and gas ban
In the UK, the Labour party has pledged to halt any new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea,…
The terrible consequences of the Hay Festival grandstanding
Just three weeks ago, I wrote about Hay Festival sacking their main sponsor Baillie Gifford after pressure from the campaign group…
Why the French left hate Macron as much as Le Pen
Over a quarter of a million people marched through France on Saturday and I was among their ranks as an…
It’s hard to feel confident after England’s underwhelming win over Serbia
Football hooliganism made an ugly return to the Euros just hours before England‘s opening Group C match against Serbia. There…
Poland 1–2 Netherlands
Poland’s manager, Michael Probierz, wore a shapeless tweed-ish suit with bulging waistcoat and, when the Dutch scored their winner, had…
Is France’s left-wing coalition more dangerous than Le Pen?
French and international media cannot break their fixation with the ‘extreme right’. They continue to target the Rassemblement National (RN)…
Sunday shows round-up: Streeting says Tories are ‘arsonists’
Wes Streeting: ‘Do not give the matches back to the arsonist’ On Sky News this morning, Shadow Health Secretary Wes…
Will Keir Starmer really hire 6,500 more teachers?
Perhaps Keir Starmer’s only solid election pledge is to use the money from VAT on private school fees to ‘hire…
Inside the world’s first museum of homelessness
I’m sitting in a small, cramped room with 20 other people staring at a stick. Not just any stick, mind:…
AI will change everything – so why is the election ignoring it?
Imagine if you somehow knew a war was coming in the next few years. Imagine if you knew this war would…
‘For the first time ever I might not vote’: East Renfrewshire’s voters are switching off
The SNP has dominated Scotland since 2015. In an election held just months after the independence referendum, the country turned…
Rachel Reeves ‘£4,800’ mortgage claim is a house of cards
Labour’s Rachel Reeves has scored some political points this week by claiming that the Conservatives have made £71 billion of…
How the liberal-left can fight woke ideology
There is a leftist case against woke ideology. It’s rare to hear it because it flies against many preconceptions and…
Patience is running out with Nato in the Baltic states
You can’t miss the vast banner emblazoned on the high-rise building overlooking central Vilnius. It reads: PUTIN, THE HAGUE IS…
Are we losing the American dad?
Over the past weeks, a cadre of young men has spent their days marching across the quad, demanding an end…
The Joe Biden Shuffle defines the G7
Things are always worse than they seem. That adage may seem amusingly cynical, but that is only because it is…
The reassuring appearance of the Princess of Wales
In any other year, the major story of the Trooping the Colour would be how grim and unseasonal the wet,…
Cosying up to the EU would do Britain more harm than good
If anyone thought our relations with the EU since the Brexit referendum would be a respectful dialogue of equals, they…
David Cameron is driving voters into Farage’s arms
Who on earth at Tory campaign HQ thought it was a good idea to send Lord Cameron into battle to…
Will Gary Lineker be able to keep his election thoughts quiet during the Euros?
It is hard to imagine the European football championship, which kicked off last night, was a big factor in Rishi…
The Euros couldn’t come at a worse time for Germany
Like many Germans, I remember the summer of 2006 with fondness. We hosted the football World Cup, and for a…
How London’s Docklands became the Eton of the crime world
When Hatton Garden Heist ‘mastermind’ Brian Reader died aged 84 in 2023, it was estimated that he had made £200…
‘Terrible but magnificent’: the life and times of playwright John Osborne
With the news the Almeida Theatre is to stage John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger this Autumn as…
