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Treasury silent on Chagos deal costs
How much does a sell-out cost? Mr S has been trying for months now to work out what the Chagos…
Is Pope Francis Rory Stewart in a frock?
Imagine living in your own holy fiefdom, with some of the strictest security on earth, and lecturing other nations about…
Will flattery buy Zelensky help from Trump?
For all the efforts on every side to manage expectations, there is a sense that some kind of Ukraine deal…
The police vetting system is a mess
Picture the scene: the press conference room at New Scotland Yard in March 2023 – just after the publication of…
Labour MP: keep illegal migrants because of Paddington
Desperate times call for desperate measures seems to the mantra of the day in Labour HQ. First a foreign office…
Cheaper mortgages won’t save Britain from recession
Electricity bills are going up. Netflix is adding a couple of pounds a month to the price of a standard…
Why whisky may be worse for you than cocaine
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has hit out at the longstanding US ban on cocaine, in response to Donald Trump’s crackdown…
Why is Jean-Luc Melenchon talking about the ‘Great Replacement’ theory?
Jean-Luc Melenchon has broken a taboo in French, and Western, politics. The de facto leader of the French left, whose…
Labour minister: Cede Chagos to avoid war
Just when you think Labour’s Chagos saga can’t get any stranger, it does. Now foreign minister Stephen Doughty has claimed…
Strict schools are sapping the joy out of learning
When it comes to behaviour policies, schools have fallen into two extremes. Across the border in Scotland, schools practise ‘restorative…
Israel faces an agonising decision
In those awful first weeks after 7 October, someone came up with a slogan that was taken as a rallying…
What Gen Z gets wrong about ‘racist’ Britain
Nearly half of Generation Z believes that Britain is a racist country, and a similar proportion say that they aren’t…
Trump has backed Hamas into a corner
Donald Trump’s second meeting with a foreign leader in the Oval Office – this time with King Abdullah of Jordan…
Could Russian sanctions soon be lifted?
Markets are rife with rumours of impending talks between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on a ceasefire for the…
Syria’s civil war is far from over
In recent years, the green plains of Idlib province have seen some of the heaviest fighting in Syria’s protracted civil…
Red states sue New York for punitive climate change bill
In what could find itself deemed a new “war of Northern Aggression,” West Virginia and twenty-one other states are looking…
The question that should be asked about the West Bank
In all the argle-bargle over Donald Trump’s proposal for Gaza, there have been countless questions about legality, morality and feasibility.…
Elon Musk’s critics are more autistic than he ever could be
I’ve managed to keep most of my liberal family relationships and friendships intact, even after going public about voting for…
Watch: Sue Gray enters the Lords
And there we have it. Baroness Gray of Tottenham has entered the House of Lords. Sir Keir’s former chief of…
Is this London’s most anti-car borough?
In a city at war with the car, there’s plenty of competition. Lambeth has hiked the cost of residents’ parking…
What will happen to Hamas’s tunnels?
Even if the third phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal is successfully completed and all hostages, alive and dead, are…
Vance is right, Europe is smothering AI
They won’t have liked the message or the messenger. With characteristic bluntness, the American vice president J. D. Vance tore…
Reform support surges to new high, poll shows
Another day, another positive poll result for Reform. The latest Westminster voting intention poll from YouGov shows Nigel Farage’s party…
Why has Labour dropped so many NHS targets?
Does the Labour government still care about mental health? Recently, it dropped its NHS targets for mental health, along with…
Why President Trump wants to build US icebreakers
There is an “icebreaker gap” between Russia and the United States. For decades, the Soviet Union and now Russia have…
