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Why Netanyahu is being blamed for the Israeli hostage deaths
The heartbreaking news that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages has caused rage…
The ICC is right to pursue Benjamin Netanyahu
On 20 May, ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan tried to push the borders of the ‘permissible’. In an extraordinary rebuke of…
The Irish elite are terrifyingly out of touch
For the average member of the Irish political, media and NGO complex there are several political issues in Ireland which…
How Labour should deal with China
Keir Starmer’s geopolitical in-tray will arguably be one of the most daunting in recent history. The Prime Minister faces a…
The cynical manipulation of ‘dynamic pricing’ for Oasis tickets
Given my unequivocal feelings about the Oasis reunion, I was, apparently, one of the few people in Britain who was not attempting…
A four-day week is bad news for workers
When I was a young reporter on the Daily Express in the 1980s I was sent to Belfast to cover…
How to end the Tory leadership chaos cycle
In the eight years since David Cameron resigned as prime minister, the Conservatives have had four different leaders. Soon it…
The Venezuelan practice of property invasions has emigrated to America
Viral footage showing armed Venezuelan gang members taking over an apartment complex in a Denver suburb has shocked thousands, especially…
The US should sanction the ICC
The actions of the International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor, Karim Khan, will deprive Israel of its sovereignty and undermine the…
Tottenham’s ‘Yid Army’ chant isn’t antisemitic
‘They tried to stop us and look what it did. The thing I love most is being a yid.’ So…
Oasis’s reunion is a moment of joy – but I won’t be buying tickets
As someone who was around pop stars from a very young age, I’m not inclined to get over-excited about them.…
Keir Starmer’s popularity delusion
All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm…
Why are people so shocked that Starmer isn’t perfect?
The 1997 Christmas special of The Mrs Merton Show probably doesn’t feature in many people’s formative political memories, but it…
Jess Phillips must explain her two-tier NHS Gaza claim
Forget two-tier policing – we need to talk about two-tier healthcare. Jess Phillips, Labour MP and Home Office minister, has…
Police probe senior civil servant over Salmond inquiry
As the SNP conference weekend kicks off, another Scottish story is starting to take shape. It has emerged that detectives…
Will Priti Patel’s ‘unity’ pitch succeed?
Priti Patel’s Tory leadership launch in Westminster this afternoon was an upbeat affair, featuring mango lassi and a tonne of…
John Swinney is leading the SNP to oblivion
As the SNP gathers for its conference in Edinburgh this weekend, its membership nearly halved from a peak of 125,691,…
Windsor doesn’t deserve to be subjected to Extinction Rebellion
Pray for Windsor. From today, Extinction Rebellion is descending on Windsor Home Park for ‘three days of creative, peaceful action to propose…
Jess Phillips: I got better NHS treatment because of my Gaza stance
To the new Labour government, where the spotlight is on Jess Phillips and her rather extraordinary revelation. It transpires that…
Why Labour’s four-day week plan could backfire
Employees will have the right to ask their employers to compress their hours into four days a week rather than…
The Harris-Walz CNN interview offered voters no clarity
I hate to use the Democratic Party’s favorite word against them, but the Harris-Walz tag-team interview on CNN was… well,…
‘France killed my husband’ – the rising anger of the gendarmes
A gendarme was killed in France on Monday evening when a driver ran him over at a routine roadside checkpoint in…
Sue Gray at centre of yet another civil service job row
Another day, another Sue Gray-related drama. Now Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff has come under fire over yet another…
Shanshan may be the strongest typhoon in Japanese history
The Japanese are battening down the hatches – again – as typhoon Shanshan wreaks devastation to the south-west of the country, with…
Skiing, sushi and hot springs in the Japanese Alps
Nozawa Onsen and Hakuba, my favorite ski resorts near Tokyo, are booking up fast. A trip to Japan guarantees novelty,…
