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Does the Prime Minister believe in the Rwanda scheme?

8 January 2024 12:09 am

Does Rishi Sunak believe in Rwanda? An election year has begun, with Rishi Sunak still struggling in the polls and…

What do Munroe Bergdorf and Andrew Tate have in common?

7 January 2024 9:48 pm

For inadequate men scared by self-willed women, by the start of the 21st century, things were getting dangerously out of hand. The old right-wing ‘Kinder, Küche,…

Russia’s egg shortage is panicking Putin

7 January 2024 9:02 pm

The fall of the house of the Romanovs in 1917 may have been a long time coming, but arguably it…

Keir Starmer says it best when he says nothing at all

7 January 2024 5:30 pm

There is a modern country music standard called ‘When You Say Nothing At All’. The song, taken to the top…

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Why German farmers are taking on the ruling coalition

7 January 2024 5:30 pm

He wanted to get away from it all. The splendid solitude of the tiny North Sea island of Hooge was…

Is Japan finally embracing immigration?

7 January 2024 5:30 pm

Japan has long been known for its steadfast refusal to submit to the allure of large-scale immigration, as a country…

The dark side of Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina

7 January 2024 5:00 pm

Politics in Bangladesh is very much a one-woman show, starring prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country for…

Why hasn’t Russia collapsed?

7 January 2024 5:00 pm

Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the calamitous, early missteps of the Russian army, many Western…

The sad world of the online influencer

6 January 2024 10:26 pm

Walid Sharks is taking a nasty beating at the AO Arena in Manchester. It’s the second round of his fight against…

George Floyd was no martyr

6 January 2024 6:00 pm

To write that George Floyd died is to take a position. The received belief is that he was murdered – a murder bigger, in…

Russia is still very much a security threat inside the UK

6 January 2024 5:30 pm

At 1.30 p.m. on 7 September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident and BBC journalist, approached a bus stop at the…

Who cares about the FA Cup?

6 January 2024 5:00 pm

The third round of the FA Cup, underway this weekend, is one of the highlights of the football calendar –…

The Reform party is just another Thatcherite redux

6 January 2024 3:59 am

What exactly does the Reform party stand for? Helpfully, its leader Richard Tice gave a press conference on Wednesday at which he…

Biden’s phony January 6 memorialization

6 January 2024 3:13 am

It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, January 5, the president will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to…

Why the left poses a greater threat to American civic order

6 January 2024 1:59 am

Over a leg of lamb, I joined five other expat Americans for Christmas. Our topic du jour was which faction in our…

The trouble with Armando Iannucci

6 January 2024 12:56 am

Armando Iannucci is a bit of a mystery to me. With shows like The Day Today and The Thick of It, he created…

When will Rory Stewart’s time come?

5 January 2024 11:44 pm

Can a dose of moral earnestness revive Tory fortunes? This is the question raised by Rory Stewart’s recent memoir, Politics…

Oscar Pistorius should still be in prison

5 January 2024 10:53 pm

The murderer Oscar Pistorius was released from prison on parole today, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva…

Biden’s cynical attempt to memorialise 6 January

5 January 2024 7:51 pm

It’s fright month in Joe Biden’s America, folks. Today, 5 January, the US President will travel to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,…

Claudine Gay may be gone, but the issues on campus remain

5 January 2024 3:55 am

Claudine, we hardly knew ye. Gay’s tenure atop Harvard was the shortest in that university’s history. Yet it was still…

In defence of ‘fat cat’ chief executives

5 January 2024 3:30 am

Are chief executives overpaid? The High Pay Centre thinks so. Every January, it releases data showing the huge inequality between…

Sunak plays it safe with election announcement

5 January 2024 3:21 am

Rishi Sunak is – not unusually – playing it safe by saying his ‘working assumption’ is that the election will…

When will Nigel Farage get off the fence?

5 January 2024 1:15 am

Nigel Farage’s indecision continues. Despite being hyped in advance as a major unveiling of the rebel party’s programme, Reform UK’s…

Sunak says his ‘working assumption’ is no spring election

5 January 2024 12:01 am

Rishi Sunak has this afternoon given his strongest hint yet that the next general election will be held in the…

The Epstein files heap fresh embarrassment on Prince Andrew

4 January 2024 11:18 pm

Four days in, and 2024 shows every sign of being yet another annus horribilis for Prince Andrew. After – by…