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Can Arteta hold his nerve?
The second half of the Premier League season is brimming with stories and subplots. Hundreds of players are hoping to…
Keir Starmer is a populist who is bad at populism
For all his problems, Keir Starmer has never been a victim of high expectations. When he entered Downing Street in…
Can Germany be saved from itself?
Nine months into the chancellorship of Friedrich Merz, the outlook for Germany looks grim. The country’s economy, the world’s third…
Are more fathers about to lose access to their children?
It takes a strong stomach to confront the details of the way in which Claire Throssell’s two sons – Paul, nine,…
The truth about Britain’s claim to Greenland
Every time Donald Trump repeats his threats towards Greenland, a familiar claim does the rounds that the UK has ‘first…
The truth about Sandhurst
My friends were baffled. Why, at the age of 30, was I going back to school? And, worse, to an…
Trump’s Greenland caper will heighten inflation
On February 24, Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union speech of his second term as president.…
Farage turns on Tory MP over Mauritius
It seems that Nigel Farage has not taken too kindly to all Kemi Badenoch’s talk of ‘cleaning house’. The leader…
These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland
During his visit to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that he had a…
British people still hate the nanny state
In recent years a popular assumption has arisen in Britain that we are a nation of ‘curtain twitchers’ with an…
Trump slaps Britain with tariffs over Greenland
Donald Trump has announced that he will impose tariffs on goods from the UK, Denmark and other European countries. The…
Badenoch backs Starmer on Greenland
Leave it to Donald Trump to knock Robert Jenrick off the news cycle. The US President has not taken too…
Andy Burnham joins Hillsborough revolt
Can Keir Starmer get anything right? Just days after yet another U-turn on digital ID, it now seems that his…
What does loyalty mean in politics?
For David Cameron, there were two types of politician. Team players. Or tossers. Although he preferred a slightly saltier description…
Malcolm Offord must improve
The biggest beneficiary of Robert Jenrick’s defenestration and defection was neither Kemi Badenoch nor Nigel Farage but Malcolm Offord. He…
Why was the West Midlands Police chief allowed to retire?
Even as he resigned, Craig Guildford couldn’t do the decent thing. Perhaps that’s no surprise. We have learned in recent…
Cubans want Donald Trump to save them
The US capture of Nicholas Maduro sent a shockwave of fear through the regime in Havana. Heeding the words of…
Why England’s Ashes defeat is so painful
England’s most successful Ashes series Down Under for 15 years has somehow come to be seen as its most calamitous.…
Marine Le Pen is unstoppable
Marine Le Pen returned to court this week to contest her conviction last spring for misusing EU funds. Convicted of…
The London property market might be about to implode
First off, let me say: I’m a London property owner. It’s a pretty little flat, in a pleasant corner of…
Amid the bombs, life in Kyiv carries on as normal
How do you convey the oddness of Kyiv during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? The reality of living under the constant…
Child gangs are menacing Europe
Criminal networks are recruiting and tasking minors as paid operatives for shootings, bombings and contract killings. Europol, the law enforcement…
Now the cabinet guns for Wes Streeting
Oh dear. With the right in civil war, Keir Starmer might have thought his week was ending on a high,…
Jenrick’s defection strengthens both Kemi and Farage
What a week. Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform yesterday electrified Westminster and the fallout is still spreading. When our editor asked…
Why are the number of abortions so high?
Consider this: at a time when we’re agonising about the demographic winter and the unwillingness of Gen Z to procreate,…
