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The BBC should admit its mistake and get Lineker back
While sports fans this morning are discussing why the entire England rugby team backed Gary Lineker by choosing not to…
Could Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse lead to a financial crash?
Tech start-ups tend to involve taking big risks on ideas which are untested both in terms of technology and the…
Jeremy Hunt defends the Tories’ long-term economic record
A Chancellor’s Sunday media appearance before a Budget often serves as a ‘free pass’ – not because difficult questions aren’t…
Match of the Day viewing figures rise without Gary Lineker
Oh dear. This wasn’t how it was meant to go. After Gary Lineker was forced to ‘step back’ from presenting…
Jeremy Hunt will have to rescue Silicon Valley Bank’s London clients
It will be yet another bailout for failed bankers. It will simply encourage yet more risk-taking in the City. It…
Match of the Day without Gary Lineker was oddly soothing
Well, did you enjoy MOTD? Did you miss Gary? Thanks to, let’s just say ‘circumstances’, we were able to take…
The war over the womb
The womb, that secretive house of early life, is coming under the spotlight. For a long time it was scarcely…
Do Fifa really want Saudi Arabia to sponsor the women’s world cup?
In July and August, Australia and New Zealand are hosts of the 2023 Fifa Women’s world cup. It could not…
Greece is erupting in anger after its train disaster
‘Message me when you get there.’ This phrase became a rallying cry when hundreds of thousands of people took to…
Lineker’s solidarity strikers could speed up the end of the licence fee
I never expected staff at an entire department of the BBC to put their shoulders to the wheel of the…
The Prince of Prussia’s legal fight brings painful memories back for Germany
Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia has two big problems: he is the great-great-grandson and heir of Wilhelm II, Germany’s last…
Rishi Sunak tries to defuse the Gary Lineker row
Any hopes in No. 10 that Rishi Sunak’s French charm offensive with Emmanuel Macron would dominate the weekend papers were…
We’re finding out who really runs the BBC
The high-profile political activist Gary Lineker will not present Match of the Day tonight after he likened the rhetoric of the government to 1930s Germany.…
In defence of the supermarket
Supermarkets are once again back in the firing line. Henry Dimbleby, the Leon co-founder turned government food tsar, has blamed…
The BBC shouldn’t have taken Gary Lineker off air
The BBC’s decision to take Gary Lineker off the air is the sort of self-harming stupidity at which the Corporation excels. The…
Aukus is looking like a Nato for the Pacific
How big a deal is it that Australia has chosen a British design for its nuclear submarines rather than the…
The ignorance of Gary Lineker
When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as…
Can Ukraine ever win over Crimea and the Donbas?
It’s a topic that few are willing to talk about, but at some point – and especially if it is…
Sunak needs more than Macron’s help to crack the Channel crisis
There was more than a whiff of ‘bromance’ between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron when they met at the Anglo-French…
What the right gets wrong on illegal immigration
The government’s plans for the Illegal Migration Bill – which would see virtually all people arriving outside formal, legal channels…
The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup
So the cancel-culture set believes in free speech now? What a turnaround. People who have spent the past decade turning…
Wall Street wants Kamala. So do Republicans
Texas showdown Democratic congressman Colin Allred is mulling a run against Senator Ted Cruz, Cockburn has learned. No major Democratic…
The BBC’s nightmare hat-trick of blunders
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC press office has had a nightmare 24 hours, with not one but three…
Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data
Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via…
Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day
Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot…
