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Why Nadhim Zahawi joined Reform
How many Tories is too many? That’s the question that Westminster is asking after the unveiling of Reform’s latest defector.…
A royal reunion is unlikely if Meghan returns to Britain
The name ‘Meghan’ bears a certain resemblance to ‘Me Again’. If the recent newspaper reports are to be believed, ‘Me…
The flaw in Labour’s Brexit delusion
The lexicon of Brexit has a new entry: the ‘Farage clause’. As part of Labour’s ‘reset’ talks with Brussels, EU negotiators…
Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…
Met chief insists London is getting safer
Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this then? It is a new year but the same old lines from Sir Mark…
Hollywood is all but silent on Iran
It was the Golden Globes last night in Tinseltown and as per usual Hollywood’s finest strutted and peacocked on the…
Why are teachers so obsessed with the ‘far right’?
Much has been written in recent years, and even recent days, about the threat posed to the mental wellbeing of…
When will Iran finally be free?
An Iranian friend of mine once told me that ever since fleeing his homeland in the early days of Iran’s…
How far can bravado take the US?
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did…
Inside the Democrats’ AI skepticism
Bernie Sanders has been rolling out political hot takes for more than half a century, and in recent years his…
Could the Donroe Doctrine turn Marco Rubio into the president-in-waiting?
It required an incredible amount of sophistication to achieve the desired result in Caracas: a dictator detained and transported alive.…
A buyer’s guide to Greenland
I recently wrote a book countenancing the idea that the United States could buy Greenland, and I have received some…
Iran’s uprising and the moral bewilderment of Western youth
I’m starting to feel sorry for progressives who are schtum about the revolution in Iran. My contempt for them is…
Who cares if Dylan Thomas was a plagiarist?
‘Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.’ This quote from TS Eliot has become a critical commonplace. And if we’re to take it as…
What Agatha Christie’s migrants teach us about Britain
Agatha Christie, who died fifty years ago today on 12 January 1976, possessed a genius for making the ordinary strange.…
Sunday shows round-up: Heidi Alexander: UK hoping for ‘peaceful transition’ in Iran
Protests have swept across Iran in the last couple of days, and reports suggest hundreds of people may now have…
Mandelson refuses to apologise for Epstein association
The Dark Lord is back. Peter Mandelson has resurfaced, four months after being sacked as US ambassador for his links…
Labour MP threatens by-election over jury plans
A new year and new headaches for the Labour whips’ office. Karl Turner, the long-serving MP for Hull East, has…
Trump is playing geopolitical Monopoly with Greenland
Donald Trump is playing hemispheric monopoly. Depending on what day of the week it is, the President’s focus alternates between…
The Palestine flag that shames Dublin
A Palestinian flag is currently fluttering from the top of the Spire, Dublin’s tallest landmark, looking down on the Irish…
America’s Somalis and the ‘learing’ explosion
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
Being a bookseller isn’t what it was
Every Christmas, I throw off my doctoral gown, slap the monographs, the Collected Works and the many-volume Letters back onto…
Australia’s cricket was just too good
The longest postscript in sport is finally over. On the eve of the first Ashes test, which began on 21…
Why I’m doing wet, rather than dry, January
Rainy grey skies so often compound the gloom of going back to work after the Christmas break. Not least in…
The end is drawing near for Iran’s mullahs
As a wave of protests swept across Iran last night, the internet was completely shut down. I have no idea…
