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Angela Rayner facing questions over council house sale
A difficult Monday morning for Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner. The right-on left-winger is facing some tricky questions today after…
Liverpool fans should stop booing the national anthem
Liverpool fans, a significant number at least, booed the national anthem at the Carabao Cup final at Wembley yesterday. It wasn’t the…
Javier Milei’s Argentine revolution seems to be working
The currency would collapse. Output would go into freefall. Unemployment would soar, and the IMF would be back in charge…
Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan looks dead on arrival
Israel’s government has finally begun to turn its attention to what happens once the war in Gaza is over. The…
France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them
France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since…
Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?
Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…
Will Navalny be given a public funeral?
Nine days after Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, his body was finally handed over to his mother…
What if digital learning is a catastrophe?
There’s a lot of talk in the papers about the importance of banning smartphones from schools. Quite right too. The…
Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout
National Harbor, Maryland “CPAC 2024 was a HUGE success!,” the conference’s account tweeted this morning. Cockburn isn’t sure how they’re…
Zelensky: ‘31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far’
After two years of secrecy, Volodymyr Zelensky has finally revealed the number of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. ‘31,000 Ukrainian military personnel…
The fantastical myths that swirl around Vladimir Putin
If there is one man who is probably happiest that Vladimir Putin’s travel schedule has been so heavily curtailed of…
The Lee Anderson row shows the Tory party has broken down
What are we to make of the Lee Anderson saga? The very fact that this low-rent furore is dominating our Sunday…
Oliver Dowden: ‘Words matter’ in Lee Anderson Islamophobia row
Lee Anderson was stripped of the Tory whip yestereday after refusing to apologise for remarks in which he claimed ‘Islamists’…
Nikki Haley’s candidacy is Never Trumpism’s last stand
‘I’m a woman of my word,’ said Nikki Haley after another humiliating defeat last night. ‘I’m not giving up this…
Low birth rates are a threat to humanity
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…
Viktor Orban is not abandoning Europe
The news that Hungary and China have signed a security pact, following a visit by to Budapest by Wang Xiaohong,…
Why are Japan’s trains so much better than ours?
With six more months of train strikes recently announced it is getting hard to imagine a punctual, anxiety-free railway journey…
The sinister reality of trail hunting
Will Sir Keir Starmer go further on the Hunting Act than Tony Blair did? While the passing of the legislation…
The dilemma of being a transsexual Christian
As the Church of England once again tears itself apart over gay marriage, us transsexual Christians have slipped in under…
Why Trump won South Carolina
Elvis has left the building. So has Trump, and he left victorious. The “primary show” will have a few encores,…
Sunak was right to suspend Lee Anderson
When Lee Anderson was made deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, it was on the understanding that he’d explode now…
Shamima Begum shouldn’t have lost her British citizenship
Parliamentary sovereignty is the bedrock of the constitution, and the courts ought to accept it, even when bad laws are…
How badly will Nikki Haley lose in South Carolina?
Will Nikki Haley defy expectations and only lose by 20 points today? That seems to be closest thing to a…
The shamelessness of Hope not Hate
You would think that a group called ‘Hope not Hate’ would have a lot of important things to talk about…
Two years on, the Ukraine war matters more than ever
There are inevitably voices in the West questioning the value of committing more than £5.5 billion a month in support…
