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Donald Trump doesn’t want to talk about Epstein
The contrast could hardly have been starker. As Donald Trump palled around with Mohammed bin Salman in the newly gilded Oval Office, Congress was voting on…
Labour leadership plotters should be careful what they wish for
Take it from me: leadership challenges are the beginning of the end. Barely twelve months after Conservative feuding led to…
Nicki Minaj and Mike Waltz team up at the UN
Before Nicki Minaj spoke at the United Nations today, Ambassador Mike Waltz referred to her as “the greatest female recording artist” and a “principled individual who…
Badenoch guns for the Guardian
It was all guns blazing from Kemi Badenoch today. The Tory leader has clashed before with the Guardian – most…
Europe’s leaders are finally waking up on immigration – but is it too late?
The impressive shift in the terms of trade of the immigration debate in the last 24 hours proves one unlikely proposition:…
Inside the BBC’s Trump-bashing Reith Lecture
A few weeks ago, I received an invitation from Tim Davie, the BBC’s Director-General, to listen to Rutger Bregman deliver…
Helen Webberley is terrifying
Ben Leo’s interview with Helen Webberley is a chilling dramatisation of what happens when ideology meets reality – and ideology…
The SNP have crossed the line on abortion
For years, the SNP has relied on a particular political alchemy. It takes on extremely liberal social positions to appeal…
No, Shabana Mahmood isn’t far right
We’ve become grimly accustomed to people throwing around the phrase ‘far right’. But seeing it flung at Labour home secretary…
China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
For all the talk about artificial intelligence and quantum supremacy, the fate of civilizations still depends on breakfast. ChatGPT can’t…
The net migration debacle is a blunder too far for the ONS
Another day at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), another apparent data mishap – this time on net migration figures.…
What Trump’s Gaza peace plan means for Israel
This may not be the conclusion Israel imagined when it launched its campaign in Gaza. Not all the hostage bodies…
How Trump could attack Venezuela
President Trump has assembled the largest naval force in the Caribbean since the Cold War. How will it be used?…
How Nigel Farage would cut spending
At 94 per cent of GDP, UK government debt is the fourth highest among advanced European economies. With the tax…
Kemi: Labour will punish voters for its own mistakes
The Budget countdown is on, and with just over a week to go until Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s big fiscal statement…
Are AI stocks about to crash?
Bitcoin has lost almost a quarter of its value. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index on Wall Street has started to fall.…
Can Trump control inflation?
Notionally, Americans have never been better off. The ructions in tech stocks over the past few weeks cannot detract from…
Trump’s Oddjob: the rise of Steven Cheung
Though reporters covering the Trump administration are very familiar with Steven Cheung, the Donald’s combative White House communications director, he’s…
Are refugees really worth £266,000 each to the UK economy?
Refugees could contribute £266,000 each to the UK economy: that’s the claim made by the Together with Refugees coalition and…
In defence of ticket touts
Ticket touts have never been popular. Yet this unpopularity is no warrant for Labour to deprive ticket holders of their…
The Dr. Strangelove taxonomy of DC types
I tweeted the other day that my social life in Trump’s DC is just getting dinner or drinks with a…
Trader Joe’s is a way of life
A young woman recently approached me as I stood outside Trader Joe’s on the corner of 93rd Street and Columbus…
The anti-Masonic roots of the Republican party
I suppose the big anniversary event of the coming new year is the semi-quincentennial of the American Revolution. I’m all…
Will members of the intellectual class let AI rot their brains?
An adage dating at least from my adolescence: “You either use it or lose it.” This bit of folk wisdom,…
Anne of Green Gables perfected the kitchen mishap
There’s something wickedly entertaining in reading about other people’s kitchen debacles, whether actual or fictional. They’re just so relatable. The…
