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The glorious revival of Paris’s English bookshop
Stepping into Smith & Son bookshop across from the Tuileries, my first instinct is to look for signs of change.…
Will Labour’s sick note crackdown work?
‘Can I have one last present?’ my daughter asked earlier this week, having turned 15 and covered the kitchen floor…
The art world isn’t free
Artistic freedom is often treated as a modern ideal, but history tells a more complicated story. From religious patronage to…
Why did police handcuff Henry Nowak?
Britain’s police are meant to police without fear or favor, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that they don’t…
The Ministry of Defence is failing to prepare Britain for war
In the last 20 or 25 years, there has been a much greater understanding that a country’s ‘national security’ encompasses…
France could block Britain from rejoining the EU
Labour’s dream of rejoining the European Union may be an ambition to warm the heart of Emmanuel Macron but it…
Andy Burnham’s faux insurgent act fools no one
Today, in what will doubtless be just the first of many irritations inflicted on the unfortunate people of Makerfield, Labour…
When teenage rapists walk free
A gang of teenage traveller boys who filmed themselves raping lone schoolgirls on two occasions have been spared jail. It seems…
What’s wrong with supermarkets making money?
The British public struggles to distinguish between large numbers and large margins. On Wednesday, amid swirling debates about the government’s nudging of supermarkets to…
In praise of Thomas Tuchel’s England squad
For England coach Thomas Tuchel, the real work has just begun. Forget the phoney war of a qualifying group in which…
Thomas Tuchel’s England team has angered everyone
Thomas Tuchel is an England boss who isn’t afraid to be brutal and he doesn’t apparently much care for big names…
Green MP takes ‘burnout’ leave
Residents of Bristol Central will not be represented in parliament for ‘several weeks’, the Green Party announced today. And why…
Does Andy Burnham know what a woman is?
Can Andy Burnham define ‘a woman’? The correct answer is ‘an adult human female’, though I would also accept ‘someone…
Ben-Gvir’s crass gloating isn’t the worst thing about the Gaza flotilla
Imagine if, in 1941, as we were fighting for our lives against the German menace, a boatload of foreign narcissists…
Afghanistan is crumbling
On Monday, an engineer set himself on fire in a Kabul street because he could not find work to feed…
Green Party’s former Makerfield candidate shared antisemitic conspiracies
Yesterday, the Green Party announced that its candidate for the Makerfield by-election was quitting the race less than ten hours…
Burnham’s buses show why he will probably fail as prime minister
It’s one of those political facts that everyone parrots without really knowing whether it’s true: Andy Burnham has, in his…
Why the Pentagon has Nigeria in its sights
For the Pentagon, Nigeria is firmly on the list of countries where terror has run amok. In 2025 and again…
Labour’s day of trans reckoning arrives
More than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex, Labour has finally…
Why did the Queen push for Andrew to become a trade envoy?
The Andrew formerly known as “Prince” was always supposedly his mother’s favorite child. He had a degree of indulgence paid…
Putin’s nuclear escalation is a sign of desperation
As Vladimir Putin senses the momentum of the war shifting in Ukraine’s favour, he has redoubled his attempts to coerce…
The bleak truth about falling net migration
The government has been in a celebratory mood since the release of the latest immigration figures. The Home Secretary tweeted…
Streeting has abandoned the NHS like everyone else
As well as making noises about wealth taxes that sound suspiciously similar to the kind of thing Andy Burnham would…
The planning catastrophe that stops homes being built in London
The Aylesham Centre is a rundown half-empty shopping centre built in the 1980s. It is a short walk from Peckham…
Net emigration isn’t soaring
This morning the government was able to celebrate some sorely needed good news. Long-term net migration has fallen sharply to…
