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Elon and Rishi’s unseemly love-in
Two of the world’s great unelected power-brokers met last night at Bletchley Park. Elon Musk and Rishi Sunak held a…
White House announces effort to counter Islamophobia as antisemitism rises
War is raging in Israel and Kamala Harris is holding down the home front with the same political aplomb she…
Sunak’s Bletchley Park gamble pays off
So, the AI summit – what was that all about? The great Bletchley Park jamboree concluded last night with an…
The banality of Elon’s chat with Rishi
It was hard to enjoy Rishi Sunak’s sit down with Elon Musk on stage at Lancaster House last night. It…
In defence of Dominic Cummings
Sometimes it’s tricky to be a friend of Dominic Cummings, especially if you’re also friends with Helen MacNamara. I worked…
Who is the No. 10 rabbit murderer?
It’s the book that all Westminster is talking about. At long last, Nadine Dorries’ account of the plot to bring…
Zelensky’s new rival
The debate over the necessity of Ukraine’s presidential elections is creating chaos in a nation at war. The ceasefire among…
The smell of flesh is everywhere: A dispatch from Gaza
When the bombs fell, I was at home. My family has been staying at the Jabalia refugee camp, in northern…
The unfortunate reality about US support for Ukraine
Pranked by a Kremlin-friendly comedy duo, Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, spoke for many when she confessed her ‘fatigue’ with the…
Sunak’s AI summit has achieved little on its own
What was the point of Rishi Sunak’s landmark AI summit at Bletchley Park? The Prime Minister has just given a…
Has the Bank of England done enough to stave off recession?
The Bank of England has held interest rates at their 15-year high for a second time. Markets were expecting another…
Kamala Harris doesn’t get AI
At least Kamala Harris managed to avoid the dreaded phrase that we should ‘harness AI’s ‘potential’. But that was just…
We’re still recovering from lockdown’s impact on children
Some 140,000 children missed more than half of the school days they should have attended this spring. Research by the…
How does releasing mice in McDonald’s help Palestinians?
It is hard to know what to make of the sheer mindless stupidity of some people who claim to support…
Why did the United Nations hand a human rights job to Iran’s ambassador?
What does Iran have to teach the world about human rights? The United Nations appears to think we have plenty…
Tuning in and dropping out at Gilpin Hotel
It is 7.30am, and already seventy degrees in Bowness-On-Windemere. A rare, early summer heatwave. My friend Ebele and I lower…
Whitehall’s pandemic ‘dystopian nightmare’
The Covid Inquiry has been taking evidence from Helen MacNamara, Deputy Cabinet Secretary from 2020 to 2021. During Dominic Cummings’s…
Kamala Harris’s brain-dead AI plan
Try to think of leading names in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kamala Harris is probably not the first that…
The Covid inquiry is Brexit redux
Yesterday saw the latest performance of one of the longest-running dramas in town. In many ways, the Covid inquiry felt…
When did we change our minds about Little Britain?
Little Britain is ‘explicitly racist and outdated’. That’s the verdict of viewers asked by Ofcom to watch a 2003 sketch…
What’s stopping a housing crash?
Should we really believe that house prices rose by 0.9 per cent in September, as claimed by the latest release…
Can Spain’s monarchy survive?
‘We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as…
Should Charles apologise to Kenya for Britain’s colonial past?
It was no coincidence that Kenya was chosen for King Charles’s first state visit as monarch outside Europe. After all,…
An Israeli ceasefire would be a major strategic error
It would be a major strategic error for Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza, as some are calling…
Rishi Sunak is too late – the AI monster is at the door
He must be a busy man, Rishi Sunak. When he’s not rescuing the country from inflation, sending the Royal Navy…
