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The immortal beauty of Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale, who died this week aged 89, was one of few Italian actresses to achieve global stardom along with…
We are all witches now
Two days before Charlie Kirk was murdered, Claire Guinan, a writer for the US women’s website Jezebel, paid witches online…
Panic and plotting inside Labour conference
The Labour party returns to Liverpool this weekend for its annual four-day jamboree. Twelve months after a dismal conference, dominated…
Time for the House of York to fall
It is tempting to imagine Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson enduring a mutually resentful existence in Royal Lodge. Like an aristocratic version…
Labour spinners have a lot to learn from Reform
Ed Miliband once said of Lord Mandelson that he was ‘his own worst spin doctor’. Even that might be preferable…
They don’t make MPs like Ming Campbell any more
Tributes are pouring in for Menzies Campbell, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, and generally considered a decent chap for…
Tony Blair will not be welcome in Gaza
During an earlier Gaza war, I spoke to families who had fled the fighting but whose place of refuge –…
The plight of Germany’s powerless centrists
Germany is a tense country these days. Conversations with friends and relatives there invariably turn to politics, and, when they…
Did Ilhan Omar marry her brother?
In as Trumpian a fashion as it gets, the president has rekindled the years-long debate: Did progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar…
Gavin Newsom’s fossil-fuel flip-flop
Gavin Newsom once touted California as the fossil fuel industry’s “foe.” In 2024 he declared energy workers “the polluted heart…
Why black voters won’t come around to Mamdani
When Zohran Mamdani took the pulpit at Brooklyn’s Bethany Baptist Church last Sunday, he had a golden opportunity. He could…
Retribution looms for the NeverTrumpers
“My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump,” says James…
Is Labour trying to kill the gambling industry?
It seems Labour will not rest until the gambling industry is dead and buried. In the latest attack, more than…
Why is Apple hosting an assassin’s app?
ICEBlock is an app that uses real-time information to pinpoint the location of ICE agents in the field. Launched in…
Ming Campbell was too good for politics
Sir Menzies Campbell’s death means the loss of one of the most inconspicuously interesting people I’ve known in politics, not…
Starbucks has lost its cool
The news that the once-beloved, now-beleaguered coffee chain Starbucks is to fire nearly a thousand staff and close dozens of…
Trump’s new pharma tariffs will punish Americans
Donald Trump has punished European pharmaceutical companies by imposing 100 percent tariffs on their branded products unless they are prepared…
When Curtis Yarvin met Alastair Campbell
A video has been doing the rounds in which a woman holds an iguana up to the glass window of…
What’s so bad about ID cards?
Back in 2009, when the Labour government piloted a voluntary biometric identity card, I signed up immediately. In fact –…
Do not dismiss Trump’s Gaza plan
The recent moves by Donald Trump to promote a plan to end the two-year war between Hamas and Israel in…
How the judiciary took down Nicolas Sarkozy
A Paris court has sentenced France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years, three of which must be served behind…
Labour women must stop crying sexism
Does the Labour party have a problem with women? It’s not just Conservatives – who enjoy comparing their own three…
Why Brits are no good at learning foreign languages
The British media has got into one of its regular funks about Britons not learning foreign languages. As the only…
James Comey is not above the law
Days before the five-year statute of limitations was due to expire, the long arm of the law finally has caught…
Digital IDs are a nightmare of Tony Blair’s making
Is Tony Blair pulling the strings of Keir Starmer’s government from beyond the political grave? Only two days ago the…
