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Should people with big gardens pay more for their water?
According to Cathryn Ross, Thames Water’s co-interim chief executive, householders with large gardens should be paying a higher price for…
Road-trip picnics are a casualty of our interstate system
Signs announcing roadside picnic tables once peppered America’s secondary roads and highways. Or so we call those byways now. Before…
Britain should place a big bet on the petrol engine
Ministers should be hailing it as a major vote of confidence in the economy. King Charles should be clearing his…
In praise of Milan Kundera
The Czech-born writer Milan Kundera has died, at the age of 94. Four years ago, Toby Young wrote this tribute…
It’s time the SNP was honest about EU membership
There’s a school of thought that, since Scotland isn’t likely to become independent anytime soon, interrogating the SNP’s claims about…
The Nato summit is a blow to the SNP’s nuclear plans
The Nato summit in Vilnius has been an eventful one already. Even though no clear timeline for when the country…
What was Algeria’s role in the French riots?
In March 2012 a French Algerian called Mohammed Merah murdered three soldiers and shot dead three Jewish children and a…
The Church of England is on the brink of a crisis
A bishop said something significant at General Synod last week. I promise you. Something that might even herald a new…
Caster Semenya shouldn’t be able to compete in women’s events
Who can compete in women’s sports? This week’s decision by the European Court of Human Rights further complicates the debate. Judges in…
What was the point of the PGA-LIV show trial?
The media buzz surrounding the PGA-LIV Golf merger just won’t stop — and the Senate’s investigation on Tuesday did little…
The GOP’s tribal warfare
Open any national publication, and you’ll read all about a cultish, fire-breathing MAGA majority in the Republican Party, slavish in…
Why NATO shouldn’t let Ukraine in just yet
Deciding whether Ukraine should eventually join NATO is hotly debated. There are good reasons to favor its inclusion, but not…
Illegal Migration Bill survives mammoth voting session
Tory whips and publicans are the only people smiling in parliament tonight, after a mammoth three and a half hour…
Lessons for young daters from the Jonah Hill saga
There was a viral tweet last year that read, “do married people watch gen z dating and feel like they…
Nothing makes technology transparent again
Consumer technology is, usually, profoundly dull. I love technology, but even I must concede the undeniable. A new pair of…
Christina Aguilera is the real winner of the 2003 VMAs kiss
It is nearly twenty years since the most iconic moment in modern music history: when Madonna, aged forty-five, made out…
Nato’s members still don’t see eye to eye on Ukraine
US President Joe Biden flew into Vilnius, Lithuania early on Tuesday with a big task ahead of him: to keep…
The BBC presenter feeding frenzy
Rishi Sunak has touched down at the Nato summit, but there’s only one question journalists want to ask him about:…
Who’s to blame for rising mortgage costs?
Mortgage costs have reached a 15-year high today, with the average two-year fixed deal hitting 6.66 per cent – the…
Tories fight over Illegal Migration Bill
The Illegal Migration Bill is back this afternoon for ‘ping pong’ – the final stage of its legislative passage where…
America’s fierce guilt for slavery is understandable – we mustn’t import it
I love American roadtrips. They are the ideal way to visit 96 per cent of the country, which is determinedly…
Why are we so obsessed with TV presenters?
The mucky allegations about a ‘household name’ BBC star – who is said to have paid thousands of pounds to…
Urgency drives the day at the Vilnius Nato summit
Rishi Sunak heads to Lithuania today for the Nato leaders’ summit (which means he will be missing another Prime Minister’s…
Ukraine’s Nato limbo is set to continue
As the Nato summit on international security opens this week in Vilnius, one obvious issue will be the success or…
Wages are up – but the Bank won’t be happy about it
The labour market continues to show signs of becoming less tight – but this won’t be fast enough for the…
