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Rostov returns to reality after Wagner’s botched coup
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, it always seemed likely that the war would come back to Rostov-on-Don, the…
Jonny Bairstow shows how to deal with Just Stop Oil
Give Jonny Bairstow a knighthood. Whatever else happens at the Ashes, or indeed throughout the rest of his cricketing career,…
Nato’s leadership race is a miserable advert for the alliance
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has conceded defeat in his bid to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary-general of Nato. Wallace…
France erupts in violence after police shoot dead a teenager
Much of Paris was a battleground on Tuesday evening as scores of youths rioted following the fatal shooting of a…
Does cricket suffer from ‘institutional racism’?
What a strange document the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket (ICEC) has produced, in its ‘Holding up a mirror…
Are the walls closing in on ol’ Joe?
Confronted with devastating evidence of Biden family grifting, the president’s advocates are abandoning their old defenses and trying some new…
Presidential hopeful Francis Suarez: ‘What’s a Uighur?’
Miami mayor Francis X. Suarez should pick Gary “Aleppo” Johnson for his 2024 running mate. After a revealing interview on…
Why Wagner’s coup failed
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched, the overall mood among those around me – Russians from a range…
Elon Musk: innovator, CEO, ket head
What’s your poison? All of the greatest minds have one. Freud loved cocaine, Charles Dickens dabbled with opium, Steve Jobs…
When vegans are worthy of our disdain
Celebrity chef John Mountain made headlines last week for banning vegans from his restaurant, Fyre, citing “mental health reasons,” reportedly…
Pickles slaps down Boris over Mail column
Remember Eric Pickles? The larger-than-life Coalition mainstay who inspired such legendary headlines as ‘I did not spend £10,000 on extra…
Prince William should house the homeless on his lands
The Prince of Wales has announced that homelessness will be his charitable focus while he awaits his eventual succession to…
Europe is rapidly shifting to the right
‘The left is sweeping to power across Europe,’ suggested the headline in the Independent in September 2021. The newspaper called…
In praise of encyclopedias
Simon Winchester recalls the time — he was not yet three — when, stepping into his rubber boot, he was…
Putin is increasingly losing touch with reality
Trailed as an historic address to the nation following the weekend’s Wagner rebellion, Vladimir Putin’s short speech on Monday night was instead an…
Boris Johnson’s peculiar conservative conversion
In his most recent column for the Mail, Boris Johnson fires a shot at, among other things, ‘the leftie twittersphere’.…
What happened to QAnon?
“There’s a storm coming,” popular historian turned esoteric political commentator Neil Oliver posted on Twitter in May, “Maybe not today.…
What’s the true cost of the Rwanda deportation plan?
What’s the point of the government’s flagship Rwanda deportation scheme if it isn’t going to save money for the taxpayer?…
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin breaks his silence
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has released an 11-minute audio message after leading a march on…
‘Biden should own his old age’ and other bad Jeffrey Katzenberg ideas
Seventy-two-year-old entertainment mogul and campaign advisor Jeffrey Katzenberg has some sage advice for President Biden: eighty is the new sixty.…
Where did it all go wrong for Harry and Meghan?
Even for those of us who are not well disposed towards the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is hard…
The Bank can’t blame wages for out of control inflation
After a bruising week, perhaps Andrew Bailey could take some solace in Rishi Sunak’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg this weekend.…
A dispatch from the olive oil capital of the world
It was an extraordinary sight. For three days, and about seventy kilometers of hiking, there were just endless olive trees…
Why is it so difficult to find MPs who aren’t useless?
It’s a sign, possibly, of my increasing age and bad temper that I find myself harking back to an imaginary past in…
Why are killer whales attacking boats?
Orcas – killer whales no less – are on the attack. They have declared war on humanity. They are systematically…
