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Sunak changes his tune on tax cuts

20 November 2023 11:56 pm

Tax cuts are around the corner. That was the message from Rishi Sunak when he addressed hacks this morning in…

The Tories must get serious about welfare reform

20 November 2023 11:15 pm

You can’t fault Mel Stride for trying. Conscious that our current levels of worklessness are neither sustainable nor likely to…

Met police swell their social media army

20 November 2023 9:32 pm

Scarcely a week seems to go by without an incident involving one of the Metropolitan Police’s social media accounts. Recent…

Tory MPs want a sense of vision from the PM

20 November 2023 8:59 pm

The Autumn Statement marks the latest in Rishi Sunak’s series of (often contradictory) relaunches Jeremy Hunt has started the week…

A potential hostage deal shows the weakness of Hamas

20 November 2023 8:44 pm

Details are sketchy and the deal is far from done, but all the signs are pointing towards a hostage agreement…

Can the government be trusted with free speech?

20 November 2023 8:17 pm

This summer, horrified by the rising numbers of students no-platforming and harassing visiting speakers whose views they don’t like, the government…

The new chainsaw wielding leader of Argentina

20 November 2023 7:16 pm

The location was the same – the circumstances starkly different. Almost 12 months ago, hundreds of thousands of people gathered…

Can Israel go on like this?

20 November 2023 5:44 pm

All generals plan military operations based on the ten principles of war – rules if you like, which if adhered to…

What does Javier Milei’s win in Argentina mean to America?

20 November 2023 5:26 pm

Javier Milei, a messy-haired bombastic libertarian economist, won Argentina’s presidential elections against socialist minister of economics Sergio Massa this Sunday.…

Hamas and retaking higher education

20 November 2023 3:05 pm

Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest…

What changed Hunt’s mind on tax cuts?

19 November 2023 11:54 pm

Has Jeremy Hunt had a change of heart or a change of circumstances? The Chancellor has spent the past few…

Will Sunak publish Braverman’s ‘ransom note’?

19 November 2023 8:34 pm

Another week of Tory wars looms in SW1. Ministers are desperately trying to find a fix to the Supreme Court’s…

Cameron squirms over China links

19 November 2023 8:10 pm

Welcome back to Westminster, David Cameron. The return of the former PM to frontline politics has prompted a deluge of…

The problem with trying to ‘fix’ men

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

International men’s day takes place today. There are plenty of good people working hard to raise the event’s status, but…

What it’s like living next door to Hezbollah

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

At 6.30 am on October 7, I began receiving hundreds of messages as Hamas began its invasion of Israel. We…

Could Nigel Farage win I’m a Celebrity?

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

This weekend, Nigel Farage enters the jungle on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – reportedly for a fee…

Tracey Emin and the problem with museum trustees

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

The Royal Academy has nominated Tracey Emin to be a trustee of the British Museum. There is quite a fanfare…

The strange tale of Count Kalergi and the Pan-European Union

19 November 2023 6:00 pm

If the European Union created its own version of Mount Rushmore, who would it place in its pantheon? Horst Köhler,…

Vivian Silver and the collapse of the Israeli left

19 November 2023 1:22 am

The well-lived life and foul murder of Vivian Silver encapsulate the hopelessness of Israel-Hamas war and the bad faith that…

Everton’s problems are only just beginning

19 November 2023 12:20 am

Pity the poor Everton fans. Just as their once mighty club, now a perennial relegation battler, seemed to have a…

The sinister push to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland

18 November 2023 7:31 pm

There have been diplomatic tensions between Ireland and Israel almost since the latter was founded. Ireland only established diplomatic relations…

The brilliance of A.S. Byatt lives on in her writing

18 November 2023 7:10 pm

Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist A.S. Byatt, has died after a long illness. With her goes part of the conscience…

Is Rishi Sunak preparing to throw Tory Red Wall MPs overboard?

18 November 2023 6:00 pm

Can the people around Rishi Sunak really be dim enough not to have anticipated that his reshuffle would go down…

How will Israel deal with the threat of Hezbollah?

18 November 2023 5:50 pm

From the very beginning, the war between Israel and Hamas has not been confined to just one front. The Iran-backed,…

Volhynia and the forgotten massacre of the Second World War

18 November 2023 5:15 pm

Completely innocent men, women and children have been slaughtered. ‘Terrorism’ hardly suffices to describe the savage rampage beyond the Gaza…