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Myanmar’s plight shames the West

1 February 2025 5:00 pm

Four years ago, Myanmar’s fragile, nascent quasi-democracy was snuffed out after less than a decade of experimenting with limited reform…

Why we should heed warnings about weight loss jabs

1 February 2025 5:00 pm

Embarking on the quest to lose weight can be a risky business. Yo-yo dieting, compulsive binging, muscle wasting and brain…

In defence of Slough

1 February 2025 5:00 pm

In the 1930s, Sir John Betjeman wrote a poem calling for bombs to fall on it, in 2001 David Brent…

Iran’s Donald Trump dilemma

1 February 2025 4:45 pm

To talk or not to talk? This is the slogan that’s doing the rounds among the Islamic Republic of Iran’s…

Doctor Who fans – and its writers – need to grow up

1 February 2025 4:23 pm

Doctor Who, which started back in 1963, is often spoken about with a curious reverence as though it were something…

What Kim Jones’s departure means for Dior

1 February 2025 9:42 am

Last Friday afternoon, amid the menswear shows for Paris Fashion Week, a crowd of influencers, shoppers, celebrities and fashion journalists…

Media partisans weaponize plane crash tragedy

1 February 2025 2:42 am

For the past several years, the air traffic I see out the windows of my office has been constant —…

Channel 4’s diversity hypocrisy

1 February 2025 2:24 am

Some good news for the BBC: for once it’s not them causing bad headlines. Today’s latest shining example in public…

The Sara Sharif family court judges should have been named far sooner

1 February 2025 1:44 am

There is something of an anti-climax in the naming of the judges involved in the Sara Sharif case. It’s true that…

Nats blast Humza in ministerial interview series

1 February 2025 1:44 am

Uh oh. There’s more trouble in nationalist paradise. A series of interviews with past and present Scottish government ministers have…

Priti Patel’s migration defence was a serious misstep

1 February 2025 1:24 am

This week looks to be a significant one for polling in British politics. For the first time, every poll released…

Australia’s Jews are living in fear

31 January 2025 11:54 pm

Just when it seemed Australia’s anti-Semitism crisis couldn’t worsen, it has. This week, it was disclosed that a caravan loaded…

Will Trump follow through on his tariff threat on Canada and Mexico?

31 January 2025 11:54 pm

No one can really act surprised if Donald Trump pushes ahead with substantial tariffs on Canada and Mexico tomorrow. ‘Tariff’…

Sacrificing farmland for net zero is a big mistake

31 January 2025 11:32 pm

Yesterday it was a court ruling to invalidate licences for oil and gas extraction in the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.…

Why was this convicted murderer released to kill again?

31 January 2025 11:06 pm

The details of the terrible murder of Sarah Mayhew are almost too appalling to bear, but one question stands out…

Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana

31 January 2025 9:23 pm

In the inimitable words of The Smiths (or, indeed, Carry On Cleo, where they borrowed it from), stop me if…

The interview that exposes the Tories’ migration failures

31 January 2025 8:36 pm

Can we trust the Conservatives to deliver – or even to try to deliver – on whatever migration-sceptic policy pledges…

J.D. Vance mocks ‘110 IQ’ Rory Stewart

31 January 2025 6:43 pm

Oh dear. In his never-ending desire to appear clever, it seems that Rory Stewart has slipped up again. You might…

Trump: Diversity hires to blame for Washington crash

31 January 2025 6:37 pm

While the investigation into the Washington air crash has only just started, already President Trump has hinted at what he…

Japan’s smoking ban is a sham

31 January 2025 4:14 pm

The Japanese city of Osaka has banned smoking on the streets in an apparent effort to smarten up the city…

The Palestine liberation movement continues to disrupt Columbia’s campus

31 January 2025 7:20 am

It was the first day of the spring semester when masked individuals burst into the classroom, shouting and throwing posters…

Who killed Salwan Momika, the Iraqi who burned a Quran?

31 January 2025 4:46 am

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who spearheaded the Quran burning protest in Sweden, was shot dead today. Five men have been…

Parents are asking too much of teachers

31 January 2025 3:12 am

For a truly educational experience, visit your neighbourhood primary school. Watch the goings-on in the playground: tiny tots rushing around…

Watch: Priti Patel challenged to apologise over borders failure

31 January 2025 2:54 am

As Reform UK’s support surges, the Conservatives are coming under scrutiny for failing to deal with immigration to the UK…

Why are ‘anti-racists’ silent about Arbel Yehud’s terrible ordeal?

31 January 2025 1:48 am

Watching Arbel Yehud being freed in Gaza today, I thought to myself: this is what it must have been like…