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NatWest faces questions over backing Alison Rose

26 July 2023 6:15 pm

A week is a long time in politics and a day is a long time in banking. On Tuesday afternoon,…

India’s sinister attempt to censor Oppenheimer

26 July 2023 5:43 pm

Anurag Thakur, India’s information and broadcasting minister, is hopping mad about a sex scene in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster film Oppenheimer.…

Why Alison Rose had to quit as NatWest chief

26 July 2023 4:30 pm

Last night, the board of NatWest announced that it had ‘full confidence’ in Dame Alison Rose as its chief executive.…

Shakespeare in black and white

26 July 2023 12:16 pm

Sarah Karim-Cooper first came to public attention at the cosmetics counter. Her book on makeup in Renaissance theater, Cosmetics in Shakespearean…

Cameron shines at gay marriage reception

26 July 2023 1:20 am

It’s ten years this month since legislation to legalise same-sex marriage was passed by parliament. So what better way to…

NatWest, Farage and the decline of corporate behaviour

26 July 2023 12:47 am

The story of NatWest Group’s rogue behaviour goes far deeper than Nigel Farage. It now emerges that many more customers have…

Will the Tories learn from Coutts’ mistake in taking on Nigel Farage?

26 July 2023 12:06 am

Not for the first time in his colourful life, the perennial rebel Nigel Farage has the establishment on the run.…

Barbie

Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes

25 July 2023 11:38 pm

Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually…

The comfort of drinking at the Hound

25 July 2023 10:42 pm

In the historic downtown of York, Pennsylvania, near the courthouse where the Articles of Confederation were drafted and a farmers’…

BBC issues another grovelling apology

25 July 2023 10:39 pm

Sorry doesn’t seem to be the hardest word over at the BBC. The Corporation has had to issue another grovelling apology –…

Sunak will have to water down net zero sooner or later

25 July 2023 8:04 pm

The Uxbridge by-election has thrown Labour into a civil war, or at least a civil skirmish. Keir Starmer has told…

Just Stop Oil have finally met their match

25 July 2023 7:37 pm

Have Just Stop Oil finally met their match? The splendidly named counter-organisation ‘Just Stop Pissing People Off’ have pulled off…

Gove rows back on 2030 petrol car ban U-turn

25 July 2023 7:28 pm

If you U-turn on a U-turn, does that make it an O-turn? That’s the question Mr S is wondering this…

Labour still can’t be trusted on trans rights

25 July 2023 4:34 am

Today, Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, has pledged in a Guardian article that ‘Labour will lead on…

Operation Get Trump

25 July 2023 4:09 am

Humankind, said T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. A case in point was the chyron that Fox News posted…

BBC finally apologises to Nigel Farage

25 July 2023 3:03 am

Dogs bark, cows moo and the BBC makes a hash of it. After holding out for a week, the Corporation…

Is Ron DeSantis the new Kamala Harris?

25 July 2023 12:26 am

What if the problem for Ron DeSantis isn’t that he resembles the spiraling candidacies of the past, but that he’s…

Elon Musk has launched X to kill Twitter

24 July 2023 10:51 pm

It will trash the brand. It will alienate its core users. And relaunching and rebranding a failing business almost never…

Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth

24 July 2023 10:49 pm

A few minutes into celebrated Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church’s appearance on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert motioned towards him conspiratorially.…

The unlikely new kingmakers in Spanish politics

24 July 2023 10:47 pm

Depending on how you look at the result of yesterday’s general election in Spain, either everyone won or no one…

When will Spain’s political paralysis end?

24 July 2023 8:49 pm

Sunday’s general election in Spain was supposed to answer the question: will Spain be governed for the next four years…

Artificial Intelligence is the crack cocaine of the digital age

24 July 2023 8:32 pm

The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards…

Is global warming behind Greece’s wildfires?

24 July 2023 8:10 pm

Summer wouldn’t be complete without hordes of disgruntled British tourists being evacuated from their hotels, flown home early or spending…

Minister calls in the banks after Farage account closed

24 July 2023 7:40 pm

It’s a month since the Farage Coutts row blew up and there’s no sign of it calming down any time…

Immigration and a government in a state of post-hypnotic suggestion

24 July 2023 7:15 pm

Hurrah! The government, it was reported yesterday, is working on getting some more migrants. To plug a million-strong post-Brexit labour shortage in…