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Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit
The rule of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa since 1994 has been marked by a widening chasm between…
Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron
Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting…
Violence is being normalised against the National Rally
Jordan Bardella has been physically attacked twice over the past five days. Flour was thrown over him at an agricultural…
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform
Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has…
Dublin’s quiet march toward Judenfrei
Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the…
Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians
Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May.…
Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn
I’ll fight you if you contradict my assertion that The Producers is the funniest film ever made. It’s celluloid perfection.…
Cabinet ministers turn on Reeves
Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled…
Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference
After two days of discord and division, Your Party has voted and it finally has a name – Your Party.…
Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget
The Budget is out and, as expected, its measures include the removal of the two-child benefit cap, along with tax…
Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials are only the start
Four days after a Budget is usually the time when it starts to unravel. Some within Labour see it as…
The downfall of Thomas King, Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous…
Inside the mind of Putin’s real negotiator
As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Trump’s peace plan next week, leaked recordings of…
Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity
Last year I visited Lincoln for the first time. It’s difficult to resist the elevated beauty and dominant cathedral, but…
The lost world of the British sex comedy
Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she…
Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus
This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10…
Are America’s women heading for the exit?
Life is apparently so disagreeable in Donald Trump’s America that 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 44 want…
John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet
John Lewis’s new ‘heirloom splendour’ Christmas decorations range features baubles that mimic a miniature vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, TV –…
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
‘Tom Stoppard is dead.’ For anyone who cares for the theatre, the English language, and especially for those of us…
Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog
Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history. This week Dublin City Council voted to change the name of Herzog Park…
Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a…
The ‘Your Party’ conference is a mess
It used to be said that the old Liberal party had so few MPs that they could fit in the…
Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah
The killing of Lebanese Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tababtabai by Israel this week reflects how much the balance of…
Meet the e-girls selling European decline to America
Earlier this year, a striking 28-year-old woman, dressed head to toe in a vivid shade of crimson, stepped up to…
Why DC loves to hate Partiful
If you’re under 50, you may have noticed that Partiful has quietly annexed the American social calendar over the past…
