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Khan shells out £200k on grass
Breaking: Sadiq Khan is a big fan of grass – and not the kind you can decriminalise. The Mayor of…
Prigozhin offered a terrifying glimpse into Russia’s future
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Russian military and political leadership may have stopped some 200 km short of Moscow, but…
Will Macron be forced to raise French taxes?
The inevitable is at last beginning to dawn on Emmanuel Macron. The extravagant spending spree initiated after the violent and…
What explains the remarkable rise of Germany’s AfD?
A common stereotype about Germans is that they love to complain – and there is certainly a kernel of truth to…
The invasion of the wheelie bins
Once I thought nothing could make residential Britain look uglier than pebble-dashing, PVC windows and satellite dishes. I was wrong. As…
The Wagner uprising has left Putin isolated
Both Vladimir Putin and the mercenary Wagner Group have been dramatically weakened by yesterday’s attempted coup. Wagner’s nominal leader, Yevgeny…
Prigozhin has made Putin more dangerous than ever
As rebel tanks trundled up the highway towards Moscow yesterday morning, Vladimir Putin labelled the mutinous mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin…
‘We’ve got to hold our nerve’: Rishi Sunak’s BBC interview
As mortgage rates surge and a new Opinium poll finds Labour’s lead has jumped to 18 points, Rishi Sunak appeared…
Why Pharrell Williams will make LVMH happy
Amid the dusk light, there’s hushed, excited chatter. And then drums, lights, and orchestral tones. It’s 10:18pm in Paris, and…
Did Putin’s allies flee Moscow?
As soon as the Wagner coup started, Ukrainian social media was full of memes of Vladimir Putin saying ‘I don’t…
Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory
Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…
Why Prigozhin rebelled
Civil war broke on Russia like a thunderstorm, replacing weeks of mounting political heat with a deluge of fire and…
A trophy hunting ban won’t save Africa’s wildlife
British rule over South Africa ended in 1910, but now parliament is busy with legislation that could have a devastating effect…
The self-delusion of ‘Bomber’ Harris
The scene in the German port was like a vision of hell. As the incendiary bombs rained down on Hamburg…
UFOs or not – something is up
As famous capital cities of world-straddling superpowers go, Washington DC is somewhat disappointing. The grandiose urbanism is surely meant to…
Putin faces challenge from his own creation
It took a characteristically long time for Vladimir Putin to respond to the coup-that-dare-not-speak-its-name launched by Yevgeny Prigozhin, but when…
Rostov-on-Don: scenes from an occupation
The main thoroughfare of Rostov-on-Don is today crawling with military vehicles and masked soldiers carrying automatics, and the entrance to…
Exiled Belarusian opposition calls for army to rise against Moscow
With Vladimir Putin facing armed insurrection from Prigozhin’s Wagner Group, the exiled opposition in Belarus has called for its military…
This failed coup will be just the beginning
Yevgeny Prigozhin has just exposed the full extent of Vladimir Putin’s weakness. In less than 24 hours, the leader of…
Full text: Putin on Wagner coup
Vladimir Putin has just released a speech to Russians after the Wagner mercenary group took over Russian military headquarters in…
My dog has been cancelled by Pride
Bella is a three-year-old dog of indeterminate breed. I found her by the side of the road. She is fearless,…
Japan’s dark history of forced sterilisation
A Japanese government report has revealed that over a 50-year period, under a policy of forced sterilisation, 16,500 people were…
Prigozhin leaves Rostov
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, has left Rostov-on-Don and ended the armed insurrection against Vladimir Putin.…
Could the election herald the rise of the small party?
These are heady times for Britain’s smaller political parties. Seldom has there been as much interest from voters in breaking…
My battle with bureaucracy behind bars
On my first night in prison, I slept well. Perhaps the previous day’s stress and exhaustion played a part. Neither…
