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Liz Truss apologises for the chaos. What next?
Finally, we hear from the Prime Minister. Liz Truss has given an interview to the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason.…
The mystery of chronic Lyme disease
I struggled to pull myself out of bed in the morning. I slept for hours at lunch breaks and was…
Has Hunt restored the government’s fiscal credibility?
Jeremy Hunt set out at the start of the weekend with one goal in mind: that when the gilt markets…
Cancelled Kanye West buys cancelled free speech platform Parler
Hear Ye Hear Ye! The news today has broken that Kanye West – who calls himself Ye – has bought Parler, the…
Mordaunt faces the music as Truss’s understudy
When the phrases ‘the Prime Minister is not under a desk’ and ‘I don’t think there has been a coup’…
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become a cultural touchstone
At the beginning of 1962, President John F. Kennedy had high hopes for a peaceful year with the Soviet Union,…
Mordaunt: Truss isn’t ‘hiding’ under a desk
Oh dear. Liz Truss ducked the opportunity to come to the House to explain Jeremy Hunt’s U-turn earlier today. So…
Will the Nury Martinez fallout break Los Angeles politics?
The resignation of Nury Martinez, the first Latina president of the Los Angeles City Council, is a dramatic development that…
Watch: Tory Muppets show
Spiraling markets and grim-faced MPs don’t always make for the best of television viewing. Indeed, given the ongoing case in…
How Truss can secure her legacy
Liz Truss needs an exit strategy. Unless she can eke past Canning’s 119 days, the Prime Minister will go down…
Will there be a revolt on the Tory right?
What is the point of Liz Truss’s government? Expect more MPs to ask that question today after Jeremy Hunt’s statement…
It’s not easy to regain market trust
The government’s position has become so precarious – and its credibility with the markets so low – that even waiting…
Did Putin use Iranian martyr drones on Kyiv?
As Iranian munitions have hurtled through the air at the front line in the Donbas, and as Iranian suicide drones…
Joe Biden has jolted China
The chip war between China and America is heating up, with an increasingly assertive Joe Biden battling with Xi Jinping as…
Will Jeremy Hunt’s U-turns deepen recession?
Just two weeks ago, Liz Truss told the Tory conference that her priority was ‘growth, growth and growth’. But how…
Who would vote for the Conservatives now?
As the Labour party’s lead reaches 27 per cent or more, it would be easy to place the entirety of…
Can you feel sorry for Liz Truss?
It is not easy to feel sorry for Liz Truss. She has a deeply unattractive streak of vanity – when…
More mini-Budget U-turns coming today
In a sign of how nervous the government still is about the state of the gilts market, the Treasury has…
Nuclear power is the answer to our energy woes
America is about to spend $126.9 billion on renewable energy thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act. When this is added…
The right’s dangerous embrace of soft isolationism
Traditionally, the GOP has been the favorite of those concerned with safety and national security. The party of Ronald Reagan…
The Raphael Warnock debate gaffe the media missed
Herschel Walker’s performance in Friday night’s Georgia Senate debate provided a good example of the benefits of lowered expectations and…
How long can Liz Truss hold on?
How much trouble is Liz Truss in? Just six weeks into her premiership, the Prime Minister’s economic plans are in…
Jeremy Hunt is the ‘unity’ leader the Tories need
Liz Truss is now prime minister in name only: Jeremy Hunt, her chancellor of the exchequer, now holds power. He…
Watch: first Tory MP calls for Truss to go
In office, Liz Truss promised to be the ‘disruptor in chief’. Unfortunately, most of that disruption has proved to be…
Does Joe Biden know what ‘super-wealthy’ Americans pay in tax?
Joe Biden, ice cream in hand as so often, yesterday pronounced on Liz Truss’s tax reform disaster. ‘I wasn’t the…
