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Hollywood luvvies have become Donald Trump’s useful idiots
In events that were foreseeable to anyone outside America’s cultural elite, the actress and popstar Selena Gomez is facing an…
Why Rachel Reeves’ growth plan is doomed to flop
The wait is over. After six months in government, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has decided that today is the day…
DeepSeek shows the stakes for humanity couldn’t be higher
What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI system that’s shaken the world, and what does it reveal about our future? While…
Reform is on the up – but it could easily come unstuck
British politics is in a new place: the combined polling score of Labour and the Conservatives is below 50 per…
Enter Atelier Arena
What do the musicians Paul Weller and Daryl Hall, the gallerist Iwan Worth, and the actor Gary Oldman have in…
Get ready for Trump’s ‘FAFO’ foreign policy
President Donald Trump posted an AI-picture of a gangster version of himself on Instagram at around 3 p.m. Sunday. Behind…
The ‘dejudification’ of the Holocaust
Imagine talking about the transatlantic slave trade and not saying the word African. Or discussing the genocidal slaughter in Rwanda…
Is it time to take Trump’s Gaza resettlement plan seriously?
As Donald Trump toys with the audacious idea of relocating Gaza’s population – whether to neighbouring Jordan and Egypt, or…
Real men go grocery shopping
A Jesse Watters Fox News segment flashed across my timeline recently, and I took it very personally. In the segment,…
The magical remaking of Melania Trump
Of all the images that emerged from the new administration last week, few were as meaningful and portentous as Melania Trump…
‘Non-crime hate incidents’ are a threat to free speech
There’s more than meets the eye to today’s story of a leaked Home Office report calling for police to be encouraged to…
The new Champions League format has been a disaster
Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain could be knocked out of the Champions League tomorrow night. So thank God for the…
Why do Home Office staff think talk of two-tier policing is ‘extremist’?
How do you create a low-trust society? One way to do so is to have an administrative class which seems to treat…
Why Putin is feeling more confident
At a recent closed-door session in Ukraine’s parliament, Kyrylo Budanov, the country’s spy chief, was asked how much longer Ukraine…
Rachel Reeves can’t ‘regulate for growth’
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are under pressure to reduce red tape in the…
Will Labour MPs back Rachel Reeves’s growth plan?
It’s ‘growth week’ in government, as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves attempts to convince sceptical business leaders, bankers and voters that…
Is the UK prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?
One million people will migrate to the UK every year this decade. The result: the UK population will grow by…
How DeepSeek can help Britain
Sometimes a new technology comes along that immediately shakes the world. The release this week of the new Chinese artificial…
Home Office: ‘two-tier’ police claims are an ‘extreme right-wing’ narrative
You can tell a government report has gone down badly when ministers are distancing themselves before it has been officially…
Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%
It is easy enough to trace the point at which local authorities embarked on the sad, downwards journey which has…
Will Rachel Reeves walk the walk on going for growth?
On the face of it, the Chancellor’s big growth speech tomorrow could be one of this government’s most significant interventions…
The hypocrisy of Ed Miliband’s vanity photographer
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, comes across as something of a political nerd, determined to bankrupt the country with his…
Kim Leadbeater U-turns once again
Another week and another U-turn on Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill. The 23-man committee scrutinising the legislation is supposed to…
DeepSeek has brought China’s ‘Sputnik moment’
In the years since ChatGPT’s debut, the world of artificial intelligence development has been defined by a single obsession: scale.…
Syria feels close to a zone of anarchy
Travelling from Syria’s Highway 42, which runs from Tabqa to the city of Homs, you can see the corpse of…
