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Watch: rehearsals held for the Queen’s funeral
Preparations in Whitehall continue at pace ahead of Her Majesty’s funeral on Monday. And for a handful of hardy souls…
It’s time to scrap the cap on bankers’ bonuses
Critics say that scrapping the cap on bankers’ bonus will encourage a return to excessive risk taking. It will provoke retaliation…
In defence of Rangers’ royal tribute
Ibrox stadium, home of Rangers football club, saw a powerful tribute to the late Queen last night before the team’s…
Why is the BBC using Paddington to remember Her Majesty?
Here comes Paddington – again. Earlier this year, to celebrate her platinum jubilee, the Queen agreed to be filmed taking…
Fact check: did Charles make Andrew a Counsellor of State?
What better way to mark the death of the monarch than via some good old royal disinformation? Twitter users have…
What Xi wants from Central Asia
President Xi Jinping hasn’t stepped outside his country since the pandemic began. For almost three years, China’s elderly leaders have…
Biden is treating his political opponents like domestic terrorists
What is going on in America? A celebrity eccentric known as ‘the Pillow guy’, his real name is Mike Lindell,…
Center Parcs’s royal blunder
Whacking up the price of black ties given the extra demand. Running advertising campaigns for cut price comfort food to…
Has inflation peaked?
This morning’s surprise update from the Office for National Statistics shows headline inflation at 9.9 per cent on the year…
Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil’s football fight
Brazil’s football strip is one of the most recognisable garments in sport, perhaps the most potent symbol of Brazil’s sizeable…
Zemmour is his own worst enemy
Eric Zemmour is back. The bogeyman of French politics spent the summer licking his wounds after his far-right Reconquest party…
The sorry state of republicanism
As republican protestors seek to disrupt the handing on of the title of head of state from one royal to…
Norway says ‘no’ to a gas price cap
One implication of the Russian gas shut-off is that Norway has now become the EU’s largest single supplier of natural…
President Biden still can’t get a grip on inflation
Oil prices have been falling steeply, reducing prices at the pumps. Wheat prices have dropped as supplies from Ukraine start…
New York Times in civil war over WFH
It’s a grim old time in Westminster at the moment. The Queen is dead, prices are up, inflation is rampant…
Can we trust the official employment figures?
In this week of mourning, much of the news which would normally get covered has sunk without trace. Even so,…
Will New Zealand ever become a republic?
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that her government will not be pursuing any moves toward changing…
Has war broken out again between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Overnight, it seems as if a new war might have broken out in Europe. Armenian authorities claim that at least…
David Bowie was not authentic
The death of the Queen has led to a host of peculiar postponements. Perhaps the strangest was the announcement that…
Who’s afraid of firing Trevor Sinclair?
Trevor Sinclair is in trouble again. The former England footballer, who is now a pundit for TalkSport, has been taken…
Why conservatives are happier than liberals
Ross Pomeroy, editor of RealClearScience, calls it “one of the most surefire findings in all of social psychology, repeatedly replicated…
Would Putin take an ‘off ramp’ out of Ukraine?
Over the past few days, the Ukrainians have upended assumptions about the war with Russia. They have shown it was…
Putin is cornered
On the evening of Sunday 11 September, a general alert was announced in nearly all the regions of Ukraine. A…
Why are some French mayors refusing to honour the Queen?
Why, asked a French mayor at the weekend, has he been ordered to fly his town’s flag at half-mast for…
Police should leave anti-monarchist protesters alone
No one should ever be arrested for what they think or say. It is remarkable – and depressing – that…
