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The Hamit Coskun appeal is a victory for free speech
The conviction of Hamit Coskun of a public order offence for burning a Quran has today been overturned by Southwark…
Why does Jared Leto still have a career?
This weekend, Tron: Ares releases across US cinemas, and is expected to make a decent, rather than record-setting, amount of…
How the Royals jumped on the Mental Health Day bandwagon
Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or…
A judge has finally seen sense over the SAS’s ambush of three IRA men
It didn’t take long for a judge to deliver his withering verdict on a judicial review application into the use…
The parole system still prioritises offenders over victims
David Norris, one of the men who murdered the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, had his parole hearing this week, but…
The Nobel snub won’t bother Trump
Of course, Donald Trump has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Scandinavian grandees on the committee wouldn’t dream of…
Donald Trump is an awful person – but a brilliant president
Donald Trump is a bully. He is a braggart. He is venal. But, as this week’s ceasefire deal between Israel…
SNP conference to vote on provisional parliament
It’s the SNP’s big weekend out as party members and politicians make the painstaking journey to Aberdeen for the nationalists’…
Why does Trump even want a Nobel Peace Prize?
Did anyone seriously think that Donald Trump was going to emerge this morning as winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?…
Zack Polanski’s humiliating breast hypnosis climbdown
To BBC Question Time, where new leader of the Greens Zack Polanski spent much of the evening sparring with Reform…
How Rachel Reeves can escape the doom loop
Rachel Reeves is trapped in an economic ‘doom loop’: high debt, low growth and higher debt again. But, as pessimists’…
Britain should be wary of BYD, China’s EV powerhouse
From Thailand to Brazil, a surge of imports from Chinese electric vehicle (EV) producer BYD has the familiar pattern of…
Can the NHS’s anti-Semitism problem be fixed?
The NHS has an anti-Semitism problem, and Wes Streeting wants to fix it. This week he announced plans to ‘make…
What will the Israel haters do now?
Normal people are cheering the prospect of peace in Gaza. Some might even raise a glass to Donald Trump for…
Corbyn’s Your Party is no joke
Over the past few weeks, many of us have watched with evident schadenfreude as Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah…
State school kids will pay for Labour’s International Baccalaureate crackdown
It appears that Labour is determined to ensure that choice in education is only for those who can afford it.…
Give the Nobel to Jared
On a season eight episode of The Simpsons, newscaster Kent Brockman interviews a man who’s woken up from a 23-year-long…
Life in Chicago with ICE and the National Guard
Every day, Chicagoans outside the immediate areas where federal forces are deploying pick up fragments of what feels like an…
Starmer: ‘no ministers’ involved in China case collapse
To India, where Keir Starmer has met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the UK-India trade deal and learn…
What’s wrong with ‘over-testing’ for prostate cancer?
According to a recent study at Oxford, celebrity prostate cancer awareness campaigns have contributed to the over-testing of white, wealthy…
Revealed: the Lib Dems’ plan for Tory defectors
Reform UK’s momentum is influencing other parties too. The Greens voted overwhelmingly to elect Zack Polanski last month, partly on…
Papà, you are wrong: Meloni is complicit in genocide
On Saturday, our Italy correspondent Nicholas Farrell asked readers for their help in persuading his Italian wife and six children…
Yousaf: it is ‘difficult’ to accept Trump as peacemaker
After two years of war, both Hamas and the Israeli government have agreed to a ceasefire deal brokered by US…
Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for his Hamas-Israel deal
In confirming the Israel-Hamas peace deal on Truth Social last night, Donald Trump referenced the seventh Beatitude from the Gospel…
Has Trump won peace – or a pause?
Donald Trump is on a roll. He not only wrangled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into submission, but also the terrorist…
