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Inside the Ukrainian army’s art division
The Ukrainian Cultural Forces’ headquarters is situated above a non-descript shopping center not far outside downtown Kyiv. The walls are…
A lot can happen in Makerfield this weekend
It’s been another bizarre week in Westminster, with Sir Keir Starmer going about business as if everything is completely normal…
Keir Starmer and the myth of the metropolitan elite
We are meant to be living in the age of the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’. Professor Matt Goodwin and David Goodhart…
What’s wrong with heckling Rachel Reeves?
As Mrs Thatcher stood to give her speech at the 1980 Conservative party conference at Brighton, she was under considerable…
Why politicians love (to be seen) jogging
We saw rather more of Andy Burnham’s legs than most of us might have wished when he was photographed out…
The glorious revival of Paris’s English bookshop
Stepping into Smith & Son bookshop across from the Tuileries, my first instinct is to look for signs of change.…
Will Labour’s sick note crackdown work?
‘Can I have one last present?’ my daughter asked earlier this week, having turned 15 and covered the kitchen floor…
The art world isn’t free
Artistic freedom is often treated as a modern ideal, but history tells a more complicated story. From religious patronage to…
Why did police handcuff Henry Nowak?
Britain’s police are meant to police without fear or favor, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that they don’t…
The Ministry of Defence is failing to prepare Britain for war
In the last 20 or 25 years, there has been a much greater understanding that a country’s ‘national security’ encompasses…
France could block Britain from rejoining the EU
Labour’s dream of rejoining the European Union may be an ambition to warm the heart of Emmanuel Macron but it…
Andy Burnham’s faux insurgent act fools no one
Today, in what will doubtless be just the first of many irritations inflicted on the unfortunate people of Makerfield, Labour…
When teenage rapists walk free
A gang of teenage traveller boys who filmed themselves raping lone schoolgirls on two occasions have been spared jail. It seems…
What’s wrong with supermarkets making money?
The British public struggles to distinguish between large numbers and large margins. On Wednesday, amid swirling debates about the government’s nudging of supermarkets to…
In praise of Thomas Tuchel’s England squad
For England coach Thomas Tuchel, the real work has just begun. Forget the phoney war of a qualifying group in which…
Thomas Tuchel’s England team has angered everyone
Thomas Tuchel is an England boss who isn’t afraid to be brutal and he doesn’t apparently much care for big names…
Green MP takes ‘burnout’ leave
Residents of Bristol Central will not be represented in parliament for ‘several weeks’, the Green Party announced today. And why…
Does Andy Burnham know what a woman is?
Can Andy Burnham define ‘a woman’? The correct answer is ‘an adult human female’, though I would also accept ‘someone…
Ben-Gvir’s crass gloating isn’t the worst thing about the Gaza flotilla
Imagine if, in 1941, as we were fighting for our lives against the German menace, a boatload of foreign narcissists…
Afghanistan is crumbling
On Monday, an engineer set himself on fire in a Kabul street because he could not find work to feed…
Green Party’s former Makerfield candidate shared antisemitic conspiracies
Yesterday, the Green Party announced that its candidate for the Makerfield by-election was quitting the race less than ten hours…
Burnham’s buses show why he will probably fail as prime minister
It’s one of those political facts that everyone parrots without really knowing whether it’s true: Andy Burnham has, in his…
Why the Pentagon has Nigeria in its sights
For the Pentagon, Nigeria is firmly on the list of countries where terror has run amok. In 2025 and again…
Labour’s day of trans reckoning arrives
More than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex, Labour has finally…
Why did the Queen push for Andrew to become a trade envoy?
The Andrew formerly known as “Prince” was always supposedly his mother’s favorite child. He had a degree of indulgence paid…
