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Jeffrey Archer on his final novel, Margaret Thatcher and his perfect day

7 October 2026 5:15 am

Michael Gove interviewed Jeffrey Archer in late September, several weeks before the novelist and politician died at the age of…

Badenoch’s ‘Britannia shield’ won’t stop Russia

7 October 2026 1:15 am

In March 1983, Ronald Reagan announced on television that the era of mutually assured destruction could come to an end…

Is the Home Office finally waking up to the migrant threat to women?

7 October 2026 12:38 am

Illegal migration is a threat to women and girls. That grim fact has gradually dawned on the public, as the…

Cutting inheritance tax is immoral

6 October 2026 11:54 pm

Kemi Badenoch is set to announce that the Tories will cut inheritance tax, a levy she has described as ‘immoral’.…

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Why the summer season never ends

6 October 2026 11:22 pm

Summer’s over – so say the Cape, the Shore and the Sound. But summer homes in the country remain wide…

Should protests be allowed on 7 October?

6 October 2026 11:20 pm

It is, of course, no accident of timing that this Wednesday – the third anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October terrorist…

The Lebanonisation of Britain is well under way

6 October 2026 10:45 pm

The Green party’s open declaration of war on Britain’s Jews is not really about the Green party or Britain’s Jews…

AI could make government small again

6 October 2026 10:43 pm

For decades, we on the liberal right have been sold the fiction that Republican lawmakers are fighting for small government.…

Russia’s Communists have remembered how to oppose Putin

6 October 2026 10:14 pm

Not dead, only resting. Of all the country’s fake parliamentary opposition parties, it is Russia’s Communists who are still showing…

There will never be another Jeffrey Archer

6 October 2026 8:15 pm

The news of the death of Jeffrey Archer at 86 came in somehow typical circumstances. The bestselling novelist, Conservative peer…

Jeffrey Archer, interviewed

6 October 2026 7:45 pm

Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. The novelist and former Conservative party deputy chairman died ‘suddenly and…

Why are progressives so desperately devoted to the BBC?

6 October 2026 7:13 pm

The BBC is lopping bits of itself off again. On the amputation list this time around, according to the Gurdian,…

Why are so many children not potty trained by school?

6 October 2026 7:00 pm

Parenting in 2026 can sometimes feel like a nauseating all-you-can-eat competition. Without a traditional ‘village’ to turn to, you consume a…

Is Andrew staging a comeback?

6 October 2026 6:00 pm

The past year has not been a happy one for the royal formerly known as Prince Andrew. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has…

Man City, not Arsenal, really represents Britain

6 October 2026 5:00 pm

When you hear that that something represents the best of Britain, treat it as nonsense. The phrase ‘best of British’…

How #Palestine became the ultimate elitist pursuit

6 October 2026 2:39 pm

Few places make for a less likely fashion hub than the agricultural community of Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.…

Is it really true that a mosque is attacked every five days in Britain?

6 October 2026 1:22 pm

A new body paid millions of pounds to be the Government’s official monitor of anti-Muslim hatred has made multiple false claims about…

Will Jon Ossoff’s luck last long enough for a run at the presidency?

6 October 2026 12:00 pm

Once upon a time, the export crop of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket was whale oil. Nowadays it is money, harpooned…

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What’s it like to get sick in Cuba?

6 October 2026 12:00 pm

I have dengue, a vile and potentially life-threatening virus given to me by an Aedes mosquito. For good reason, it…

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The Bolsonaro comeback that has stunned the Brazilian left

6 October 2026 6:46 am

Against all the odds, Flávio Bolsonaro – the son of former president Jair Bolsonaro – has come first in Brazil’s presidential…

Burnham and Farage don’t fear the Tories… yet

6 October 2026 4:59 am

It was a big day for the Tory conference. There was a real celebrity in town. Normally the sort of…

The Flydubai attacker’s motive was even darker than we thought

6 October 2026 4:07 am

Israel came terrifyingly close to a mass-casualty aviation attack that could have killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, and severed the country’s…

Exclusive: Labour MPs report the Green party to the police

6 October 2026 3:48 am

More than a dozen Labour MPs have reported the Green party to Sussex police and the EHRC over its ‘Zionism…

Exclusive: US will make ‘representations’ about Greens’ zionism policy

6 October 2026 3:25 am

The US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism will make ‘representations’ to the UK government following the Green party’s…

The Green party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ motion is unforgivable

6 October 2026 3:13 am

Anti-Semitism always comes dressed as virtue. The peasant mobs that hunted Jewish “Christ-killers” really believed they were defending God’s honour.…