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Dawn French’s M&S Christmas ad is an insult to Jews
Being born, shall we say, under a different star, there are no official Christmas celebrations in our house. Sure, it’s…
David Lammy can’t blame the Tories for the latest prison release debacle
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions – taken by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy – had a sting in the tail. The…
China’s South Korean espionage campaign is growing bolder
It is rare to see Xi Jinping burst into laughter. But something must have tickled China’s Paramount Leader when he…
Watch: Lammy humiliated by prisoner release
They say that pride comes before a fall – and so it proved today at PMQs. In the wake of…
David Lammy’s missing PMQs poppy
Oh dear. It seems that the hapless hero of Haringey has done it again. David Lammy is filling in for…
Humans are more than just apes
Revolutions in science happen like Mike’s bankruptcy in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: slowly, then suddenly. For the past two…
Trump is being misled on Venezuela
President Trump is being misled into a regime-change war close to home. Few Americans nowadays find much to celebrate in…
William’s Rio trip risks being overshadowed
Cometh the hour, cometh the Prince of Wales. At least, that is what Prince William and those around him will…
The cruel, cold intellect of DC and San Francisco
New York vs Los Angeles is done to death. Those cities have already captured the American heart on stage and…
Half of voters prefer AI to Keir Starmer
The human race, controlled by a soulless, robotic overlord. It is the stuff of countless sci-fi dystopias – but here…
Where can I get some meth?
I was born in Santa Monica, California. So were four of my children. When I was little, Santa Monica was…
In Cuba, a revolution is over
If you’ve ever thought of visiting the crocodile-shaped island of Cuba, or run into someone recently returned from sultry nights…
Has Los Angeles killed America’s imagination?
The magnificent Griffith Park Observatory turned 90 this year and, as fans of nonagenarians, my wife and I hiked up…
Why bother banning US booze in Canada?
You know what they say about America: beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties…
Go to Cicoria for the food, stay for the opera
Smart Italian restaurants in cultural destinations are like buses: you wait ages for one and suddenly two come along at…
Zohran Mamdani’s policies will make restaurants bland and expensive
There’s no shortage of catastrophic predictions for New York City under Zohran Mamdani’s leadership. While we probably won’t see breadlines,…
What doesn’t kill Egly-Ouriet makes it stronger
In recent columns, we have visited some lesser known spots in Burgundy – Saint-Romain, Maranges, Ladoix – where the wines…
Uzbekistan by high-speed rail
I am in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. I am standing in a historic complex of madrasas and mosques, courtyards…
The cowardly publishing world betrayed Kate Clanchy
Has the vibe shift finally hit the publishing world? There might just be some hope that one of the industries…
The ‘John Lewis approach’ won’t fix workshy Britain
Like the John Lewis Partnership he used to run, Sir Charlie Mayfield, who has just completed the government’s ‘Keep Britain…
Could private credit cause the next financial crash?
The recent bankruptcies of a little-known auto-parts supplier called First Brands and auto lender Tricolorhas sparked talk about a looming financial crisis…
Zohran Mamdani will destroy New York
William F. Buckley Jr once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston…
Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?
So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the…
Keir Starmer is letting China abuse our libel laws
The enormous cost of British libel law is a threat to national security. For the sake of enriching London barristers,…
The Rosetta Stone does not belong in Egypt
It was inevitable that the Grand Egyptian Museum outside Cairo would accompany its much-delayed opening with demands for the restitution…
