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Why Australia is recognising Palestine
In 1968, the American broadcaster Walter Cronkite told his national TV audience the United Stated was losing the war in…
How Russia is preparing for Putin’s meeting with Trump
Amidst contradictory leaks and rumours coming from the US administration, no one is quite sure what to expect when Donald…
Could the Arctic be key to ending the Ukraine war?
‘It is in Alaska and in the Arctic that the economic interests of our countries converge and prospects for implementing…
George Galloway to stand in Holyrood election
What comes around goes around. After a short stint in Westminster after he won the Rochdale by-election in February 2024,…
Don’t forget Nicola Sturgeon’s real legacy
Nicola Sturgeon gets an easy ride with the English media. This weekend, with a book to flog and an image…
I’m embracing my inner Karen
I told off four strangers last week. The first was a foreign gentleman lounging on a side lawn at Marble…
Is Hollywood’s woke era ending?
On reading that Dean Cain (the actor who played the television Superman) had become an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Howard Stern disappeared years ago
It’s hard to say out loud, but it looks like The Howard Stern Show may finally be winding down at…
Why Trump must build a nuclear reactor on the Moon
Sean Duffy, the secretary of transportation whom President Trump appointed last month as temporary leader of NASA, has issued a…
Does Northumberland really want to see the return of lynx?
Farming is hard, and sheep farming especially so. Sheep are endearing but awkward creatures, generally looking for the most inconvenient…
South Korea’s reconciliation plan with the North is doomed to fail
On both sides of the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea, loudspeakers blasting news, music, weather reports, wailing…
Why is it still acceptable to abuse men with long hair?
It was a hairy situation. At a drab corporate dinner in a posh hotel basement, one of my fellow diners…
The demonisation of Israeli ‘settlers’
In the UK today, hold the wrong view and you’re cast as beyond the pale. Brexiteers are bigots. If you…
What if Starmer had been prime minister in the second world war?
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has posed a fascinating counter-factual question about our Prime Minister: what if Keir…
Can ‘China Studies’ still be trusted?
It is generally agreed that Britain needs to improve its China capabilities. That a greater understanding of Chinese culture, history…
Snowshoeing with septuagenarians
Wading through breakup grief, I’d hit the haziest stage of recovery, somewhere between lying horizontal in dark rooms, and shaving…
How to jail the Russian hoax colluders
Now comes word that Attorney General Pam Bondi is opening a grand jury investigation into the attempt to falsely dragoon…
The death of banter and the BBC
I may be the last person in the UK to have seen the 1999 film Human Traffic (rereleased last month).…
The case for Biggles
The first Cold War thriller I ever read – before MacLean, before Le Carre, before Clancy – was Biggles Buries…
The great British pub is not dead yet
My Oxfordshire taproom used to sing on Fridays: carpenters, teachers and office clerks, knackered from the week’s graft, would elbow…
The joy of flying will never die
The golden era of flying is over: rowdy passengers, greedy airlines and miserable airports make travelling nowadays rather grim. The…
A Trump-branded peace deal
Mount Ararat rises over Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, its peak often lost in clouds. It is the country’s national symbol, yet…
Putin awards Order of Lenin to CIA chief’s son
John Reed, a young Harvard graduate and journalist, thought highly of the Bolshevik revolution and chronicled it in his book…
The nauseating hypocrisy of Kneecap
You truly could not make it up. Kneecap, who spent the past three months whingeing and complaining about their gigs…
You were never meant to know about the court service IT bug
Another day, another scandal in Britain’s collapsing public sector. Today’s concerns the country’s courts. A BBC investigation has turned up an…
