Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference
After two days of discord and division, Your Party has voted and it finally has a name – Your Party.…
Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget
The Budget is out and, as expected, its measures include the removal of the two-child benefit cap, along with tax…
Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials are only the start
Four days after a Budget is usually the time when it starts to unravel. Some within Labour see it as…
The downfall of Thomas King, Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous…
Inside the mind of Putin’s real negotiator
As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Trump’s peace plan next week, leaked recordings of…
Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity
Last year I visited Lincoln for the first time. It’s difficult to resist the elevated beauty and dominant cathedral, but…
The lost world of the British sex comedy
Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she…
Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus
This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10…
Are America’s women heading for the exit?
Life is apparently so disagreeable in Donald Trump’s America that 40 percent of women aged between 15 and 44 want…
John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet
John Lewis’s new ‘heirloom splendour’ Christmas decorations range features baubles that mimic a miniature vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, TV –…
The AI-human pairing needed to grow Australia’s prosperity
Blended workforces and a lighter regulatory touch
Chris Bowen: president of negotiating our decline
It has been recently reported that Chris Bowen, the Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister in the Albanese Cabinet, will…
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
‘Tom Stoppard is dead.’ For anyone who cares for the theatre, the English language, and especially for those of us…
Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog
Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history. This week Dublin City Council voted to change the name of Herzog Park…
Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a…
The ‘Your Party’ conference is a mess
It used to be said that the old Liberal party had so few MPs that they could fit in the…
Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah
The killing of Lebanese Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tababtabai by Israel this week reflects how much the balance of…
Pauline Hanson proves we have a two-tier senate
How convenient that Pauline Hanson is suspended from the Senate just as Black Friday sales kick off. Fingers crossed black…
Meet the e-girls selling European decline to America
Earlier this year, a striking 28-year-old woman, dressed head to toe in a vivid shade of crimson, stepped up to…
Why DC loves to hate Partiful
If you’re under 50, you may have noticed that Partiful has quietly annexed the American social calendar over the past…
Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe
The late Claude Lanzmann, director of the monumental Shoah – the nine-and-a-half hour documentary about the Holocaust, released in 1985…
We’ll miss juries when they’re gone
At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge…
The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous…
