How long can Putin openly defy Trump?
What happens when you repeatedly defy President Trump’s direct orders? Or lie to his face, again and again? How about…
Man arrested after Liverpool parade car crash
A 53-year-old man was arrested on Monday after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool supporters during their Premier League trophy…
Watch: Macron’s wife caught shoving him in face
Oh dear. It seems there’s trouble in one couple’s Parisian paradise after French president Emmanuel Macron was caught on camera…
The crisis facing the Royal Navy
General Sir Gwyn Jenkins is stepping into the role of First Sea Lord at a difficult time, with the Royal…
Poll: trust in Starmer on migration falls again
Oh dear. It seems that all Keir Starmer’s talk of an ‘island of strangers’ really wasn’t worth it. For a…
George Simion: the football ultra who nearly took Romania
Bucharest, Romania Surely it’s only a matter of time before someone writes Children of the Deal: a portrait gallery of populists,…
Russia seizes on Kemi’s ‘proxy’ comment
It has not been an enjoyable bank holiday weekend for Kemi Badenoch. The Sunday Times contained not one, but two,…
Alan Yentob was what the BBC should be
Let us create a hypothetical situation in which we have a state funded broadcaster in perpetuity. Who would you wish…
There will never be another Alan Yentob
In the excellent BBC comedy series W1A, which poked a harsher degree of fun at its makers than many would…
J.B. Pritzker once thwarted a coup, why is he trying to start one on US soil?
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s incendiary speech last month calling on Democrats to organize massive civil unrest against the Trump Administration…
Bring back Whitsun!
Bank Holidays are like buses- you wait ages for one before they all come along at once. Tomorrow will be…
Labor’s energy crisis ends up on your bill
From Shanghai (perhaps for the last time): I’ve just finished my last teaching gig as a full-time academic. It is…
Could France’s next president come from the Yellow Hats?
When Donald Trump first burst onto the political scene in 2016, comparisons were drawn with a 1950s Frenchman called Pierre…
Means-testing winter fuel was obviously correct
I’ve seen a lot of people, lately, making the case that the big problem with Sir Keir Starmer’s government is…
The sad death of the English pub
It was a drizzly Tuesday evening in the 17th-century Oxford village pub I manage, the kind of night when regulars…
Danes are baffled by Britain’s hatred of second-home owners
Spring has arrived on the North Coast of Zealand, and my fellow Danes are busily scrubbing down their summerhouses for…
Gary Lineker isn’t the only quiet man of football to find his voice
Sometimes it’s the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Gary Lineker, who presented his final Match of the…
The shrinking habitat of Net Zero extremists
Net Zero is under threat in New Zealand, according to headlines last week. Although the population of New Zealand and…
How Biden became Trump’s useful political milksop
It turns out that Joe Biden is one of the best things ever to happen to Donald Trump. Sure, Trump…
The NHS should be Farage’s next hobby horse
Nigel Farage’s march to the left continues. Reform is now committed not just to reinstating winter fuel payments for all…
Kneecap are not rebels
Better rebels than Kneecap would’ve begun their headline set at Wide Awake festival in south London on Friday night with…
The welfare select committee is wasting its time
The Work and Pensions Committee’s recent safeguarding report reminded me of the worst thing about working in politics: other people…
Rayner denies leadership ambitions and Kemi humiliated on Sky
Rayner: ‘Can’t guarantee’ winter fuel payments will be on time for this winter Keir Starmer announced a partial U-turn on…
