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The New York Times’s hatred of Israel has blinded it to reality
So Israel is suing the New York Times. Not before time, if you ask me. Particularly since October 7 – the sexual depravities of…
Why Andy Burnham is the next Nicola Sturgeon
Burnham’s supporters talk up a Manchester ‘productivity miracle’ but the data underpinning that claim looks a tad dodgy.
The seven Tory frontbenchers on course to lose to Reform
While Labour continues down its path of self-destruction, Reform and the Tories are having a whale of a time watching the left…
The voters of Makerfield should give Burnham the boot
A people’s revolt against Burnhamism in the upcoming by-election, with Reform as their cudgel, would be great fun
Three bets for Newbury and beyond
The top three horses in the market, Damysus, Zeus Olympios and Notable Speech, all have a chance of landing the first prize of…
Streeting’s NHS record is nothing to boast about
Wes Streeting’s record as Health Secretary under Keir Starmer has been no wild success, but no abject failure either
Rivals is an ode to Thatcherite excess
In the Rutshire universe, money and sex are aspirational rather than evil, a Buck’s Fizz antidote to our soulless…
Why do Zoomers ape old age?
I’m not bewildered by younger people because their idea of a good time sounds wonderfully un-exhausting. Generation Z bears…
Wes Streeting would be a disastrous PM – but not for the reason you think
Even if a Wes Streeting premiership would be a disaster, we don’t need to spend much more time on the idea
Trump needs a deal, but Xi needs it more
Trump’s visit to China this week to meet with Xi is a great opportunity for both men to strike a win-win deal
Prince Harry’s fears for our ‘divided country’ are hard to swallow
Harry, if you were so worried about Britain, why did you leave?
What Streeting won’t tell us about his record as Health Secretary
Wes Streeting’s resignation letter began with a paragraph praising his own record in managing the NHS. He said: “The results are…
The Burnham Gambit: Makerfield or Breakerfield?
This is a high-stakes gamble for everyone involved. But then, in Labour politics right now, everything is
Watch: Michael Gove informs cabinet of Burnham manoeuvres
When Wes Streeting resigned, there was a brief – very brief – feeling of reprieve among some of Sir Keir Starmer’s allies. They…
Nigel Farage’s big Brexit gift
As Labour MPs carry on tearing bits out of each other, the story of Nigel Farage’s £5 million gift from crypto billionaire…
Live: The Labour MPs calling for Sir Keir Starmer to go
A devastating set of local elections has left Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership on the brink. Calls for the Prime Minister to exit…
Wes Streeting finally resigns
Few people who have worked for and with Keir Starmer will disagree with that assessment of his ruthlessness.
Why I had to resign
Wes Streeting has, finally, resigned as Health Secretary. Below is the full text of his resignation letter to Keir Starmer: Dear…
Was Macron slapped because of this Iranian actress?
It was the slap that shook the world. Not so much from shock but laughter, as cameras caught the Macrons having a domestic on an…
Al Carns is ready to run
Dark horse Labour leadership contender Al Carns is ready to run for the top job. The former special forces colonel and pull-up…
Why we should let the police scan your face
The use of facial recognition technology to catch criminals is controversial. Earlier this year Essex police paused a trial of…
The joy of iced buns
‘It’s just a hot dog bun with icing!’ the iced-bun detractors will shriek. I’m a lady with a lot of opinions about fairly…
The secret to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s racehorse success
You meet an eclectic bunch of people in the horse-racing business. Yet it was at prep school 55 years ago that I first met Simon…
Make the fez great again
Ireturned from a recent holiday to Morocco with three mementos: a bright red pair of swimming trunks (teenager-sized; the largest…
‘It’s like a Mexican standoff but no one has any guns’: inside the farcical…
It is an old adage of leadership contests that ‘If you shoot for the King, you’d better not miss’ – but no one expected the…
The three things Trump wants from his China trip
Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week, and when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning he will want…
Farage’s plan to win over the left
The loudest man in politics knows when to keep his silence. Nigel Farage held his tongue on Monday as Keir Starmer’s premiership…
How the Saudis wriggled out of the Iran conflict
Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said it was…
What the Two Fat Ladies taught us about Britain
‘Grab that crab, Clarissa!/ Eat that meat, Jennifer!’ It was with these words – the start of their self-sung theme tune – that…
It’s time to uncancel Enoch Powell
Despite a career of nearly half a century in public life, Enoch Powell is generally remembered for one utterance only: the…
Stopping the boats shouldn’t require magical thinking
The BBC’s tracking-down of Kardo Ranya as a people-smuggling mastermind is a triumph of investigative journalism. But anyone who…
Rosalia's O2 show was a landmark concert
If Olivia Dean is the girl next door, Rosalia is the girl next planet. Their shows in successive weeks at the O2 – Dean had six…
The BBC at its nation-unifying best
Children of the Blitz began with the surprising news – to me anyway – that while 800,000 British children in places likely to be…
A charmingly bold food podcast
It takes some gumption to name a podcast History’s Greatest Dishes and proceed to offer episodes on pizza, blancmange, balti,…
A Beatles show without the love
Please Please Me is a play about Brian Epstein whose brief and troubled life remains relatively unknown. Tom Wright’s linear…
The Trocks’ shtick is getting tired
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo were popular regulars at Washington’s Kennedy Center until Trump’s demented blast against…
The Christophers is delicious
Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers is a deliciously sly, twisty, darkly comedic take on the art world starring Ian McKellen who…
The British modernist who was airbrushed from history
Elsewhere in British music in 1960: William Walton was writing his Symphony No 2, Benjamin Britten his opera on Midsummer Night’s…
Monte Carlo isn't glamorous
Monte Carlo nowadays has all the appearance of absurd amounts of wealth but very little in the way of glamour.
Andy Burnham is no saviour
The outcome of the Prime Minister’s make-or-break speech yesterday morning was never really in any doubt, was it? It’s break. Did…
Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ was just more slop
Despite a leadership challenge from Wood Green MP Catherine West, it was clear that Starmer was here to fight on.
TV doesn’t ruin childhood, but phones might
A previous generation feared that the rise of television would put an end to children reading. It didn’t. But phones might
Rent reforms haven’t fixed the real problem
What the Renters' Rights Act fails to tackle is one of the market’s biggest downfalls: indolent letting agents themselves.
China’s theft of American AI tech is becoming more brazen
Last year, Trump scaled back tariffs and abandoned other restrictions on Chinese companies after Beijing weaponised rare earths.