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With a smiling and evidently self-satisfied Israeli PM Netanyahu beside him, President Trump on Tuesday made an announcement on the future of Gaza...
After she was elected, Kemi Badenoch told her shadow cabinet that she wouldn’t reveal any major policies for at least two years, so maybe this is a...
Businesses, borrowers and especially Rachel Reeves breathed a sigh of relief when the Bank of England delivered its widely expected interest rate...
The pain has been almost tangible in Notting Dale, west London, since the fate of Grenfell Tower was announced this week. Many people – the...
Like a ray of sunlight through a break in the winter clouds, the reduction in interest rates by the Bank of England offers a glimpse of better...
Given everything that she’s done since becoming chancellor of the Exchequer, the odd thing about Rachel Reeves is that she’s still in the job....
Sometime this year, Halifax’s House Price Index will put the average cost of a British home at more than £300,000. It might already be there. The...
Benjamin Netanyahu said that Donald Trump was “thinking outside the box with fresh ideas” and “showing willingness to puncture conventional...
Could it happen here? Could a Donald Trump tribute act sweep into power in the UK, trash the existing order, and overwhelm the system with a series...
LUNCH AT THE CHELSEA ARTS CLUB I almost missed it by most of a month, diary dates Knotting in a confusion of emails as I focused on painting,...
More than seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire took the lives of 72 people, the blackened remains of the block have been marked for...
This week has marked a new, horrifying phase in the long history of attempts to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their homeland....
Last month was the hottest January on record – the latest in a string of terrifying broken records – and this weekend marks the first anniversary...
D onald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants has certainly seized the world’s attention. The...
Dear Vix , I have a huge problem – I can’t stop lying . When I see friends and they ask me how things are going, I’ll tell them about people...
D onald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza be ethnically cleansed of its Palestinian inhabitants has certainly seized the world’s attention. The...
Labour is making plans for Nigel – how to combat Nigel Farage, that is. Until recently, Keir Starmer’s allies believed Reform UK would mainly...
When Rachel Reeves increased national insurance for employers in last October’s Budget, she also put a dent in annual pay rises. Her recent...
The latest mutterings from the super-brain that is Donald Trump, on his ideas for the future of Gaza, describe the area as a “demolition site”...
Donald Trump referred to the Palestinian population of Gaza and the horrors they’ve endured there as bad “luck” no less than four times, as if the...
“Shocked, but not surprised” should be the sensible reaction to Donald Trump’s bizarre idea to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle...
Asia woke up to a new shock in the trade war. In a move as simple as it was drastic, the United States suspended the shipment of small packages...
The NHS saved my life. There’s no doubt about it. I went into A&E with kidney stones but came out with a cancer diagnosis. And that is the best of...
According to the minister for Europe, Nick Thomas-Symonds, the UK must be “ruthlessly pragmatic” in its Brexit reset talks with the European Union....
When I joined the Metropolitan Police in the early 1990s, arresting shoplifters was my bread and butter. It was how I learned to do my job. In...
The reaction of the financial markets to the Trump tariffs provides further proof, were it needed, of the depressing effects of the new US...
The Conservative leader was safe, according to The Guardian 50 years ago this morning. Its headline read: “Buoyant Heath looks set for a clear...
An historic moment? Reform UK has, for the first time, topped an opinion poll – and beaten Labour in the process. Prompting some breathless (and...
Pubs are breathing a sigh of relief that Dry January has come to an end (“Expert warns of major mistake people make at end of Dry January”, Sunday...
Elephants are famous for protecting their young. They travel in herds, circling and shielding their loved ones, and will fight to the death to...
The tragic death by suicide of financier and diplomat Thomas Kingston last February may have gone largely unnoticed had it not been for the fact...
Benjamin Netanyahu may be preparing himself for the high honour of being the first head of government to meet with Donald Trump in the Oval Office,...
You know the old adage about it being better to stash your money under the bed than in the bank? We wouldn’t recommend stuffing your life savings...