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When president Barack Obama signed a deal with Iran in 2015 to limit its nuclear enrichment programme for a decade, the US agreed to release $1.7bn in...
Have you watched The Assembly? It is a fabulous chat show on ITV that is funny, insightful and uplifting instead of the format’s usual inanities and...
After his divorce from Sarah Ferguson in 1996, the then Prince Andrew was at a loose end. A mutual friend told me that he had also realised that...
There is an uncomfortable truth about the modern 11-plus that middle-class Britain rarely acknowledges: it is less simply an exam, more an industry....
It is a natural maternal instinct to want to protect your children at all times. My boys are 22 and 19 – they don’t need that much protecting,...
In the Caribbean, the US is threatening to force regime change in Cuba, something it dared not do for nearly three quarters of a century because the...
Has Donald Trump entered the bunker phase of his presidency? He didn’t seem keen to leave the White House when asked a perfectly natural question...
The West still talks about Ukraine as though it were a charity case. Increasingly, it looks more like Europe’s future military power. You might...
In December of this year, so we were told, the first phase of an ambitious and ground-breaking transport project, which will deliver untold benefits...
There is no greater area of failure in public perception than immigration. Not one. Look at the facts. The latest official data shows one of the...
What is Wes Streeting up to? For years – decades, in fact – the answer to that question was always, “He wants to be prime minister”. The...
What does the future hold for the York family? I wrote Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York. After I published it last year, dozens of...
I was 21 when I first met Maria, my cleaner and life organiser. I’d just moved to London and having had enough of cleaning rotas in previous...
This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox,...
In times to come, British politicians, historians and voters will try to figure out how, in the first quarter of the 21st century, Nigel Farage became...
I have been a sleepwalker for as long as I can remember. As a child, I would regularly wake up in different rooms to the one I went to sleep in. I’d...
Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American...
Three female participants from one of Channel 4’s most popular shows, Married at First Sight UK (MAFS), have alleged that they were raped or...
I used to work in the heart of Soho in central London. Occasionally, I’d walk to the office first thing in the morning and there would already be a...
Back in 2018, in the depths of the Theresa May premiership, and with Sir Keir Starmer’s campaign for a second EU referendum in its pomp, Vote Leave...
What does Putin do next? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take a deeper look at the future for the Russian...
Bruised, battered, but still in post. There is a world – unthinkable at some points last week – where Sir Keir Starmer could still be in No 10...
Scattered early battles are breaking out in the Labour leadership war. Over the weekend, Wes Streeting gave a speech in which he branded Brexit a...
I think I’m going to have to retire from the fray. And by fray, I mean world. I just don’t fit in any more. This is not something I believe...
Kenneth Baker’s response to the local election results in 1990 was a masterclass in political spin. The Conservatives were routed across the...
You are a hopeful for the Labour top job, seeking to replace the Prime Minister’s beta performance, but getting a mixed reception from a shaken...
There is a moment during every exam season when some parents lose perspective. Usually, that’s around the third reminder to “do a bit more...
China’s president Xi Jinping appears to have been studying King Charles’s royal playbook when dealing with Donald Trump. Step one: bedazzle the US...
This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...
Those colleagues at Westminster who remember Andy Burnham as an MP and minister have a less ecstatic view of his powers than the citizens of Greater...
I took a trip down memory lane this week when I read the latest homeowner stats out of the US… bear with me, I promise it’s juicy. Nearly 50 years...
Wes Streeting’s resignation letter to Keir Starmer is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. It is a classic of its type: a statement written almost...
Like in a game of tennis, Wes Streeting just very firmly lobbed the ball into Angela Rayner’s court. Rayner had dropped a breakfast time 130mph...
Almost every pair of eyes in Westminster this week is focused on the cascading chain reaction of events that seems sure to end Keir Starmer’s...
There are many uncertainties but Wes Streeting’s resignation spells the end of Keir Starmer’s premiership – although Starmer, the master of...
One of my guilty pleasures is a Facebook community group. I love them so much – and derive so much pleasure at the sheer insanity contained within...
This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox,...
Are we ready for war? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers tackle a question that, until recently, few had thought to...
Say one thing for Wes Streeting, the man has more front than Brighton. He sat in the House of Commons chamber, only slightly self-conscious, chuckling...
Great moments of political change often dissolve into a circus and that’s what’s going on now. Wes Streeting did the mad British politics walk...
I always thought I would lose my best girlfriends to motherhood. To mum WhatsApp groups and playdates – and not being able to get a drink after 7pm...
As Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership appears to enter its final days, some Labour MPs are quietly beginning to look beyond the Prime Minister’s now...
In 1972, I was a post-grad student at Oxford when Idi Amin expelled all Asians from Uganda. Everything fell apart. I thought I’d have to quit...
When I was in the rehabilitation hospital in the winter of 2025, one of my favourite nurses said, as she removed my night-bag one frosty morning,...
Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American...
In 2024 the Democrats in the US delayed too long replacing an incapable and unpopular president Joe Biden as their presidential candidate, until the...
“Oi, Wes Streeting. Come and ‘ave a go if you think you’re ‘ard enough,” knight of the realm Sir Keir Starmer definitely did not say at the...
“Bunker mentality” is a cliché, but no other phrase quite captures the paranoia, suspicion and fear which clings around a prime minister who is...
The aftershocks of last week’s elections continue to rumble. The Prime Minister is fighting for his political life, while the United Kingdom now has...
As Reform UK revels in its success in last week’s local elections – winning 1,450 council seats – the idea of prime minister Nigel Farage no...
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