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Andrea Rizzi, a journalist with Spain’s El Pais newspaper, put it best. The global right wing, he wrote as footage of thousands of migrants arriving...
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...
Of all the characteristics that defined Rod Liddle, none was as befitting as his devoted support of Millwall FC, whose anthem, sung loudly and...
The welfare bill is big and getting bigger. We now spend over £330bn a year on all forms of welfare combined. For the last 13 years, welfare spending...
Like an extended voice note from a friend you fell out with but can’t remember why, Rupert Lowe posted a 12-minute-long video on X asking Nigel...
Without Nigel Farage, Reform UK wouldn’t have won a single seat in the 2024 election. His return as leader – the most dramatic moment in the...
Ten years ago, Belarus launched its one and only communications satellite. It was made by China, sent into the skies from a spaceport in Sichuan...
Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....
Gianni Infantino has an extraordinary gift. Whenever it feels like football is in danger of becoming just another business, Fifa’s president manages...
Vice President JD Vance and Israeli Pime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a meeting in Washington designed to clear the air between them this week....
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Given she has been the most consistent figure in British politics in the past 20 years, Louise Casey is worth listening to far more than any of the...
Donald Trump’s strategic failure in Iran could – accidentally – become his greatest diplomatic success. His attack on Iran revealed the limits...
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Here they go again. Last month, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton notified a House of Lords Committee that our armed forces would be depleted and...
Booking my first-ever appointment for under-eye filler felt as casual as booking my next haircut. It would only take a matter of minutes, there would...
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...
Leasing Linda, the robot carer in Diane Morgan’s terrific new BBC comedy Ann Droid, allows owner Sue to stay at home after she breaks her wrist....
Michael Frayn wrote it, John Cleese delivered it and I currently find myself thinking of it every time Andy Burnham opens his mouth. “It’s not the...
Though we are suffering from the worst of the heat this summer, perhaps we need to be looking more urgently at the implications of the demographic...
Girlguiding has launched a new uniform for all its members with a focus on “self-expression, belonging and confidence”. The new clothes, in bright...
Okay, I’ve waited long enough. This is getting beyond a joke. Where is it? I have just turned 52. Where, oh where, is the no-f*cks-to-give era that...
When Andy Burnham stood outside Downing Street last week, having achieved his long-held ambition to lead this country, he told us that he was “a...
Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....
When it comes to the new Prime Minister’s dealing with his American counterpart Carly Simon’s “Coming Around Again” is the soundtrack, even if...
Here we go again: eight water companies have now introduced a hosepipe ban. Somehow, this rain-lashed island has once again contrived to run out of...
I was in my hotel room getting ready to go downstairs and join a dear friend’s 40th birthday party when it started. My hair was falling out and...
President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt had a one-word answer about whether the White House would intervene in the UK extradition...
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Like so many of life’s disasters, it happened slowly, then all at once. We lost our business during Covid. It was the business I had left my...
As a Dundee United and Scotland football supporter I am well used to seeing my hopes raised and continuously dashed. Despite myself, however, there...
It was a cold Sunday in November when I went to my first sex party. It had been on my bucket list ever since I became single and decided I was going...
Does Andy Burnham’s claim this week that his government is a “second chance at a first impression” make any sense? What the new Prime Minister...
When did everything become “amazing”? I was told by a sales assistant the other day that putting in my PIN number was “amazing”. A flight...
Last month, Andy Burnham promised us a government where “all parts of the party and the country – can see themselves reflected and represented in...
There’s something disarming about the emotional tenor of this Government. In the background, it is composed of pain, asphyxiation and horror. But in...
It’s still a thing. Becoming a teenager. And today Prince George is 13. But he’s launching into this new chapter from a far more secure base than...
There may not be anywhere in the world that the well-travelled Brit feels more like an innocent abroad than in a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard in...
Christopher Nolan, the British-American director, has perfect Aryan features – Nordic, blue eyes, blonde hair, a symmetrical face. And is, at...
In the middle of January, anti-ICE protesters disrupted Sunday worship at Cities Church in St Paul, Minnesota. The video went viral within hours, and...
Andy Burnham’s brutal reshuffle achieved what Sir Keir Starmer never could: creating a faction of Starmerites. And they’re already showing their...
My A-Level politics teacher told a story about Harold Wilson that I so wanted to be accurate, I haven’t dared check its provenance until just now....
Andy Burnham surprised the pundits of Westminster by shrewdly appointing John Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. At 66, Healey is the...
Napoleon famously said: “I would rather have a lucky general than a good general.” He would probably have approved of Andy Burnham as a lucky...
Burnham vs Farage is set to be the great personal battle of the next three years of British politics. Both are formidable charismatic communicators,...
Authenticity is rare in politics. Andy Burnham, soon to be the UK’s new prime minister, who reminds us frequently he is dead northern, would like us...
Andy Burnham’s career so far has been built around public services, devolution, and the relationship between government and its citizens. At first...
I’m writing from Sardinia, where the temperature is again almost 40°C. By lunchtime, the streets are empty. Even on local beaches, parents shepherd...
Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....
What bliss it is for Labour to have a “hopey-changey” new start. That accusation of vibes-based politics was first hurled at former US president...