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For one contemporary, it is the hectoring tone of today that evokes what it was like to be at school with Nigel Farage. “He would sidle up to me...





If ever a British institution needed assistance in dying, it is the House of Lords. Its handling of the assisted dying bill on Friday of last week,...


My brother is asleep on the couch at his in-laws’ summer house in Norway. The room is full of the light of the afternoon sun. From the TV, there is...


One of the last remaining fun things about the internet is getting to pass judgment on the goings-on in households that you would never hear about...


In the early part of this year, as the US vice-president, JD Vance, berated European leaders in Munich, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy was subjected to a...


By instinct and conviction, Rachel Reeves is a traditionally social democratic, centre-left Labour chancellor. When she delivers her budget next...


This time last year, I was on a TV programme with three singers. There was a rapper of Ghanaian heritage, a big pop star, and a famous...


British political debate has long been dominated by public anxiety about rising levels of immigration. How might that change if the population tide...



Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, visited the US this week for the first time in seven years – and Donald Trump rolled out the red...


When something becomes old and then new again during my lifetime, I might be forgiven for feeling at once quite aged and a little sentimental. But...


By this time next week you will be digesting the budget, you lucky thing. Yet even before Rachel Reeves has commended a single damn thing to the...


‘Not one vote for the left!” That call from Bruno Retailleau, chair of the mainstream conservative party Les Républicains (LR), helped a candidate...


When running for president last year, Donald Trump wooed and wowed voters by vowing to reduce prices “starting on day one”. But once he was...


I spend a lot of time worrying about stuff, as in physical, you know, stuff. Things I use, things I no longer use, things I’ve never used and never...


Catherine Lucey, who covers the White House for Bloomberg News, was doing what reporters are supposed to do: asking germane questions. Her query to...


‘Aiyah, why don’t you bake?” my Aunt Julie scolded, her voice shrill with disbelief. “You should learn how to bake for the sake of your child! Your...


“Things happen.” Just two words. That’s all it took for Donald Trump to effectively dismiss what is probably the most infamous journalist...


The latest wage figures show no sign of wages growth powering inflation, as the real value of private-sector wages fell in the September quarter....


Three months before Kardell Lomas and her unborn baby were killed in a horrific act of feminicide in Ipswich, she stood in the office of a support...


Sit down and pay attention, because this column might change your life. I bring you tidings from the Nazi-filled wilderness that is now X, where...


The crypto crash has come again. And it is as brutal as ever. In barely six weeks, more than $1.2tn has evaporated from cryptocurrencies’ market...


Tenants need rights. Apart from food and water, shelter is the most basic human need and relevant to almost everyone all the time – unlike, say,...


The first time I ever used the words “alhumdulilah”, which translates to praise be to God in Arabic, was the night of 16 November 2018. A Friday...


Recently, a friend sent me a video of a man dressed as a pickle. Following a high-octane car chase, the pickle flung himself out of the car and...



The mood among Labour MPs these days follows Edgar’s law. This states that the scale of any misfortune can only be measured against unknown future...


Like most Spaniards alive today, I was born after the death of Franco 50 years ago. Even for my parents’ generation, the dictatorship that lasted...


Last month, as the Nobel peace prize eluded Donald Trump’s covetous grasp, the Harvard professor Michael Sandel received an accolade sometimes...


I’ve got a genius business idea for people with few discernible skills. First you establish a “health insurance” company and get people to pay you...


Nineteen forty-five was a pivotal moment in international law, marking the founding of the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal...


One of my children is irate at my deletion of an important school email. I claim that so many useless emails rain into my inbox that some useful...


If we needed any more evidence that the Coalition’s political stocks were tanking, the prospect of three leadership changes in two weeks might be...


“It’s very clear,” claimed haunted Fifa cue-ball Gianni Infantino not so long ago, “that politics should stay out of football and football...


There are 535 members of Congress; only a dozen or so are household names. If you want to achieve that sort of brand name recognition, there are a...


You can learn a great deal about a government by who it chooses to fight. In the 16 months since this shambolic, soulless rabble were handed power...


Last March, following angst-ridden months as Europe came to terms with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, financial markets in Paris, Milan...
