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Even the BBC’s hit series The Celebrity Traitors is not immune from the mental health contagion engulfing these shores. On Thursday night, James...
I’ve been writing about politics for 25 years and, putting aside the two years (2007-09) I was based in Washington, John Healey’s first Budget on...
To promote his new book, Alastair Campbell appeared this week on Question Time alongside Zia Yusuf. Campbell went on the attack, accusing Yusuf of...
Andreas Malm, a Swedish author and academic, claims he has been barred from the UK because he was due to speak on a panel with a co-founder of...
When the world’s largest cryptocurrency heist takes place, it doesn’t take long for the finger to be pointed at one particular country. North...
‘Hello Kitty must not dance with the far-right’ declared the Chinese newspaper Global Times in a recent editorial. This bizarre, though evocative,...
It is now clear that the focus of this government is on managing national decline, not reversing it. The Budget’s big headline – if it can be...
Who would have thought it? Two years and a bit after junior, sorry, resident, doctors staged strikes in successful pursuit of a mammoth pay rise, NHS...
Nothing really grabs me betting-wise at Ascot or elsewhere tomorrow but the entries are out for the big races at Cheltenham’s November...
Alastair Campbell is on a book tour promoting his new work Persevilience, which Mr S has not read but hears is, erm, not exactly the best book to ever...
Fifteen years ago, if you were eating at 239 Brompton Road in Kensington, just over from the Oratory, you may have been enjoying steak tartare, or...
Labour may have removed hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but the party has its own dynasties. This government has a Kinnock, a Falconer, a...
Imagine that a good friend of yours has fallen for a psychopath, a man or woman who seems superficially charming but you know to be controlling and...
What is the purpose of a Budget? To stabilise the national finances? To kickstart economic growth? If you’re John Healey, it may be to show the...
It says a lot for the late, great Sir Patrick Stewart, who has died aged 86, that two wholly disparate contingents of his fanbase are mourning his...
The USSR is striking back. Nearly forty years after its collapse, there are a growing number of young people in the West who are now avid enthusiasts...
‘Russian troop movements near Ukraine border prompt concern in US, Europe’ ran the headline in the Washington Times on 30 October 2021, exactly...
This October marks three hundred years since Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels first exploded onto the world, in all its scabrous, coarse...
She wants to speak freely about the upcoming presidential election in France. Or she may have a tempting offer from the World Economic Forum or some...
Politics can be a rollercoaster. When Andy Burnham chose John Healey as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer in July, there were pricklings of hope...
How Chancellors love jacking up the minimum wage, as John Healey has just done in his Budget, by 3.9 per cent. Look, here’s a pay rise on me, he is...
A Labour chancellor called Healey grappling with the public finances amid fears of an economic collapse. Pressure from the right to slash spending,...
How cheering to realise that, as winter decides to make itself properly felt, the world of cricket has given us a series of half-volleys outside the...
There has never been a good screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. There have been plenty of films with plots and characters vaguely based on her...
The unequivocally titled Adultery began with a somewhat portentous voiceover. ‘There is a psychological equation,’ it intoned. ‘Attraction plus...
Imagine that a good friend of yours has fallen for a psychopath, a man or woman who seems superficially charming but you know to be controlling and...
The Piano Teacher of Montparnasse is from Heather Morris, whose 2012 novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz began the vogue for the trivial and insidious...
Helen Edmundson has given her new play an ingenious title, Some Woman. The phrase may be admiring, ‘that is some woman’, or dismissive, ‘she’s...
‘One for the heads’ is the phrase that traditionally covers the more outré elements of a band’s career: the outtakes, the triple live album or...
Authors hate it when reviewers refer to their book as a ‘weighty tome’ as it implies that the contents are going to be about as much fun as...
What does ‘victory’ in Ukraine mean – or ‘defeat’? Can there be lasting peace without justice? Direct talks between Russia, the US and...
With Carlsberg closing down its British cask ale breweries and the sturdy, smelly black labrador yielding to the effete and fragrant cockapoo, there...
Labour may have removed hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but the party has its own dynasties. This government has a Kinnock, a Falconer, a...
Nick Love makes irresponsible films – that’s what people say. When he did The Football Factory in 2004, the BBC said that Love had...
What does ‘victory’ in Ukraine mean – or ‘defeat’? Can there be lasting peace without justice? Direct talks between Russia, the US and...
Two worlds met in Paris last week. Thanks to the presence of Art Basel, some of the world’s most valuable art that wasn’t already in the city was...
What is the purpose of a Budget? To stabilise the national finances? To kickstart economic growth? If you’re John Healey, it may be to show the...
Labour may have removed hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but the party has its own dynasties. This government has a Kinnock, a Falconer, a...
The Tel Aviv neighbourhood of Hatikva is everything Israel’s critics across Europe fail to understand. This run-down suburb is home to many...
Of all the rotten clichés in American political discourse, ‘lame duck presidency’ is arguably the worst. It ought to be dragged out back –...
Postwar Britain can be defined by a bargain made with its middle class: pay for public services but benefit from them too. Private education has...
Beignets are one of those unusual foodstuffs that are on the one hand wildly popular in their birthplace, even going so far as being part of its sense...
By the age of 13, Alex Wood was a virtuoso violinist, though he was later sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud. He is now a renowned expert on...
The Budget is without doubt one of the most overrated days in British politics. Now that we are entirely at the mercy of foreign lenders, Saudi and...
The name of the government’s highly-controversial ‘special representative’ to oversee its equally controversial definition of ‘anti-Muslim...
John Healey has just delivered the biggest Budget in recent history. The 98 policy measures on the government’s scorecard are more than any recent...
John Healey and the Emperor Nero do not have much in common. Yet the Roman emperor has given the Chancellor the perfect epitaph for his first Budget....
In Israeli politics, there is but one rule: never bet against Bibi. Yesterday’s Knesset elections were finally going to topple Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Kemi Badenoch had an annoyingly good Prime Minister’s Questions today: annoying for her, because no one will remember it. The scrap between the...
Economics editor Michael Simmons will be joined by deputy political editor James Heale and pollster Scarlett Maguire to discuss Andy Burnham and John...
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