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Beware the words ‘liberty’ and ‘liberation.’ There are no end of evils committed in their names. Wednesday, according to Donald Trump, will be...
Happy April Fools’ Day one and all. As it is now after 12, Mr S has been hopefully scouring the headlines for confirmation that the smorgasbord of...
How do you achieve anything in British politics? It’s simple: turn your cause into a TV drama. First, it was ITV’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office....
Once at my old local paper, the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, a trainee made the mistake of sniggering when asked to cover the allotments...
In bleak times, Brits could rely on light entertainment to get them through. George Formby and Vera Lynn made the Blitz bearable. Slade and T Rex...
Britain’s real economic pain starts today. Overnight, the cost of living has jumped once again: energy, water, broadband, public transport, TV...
‘Every single political group, every single national delegation, has violated the same rule that Ms. Le Pen did – the employment of staff to work...
The UK should have been doing everything possible to secure an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We could have scrapped the digital services tax that...
Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want...
The French claim authorship of April Fool’s Day, dating it to the late Middle Ages. Back then, those who celebrated the year’s beginning on 1...
In an Appalachian high school, the kids were set the task of writing about Europeans as part of their history curriculum. When the day came to hand...
Council tax is going up. Train fares are rising. Broadband will cost more, and so will electricity and water. April opens with a blizzard of price...
On April Fool’s Day, it is all too appropriate that the latest announcement from the Duchess of Sussex has the grim air of a not particularly funny...
The US government’s threat to scupper any trade deal with the UK unless we commit to widening free speech not only looks like a naked attempt to...
The members of the Sentencing Council have been pushed into a humiliating climbdown – but it may well be too late to save them. The pressure rose...
Keir Starmer has welcomed Netflix’s decision to make Adolescence available to screen for free in secondary schools. The Prime Minister, who watched...
Mark Mason has narrated this article for you to listen to. Lewis Carroll used to travel with purses divided into separate compartments, each...
The US-led coalition to help Ukraine was always more than just a production line of arms deliveries to the Kyiv government. Much of what has been...
The earthquake that struck Burma and its neighbouring countries on Friday has caused an immense human tragedy. Centring on Mandalay, destruction...
My story begins with a very small puddle on the kitchen floor. As it was nowhere near the sink, I blamed Biggles, the border terrier, but ‘you know...
The Liberal Democrats launched their local election campaign yesterday in what has become their fashion: not with a serious speech delivering a...
Labour MPs are still reeling from last week’s Spring Statement in which the Chancellor slashed welfare spending and made further cuts in a bid to...
Zut alors. The trial of the decade is concluding in France today, with major ramifications for the next presidential election in 2027. This morning...
Sooner or later, it is going to dawn on the owners of electric cars that they have been enjoying one of the longest introductory free offers in...
A series of striking videos have emerged from the Gaza Strip over the last week. Crowds of Palestinians, chanting slogans against Hamas, have taken...
The BBC children’s television programme Blue Peter will no longer be broadcast live. Why did it go by that name? – Blue Peter is the nickname of...
Has a generation ever been so minutely poured over as today’s young people? From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, his bestselling social...
Harold Wilson once declared that the Labour party ‘is a moral crusade or it is nothing’, a proposition whose logical consequence is troubling....
Let’s say you’re a young woman working in London, and you own a one-bedroom flat in Islington. You fall in love with a chap who has a nice house in...
How do you walk away from greatness? How do you vacate the position of being literally the best person in the world at something? Most of us never...
Is there anyone in the Met Police, I wonder, low-minded enough to think of things in PR terms? “I’ve got a good wheeze, guv,” I imagine some...
Marine Le Pen has been knocked out of the presidential race and disqualified from standing for public office after she was convicted of...
Perhaps Donald Trump is not quite the chump the Kremlin has taken him for. Trump is ‘pissed off’ with Russia over its foot-dragging over a...
Marine Le Pen has been declared ineligible to run for president of France. She has been given a suspended prison sentence, she will be barred from...
Could Idris Elba, the film star and anti-knife crime campaigner, be in the running to be Labour candidate for London mayor? He is rumoured to be...
James Heale has narrated this article for you to listen to. The English social season has begun, kicking off with Gold Cup day. But this year,...
Justin Welby has form when it comes to defending disgraced public figures. In 2022, he had a crack at supporting Prince Andrew, arguing that he was...
When it comes to defence procurement, there are no minor decisions. Complex technology, long time frames and staggering sums of money mean that any...