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The slow political death of Sir Keir Starmer continued again today. Westminster must increasingly resemble a torture chamber for the Prime Minister....
Oh dear. Just when you thought a British ambassador to the US couldn’t possibly cause any more grief for Sir Keir Starmer, enter Christian Turner....
I think the best and most succinct description of the Green party was Tim Stanley’s ‘Stalin with a nose ring’. It gives a nod to the witless...
It’s a blockbuster day in parliament today. To kick things off, we had Philip Barton up pleading ignorance; to close the proceedings tonight we have...
Yesterday, Zack Polanski told Sky News that ‘the war on drugs has clearly failed over and over again. In fact we have the highest drug deaths in...
If the energy giant BP’s change of direction over the last year could be summed up in a single phrase, it would be ‘Back to Petroleum’. It has...
Whooooo remembers Sir Philip Barton? The lifelong diplomat spent an inglorious four and a half years in charge of the Foreign Office, most memorably...
The ‘tide may be turning’ on shoplifting according to our ever-hopeful Prime Minister – despite the fact shoplifting offences have soared by 133...
So. Farewell then to the last hereditary peers. Today marks the last day in parliament for most of the small rump who avoided Tony Blair’s purge in...
It is a part of the human lot that we lug about feelings of doubt, regret and guilt. We carry our sins about like suitcases. Well, okay, maybe not...
If I walked over Westminster Bridge in my birthday suit, I would almost certainly be arrested. And yet, for some inexplicable reason, thousands of...
There’s a Tube strike in the old-fashioned style as I write – and you’ll understand the irritation, mine and that of restaurateurs across...
‘I’ll swap you two of my rolls for three of your spogs.’ That was the sort of thing you’d hear round the tuckshop in morning break when we...
In the aftermath of Peter Magyar’s victory in Hungary, while I watch people dancing in the streets as they celebrate Viktor Orban’s dramatic...
There’s a Tube strike in the old-fashioned style as I write – and you’ll understand the irritation, mine and that of restaurateurs across...
Should you visit your local Waitrose store this week – and hope you don’t witness an altercation between a shoplifter and a member of staff about...
In recent years it’s become a hackneyed truism that Nordic nations have found the key to happiness. The Danes, who often take first place in global...
The Rolling Stones’ resilience is hard to get one’s head around. In a world of fleeting cultural phenomena, they just keep going… and going…...
The United Kingdom’s armed forces have long made an indispensable contribution to the defense of the free world. They are widely respected for their...
There are few things that look sadder than an abandoned football ground. I spent longer than I meant to sitting on a decaying bench looking out...
King Charles III’s state visit to Washington this week is the monarchy executing its core diplomatic function with precision and dignity. In Donald...
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” Donald Trump told reporters just hours after the shooting incident at...
Memorial Day is approaching, the traditional kickoff for the American barbecue season – or for grilling season, depending on where you are in the...
Start saying your goodbyes, America. Tartrazine-tinted pickles, oranges with a Citrus Red No. 2 spray tan and maraschino cherries glowing with...
Robert Hardman has narrated this article for you to listen to. Elizabeth II was never particularly enthusiastic about birthdays. They were a good...
About a decade ago, with my writing career going nowhere fast, I received some savvy advice from my then-literary agent. “Write about the royal...
Well, that was odd. Cockburn spent Saturday evening at the Substack party, hosted at the Renwick Gallery next door to the White House. Non-alcoholic...
These nights, sleep won’t take me. Thirty-one weeks pregnant, I’m too big to ever be comfortable. I toss; I turn; I move to the guest room in the...
Even when he’s not visiting the United States, King Charles III might occasionally daydream about what his reign would be like today if things had...
Rachel Reeves may have lost the plot. The Guardian reports that the Chancellor is considering a one-year rent freeze on private-sector flats and...
For something that’s apparently only a ‘desperate political stunt’, Keir Starmer is taking the looming vote on whether to refer him to the...
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Keir Starmer’s premiership, they have. Last week the Telegraph exposed Lord Hermer’s continued...
Even when he’s not visiting the United States, King Charles III might occasionally daydream about what his reign would be like today if things had...
It’s that time of year again. Spring is sprung and that means another bad set of local elections for an unpopular incumbent government. Cue much...
The news that Gordon Ramsay – that most self-publicising of restaurateurs – has increased service charges at his Lucky Cat restaurant in the City...
Wes Streeting has said women have been treated like ‘second-class citizens whose voices don’t matter’. ‘The blunt reality is the NHS is...
President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip to Islamabad by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner over the weekend. The move followed the...
For the six days in April, the Maestranza ring in Seville is the centre of the bullfighting world. During one of the traditional corrida, Spain’s...
This week parliament will attempt to conclude legislation allowing the government to ban young people from social media. It’s taken weeks of...
The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in Oxford is well and truly open; there was an Open Day this weekend. It’s the product of a big donation of...
AI writing is God-awful. It appears intelligent at first glance, empty at second. It possesses the insufferable buoyancy of a holiday rep. It offers...
A school in Greater Manchester has stripped 193 books from its library because they are ‘inappropriate’, liable to upset pupils and thus a...
As the first Americans of the season got out of their car I scrunched up my face and groaned. ‘They’re all like that, remember?’ said the...
As Tony Blair contested a third election in 2005, the Labour government’s popularity was in tatters. The divisions in the country were running deep,...
A school in Greater Manchester has stripped 193 books from its library because they are ‘inappropriate’, liable to upset pupils and thus a...
“I can’t imagine that there’s any profession that is more dangerous,” Donald Trump told reporters just hours after the shooting incident at...
I wrote not all that long ago about this disconcerting situation we’re in where the only news story the Prime Minister seems capable of generating...
Losing one energy source may be misfortune. Losing two is carelessness. And losing three is alarming if you’re the world’s third biggest...
The Eagle in Farringdon used to be next door to the old Guardian offices. I remember eating there back in the early 1990s, when it...
Before the cocoon I had never met a hotel I didn’t like. I thought all hotels were interesting. There was the hostel in the walls of old...
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