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Are Western companies heading back to Russia?

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Mark Galeotti

Trump’s tariff plan has been tried before. It failed

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Will Prescott

Trump’s tariffs could damage the dollar

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Peter Leahy

Theatre / I wish someone would kill or eat useless Totoro

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Lloyd Evans

Page rage / The problem with Oxfam Books

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Alexander Larman

Trump is starting to face tariff blowback

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Jacob Heilbrunn

Green shoots / Have we finally developed tastebuds?

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Druin Burch

Marine Le Pen is in a race against the clock

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James Tidmarsh

Profound shift / We’re still suffering from social long Covid

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Luke Tryl

Books / The story of Noah’s flood will never go out of fashion

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Nick Spencer

Textual healing / My solution to ghosting

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Jonny Ford

Books / Across the universe – John and Paul are in each other’s songs forever

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Andy Miller

There’ll be no liberty on Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’

There’ll be no liberty on Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’

Beware the words ‘liberty’ and ‘liberation.’ There are no end of evils committed in their names. Wednesday, according to Donald Trump, will be...

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Ross Clark

SW1 / Streeting and Farage face off on Fools’ Day

SW1 / Streeting and Farage face off on Fools’ Day

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...

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Steerpike

What should Netflix do its next drama on?

What should Netflix do its next drama on?

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....

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Steerpike

Print and be damned / The sad decline of the local paper

Print and be damned / The sad decline of the local paper

Once at my old local paper, the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, a trainee made the mistake of sniggering when asked to cover the allotments...

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Colin Freeman

What happened to trash TV escapism?

What happened to trash TV escapism?

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...

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Gareth Roberts

Welcome to Terrible Tuesday

Welcome to Terrible Tuesday

Britain’s real economic pain starts today. Overnight, the cost of living has jumped once again: energy, water, broadband, public transport, TV...

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Michael Simmons

The hypocrisy behind Le Pen’s disqualification

The hypocrisy behind Le Pen’s disqualification

‘Every single political group, every single national delegation, has violated the same rule that Ms. Le Pen did – the employment of staff to work...

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James Tidmarsh

Starmer’s costly failure to get a Trump tariff carve-out

Starmer’s costly failure to get a Trump tariff carve-out

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...

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Matthew Lynn

Miss match / We need to talk about femcels

Miss match / We need to talk about femcels

Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want...

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Ella Dorn

Jest in time / The art of April Fool’s Day

Jest in time / The art of April Fool’s Day

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...

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Calla Jones Corner

Europe last / Americans are right to hate us

Europe last / Americans are right to hate us

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...

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Rod Liddle

The minimum wage is too high

The minimum wage is too high

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...

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Matthew Lynn

If only Meghan Markle’s ‘As Ever’ launch was an April Fool

If only Meghan Markle’s ‘As Ever’ launch was an April Fool

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...

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Alexander Larman

Trade deal / The US is right about free speech in Britain

Trade deal / The US is right about free speech in Britain

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...

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Andrew Tettenborn

The Sentencing Council has been humiliated

The Sentencing Council has been humiliated

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...

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David Shipley

TV / Screening Netflix’s Adolescence in schools is a mistake

Keir Starmer has welcomed Netflix’s decision to make Adolescence available to screen for free in secondary schools. The Prime Minister, who watched...

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Chas Newkey-Burden

Notes on... / The curious language of coins

Mark Mason has narrated this article for you to listen to. Lewis Carroll used to travel with purses divided into separate compartments, each...

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Mark Mason

America’s involvement in Ukraine is finally being revealed

America’s involvement in Ukraine is finally being revealed

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...

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Michael Evans

Earthquake / Why the West doesn’t understand Burma

Earthquake / Why the West doesn’t understand Burma

The earthquake that struck Burma and its neighbouring countries on Friday has caused an immense human tragedy. Centring on Mandalay, destruction...

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James Snell

Long life / Can I survive six months without my books?

Long life / Can I survive six months without my books?

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...

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Susan Hill

Ed Davey’s Lib Dems need to grow up

Ed Davey’s Lib Dems need to grow up

The Liberal Democrats launched their local election campaign yesterday in what has become their fashion: not with a serious speech delivering a...

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Nick Tyrone

Can Britain escape Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’?

Can Britain escape Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’?

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...

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Katy Balls

Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds

Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling EU funds

Zut alors. The trial of the decade is concluding in France today, with major ramifications for the next presidential election in 2027. This morning...

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Steerpike

The electric car honeymoon is over

The electric car honeymoon is over

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...

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Ross Clark

The truth about the Gaza protests

The truth about the Gaza protests

A series of striking videos have emerged from the Gaza Strip over the last week. Crowds of Palestinians, chanting slogans against Hamas, have taken...

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Jonathan Sacerdoti

Barometer / How many teenagers kill?

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...

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The good news about Generation Z

The good news about Generation Z

Has a generation ever been so minutely poured over as today’s young people? From Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation, his bestselling social...

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James Kanagasooriam And Eddie Barnes

My odyssey / America is a moral idea or it is nothing

My odyssey / America is a moral idea or it is nothing

Harold Wilson once declared that the Labour party ‘is a moral crusade or it is nothing’, a proposition whose logical consequence is troubling....

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Matthew Parris

Driven out / The war on the London pied-à-terre

Driven out / The war on the London pied-à-terre

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...

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Be more Steve / How to walk away from greatness

Be more Steve / How to walk away from greatness

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...

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Mark Mason

The police raid on a Quaker meeting house is unforgivable

The police raid on a Quaker meeting house is unforgivable

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...

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Sam Leith

This ruling against Marine Le Pen is grotesque

This ruling against Marine Le Pen is grotesque

Marine Le Pen has been knocked out of the presidential race and disqualified from standing for public office after she was convicted of...

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James Tidmarsh

Putin has pushed Trump too far

Putin has pushed Trump too far

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...

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Owen Matthews

Is France still a democracy?

Is France still a democracy?

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...

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Jonathan Miller

The cynicism of picking Idris Elba for London mayor

The cynicism of picking Idris Elba for London mayor

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...

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Jawad Iqbal

The Boden Belt / The Lib Dems are the new party of the posh

The Boden Belt / The Lib Dems are the new party of the posh

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,...

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James Heale

What was the point of Justin Welby’s reconciliation interview?

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...

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Rebecca Chapman

Is the RAF right to buy US fighter jets?

Is the RAF right to buy US fighter jets?

When it comes to defence procurement, there are no minor decisions. Complex technology, long time frames and staggering sums of money mean that any...

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Eliot Wilson