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France kick off their World Cup campaign today against Senegal – and it seems almost inevitable that, win or lose, there will be ugly scenes on the...
The BBC has binned its planned Doctor Who Christmas special and put the show ‘out to tender’. This is a face-saving TV industry term for saying...
Luke Pollard tells MPs he is only still in the job because John Healey asked him to stay.In a strong hint he agrees with Healey, he praises his former...
Initially, AI’s critics insisted that artificial intelligence was just another software product. AI was presented as a huge commercial opportunity,...
Today, with much fanfare, HM Government is rolling out its new policy to protect young people from online harms. Here is a political/legal move for...
Australians are known for world-class performances in many fields. Mostly, our achievements are a source of national pride, but one field of...
For months, South African social media has been awash with videos of men marching through the country’s streets carrying sticks, clubs and whips....
Volodymyr Zelensky stood proudly on the steps of 10 Downing Street this week, flanked by Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany, ready...
A new study has found that smartphones are a likely cause of falling American birth rates. Economists Caitlin K. Myers and Ezekiel Hooper tracked the...
If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...
“You are going to die before me and leave me to deal with this, and I will curse your soul for all eternity,” I once said half-jokingly to my...
I’m just going to say it. Not all immigrants are the same. I know that reading that might make you feel uncomfortable, particularly if you’re...
Show me the money. Show it to me in the dedicated pages of national newspapers, in documentaries and TV series and on social media, where influencers...
The US government has finally intervened in the AI regulation question, albeit in the kind of haphazard, incoherent, and possibly corrupt manner in...
President Trump is giving peace a chance in the Persian Gulf, and for Iran’s leadership this is literally a matter of life or death. If Iran had...
I see Jerry Seinfeld has got the pompous left sobbing into their keffiyehs. His sin? He refused to buckle to their neo-religious mantra ‘Free...
Harold Shipman wasn’t as keen on bumping off vulnerable people as the average member of Britain’s euthanasia lobby. Not that I’m comparing...
In a sensible but hard-hitting judgment this morning, the Court of Appeal upheld the ban on Palestine Action, overturning the decision of the High...
President Trump is giving peace a chance in the Persian Gulf, and for Iran’s leadership this is literally a matter of life or death. If Iran had...
We live in a time of ifs and wills. If Reform and Restore split the right-wing vote in Makerfield, will Andy Burnham win this Thursday’s...
It was all smiles for the press when Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi visited Keir Starmer at No. 10 on Sunday for trade and security talks. But...
British workers will come first every time under a Reform UK government. ✅ pic.twitter.com/ko8cEAPdW6— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) June 15, 2026...
The government’s announcement today of a ban on social media for under-16s doesn’t show it in a good light. The three-month consultation that...
The US government has finally intervened in the AI regulation question, albeit in the kind of haphazard, incoherent, and possibly corrupt manner in...
Yesterday, the think tank the IPPR released YouGov polling showing that a majority of Britons, 83 per cent, believe there should be some form of...
One uncomfortable consequence of political longevity is seeing the facts prove some of one’s most confident forecasts wrong. As the trade secretary...
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s.Live updates: https://t.co/Jxi67uC5Qk...
It would have been my mother’s 84th birthday on 29 May. I thought about her as I clattered down the corkscrew stairs at Holland Park Underground...
The World Cup has never been just a football tournament. Even if we don’t realise it at the time, it tends to reveal something about us. In Germany...
There appears to be a missing chapter in the story of Andy Burnham. Depending on the whims of voters in Makerfield, Britain could soon have its first...
It would have been my mother’s 84th birthday on 29 May. I thought about her as I clattered down the corkscrew stairs at Holland Park Underground...
Today, with much fanfare, HM Government is rolling out its new policy to protect young people from online harms. Here is a political/legal move for...
‘We failed,’ wrote Stefan Zweig in The World of Yesterday, ‘to see the writing on the wall in letters of fire.’ Looking back on the...
It was once the norm that a good greeting was typically accompanied by a gregarious physical act, such as doffing your hat or kissing the back of a...
Some time ago, I had a furious conversation with a tech bro, which played out something along these lines: ‘How cool would it be’, said the tech...
The last Prime Minister to resign over national security was Neville Chamberlain in 1940. Eighty six years later, Sir Keir Starmer’s defence...
TThe junior doctors were due to strike again, and everyone was sick of the whole business. At the last minute, after a new government offer, the...
Nigel Farage has always prided himself on being able to see off any threat from his right flank. But now a new force has emerged in the form of his...
It turns out that the writer Sathnam Sanghera, ‘The Boy with the Topknot’, has been a besotted George Michael fan since the age of eight, when he...
Volodymyr Zelensky stood proudly on the steps of 10 Downing Street this week, flanked by Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany, ready...
You know you’re getting old when you see Geena Davis from Thelma & Louise cast as a granny sex symbol and Alfred Molina as a character so...
If you’ve ever lived in Marseille – where the habit of exaggeration is imbibed with mothers’ milk – you’ve heard about the sardine that...
In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that he was an incipient dictator....
The UFC event today at the White House has been widely dismissed as an absurdity. Inevitably, the administration’s critics have portrayed the event...
Initially, AI’s critics insisted that artificial intelligence was just another software product. AI was presented as a huge commercial opportunity,...
In January 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt held a toga-themed birthday party at the White House to mock the accusation that he was an incipient dictator....
As is so often the case following riots, attention on symptoms drowns out discussion about the cause. This pattern has been evident this week, as...
All my life I have been obsessed by black and white birds. Magpies are my tormentors, my morning omens of whether my day will be worthwhile or...
This morning, in a blaze of publicity, Royal Navy commandos boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the English channel in a move that No. 10 heralded as a...
Lisa Nandy insists government will ‘meet that moment’ with defence budget Keir Starmer’s premiership is now under enormous strain, after John...