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“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime” is the can-do attitude attributed to Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria....
Donna Major was shot dead in 2017 by bank robber Brandon Council, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Joe Biden – “guided,” as he said...
The food and drink editor was taken with my idea for a piece on the challenges of outdoor dining in the big city, specifically Chicago, the big city...
A few years back, I lost a significant amount of weight. It came off entirely by accident following a major unforeseen life crisis that resulted in a...
There’s a question I’ve started being asked at work. Given I’m a psychiatrist, it isn’t one I’d ever expected to hear: ‘Do I have...
The pundits and political professionals of Washington, DC have never had a very good understanding of the Republican party. They hate its conservative...
It appears in politics, as in life, there’s no such thing as a free campervan. Today, Peter Murrell – the former chief executive of the Scottish...
As Andy Burnham, who is still mayor of Greater Manchester in his spare time, campaigns to win the Makerfield by-election in fewer than four weeks, he...
‘Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime’ is the can-do attitude attributed to Stalin’s chief of the secret police, Lavrentiy Beria....
In the weeks since I relocated from London to Melbourne, I suspect my reputation among those who know me underwent a quiet but decisive shift: from...
The conflict in Iran is having serious knock-on effects around the world, from cancelled flights as jet fuel supplies run short to fears about the...
Whilst Britain’s Labour government continues its war on the price mechanism, Communist China wrestles with the ill effects of an extreme capitalist...
Another weekend, another failed and frankly pathetic attempt to kill the President of the United States. On February 22, a Sunday, Secret Service shot...
Pensions are boring. I say this from a position of some knowledge. I spend quite a lot of my working life talking about pension policy. I find the...
The conflict in Iran is having serious knock-on effects around the world, from cancelled flights as jet fuel supplies run short to fears about the...
On one level it’s not exactly surprising. The idea that large parts of the civil service would treat a Farage government with horror and seek to...
Today is Celebration Day when we are asked to remember the people we’ve loved and lost. My first reaction to the idea, was a groan. Really? Who...
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna Daily life in Punta Marina, the next little town but one from me here on the Adriatic coast has gone globally viral after...
Washington’s war hawks are molting down over President Trump’s outreach to Iran. Senator Ted Cruz says that he is “concerned.” Senator Roger...
Back in April 1971, a large billboard appeared by a freeway near the Seattle-Tacoma airport. “Will The Last Person Leaving Seattle Turn Out The...
Another weekend, another failed and frankly pathetic attempt to kill the President of the United States. On February 22, a Sunday, Secret Service shot...
When it was first announced three years ago, the Enhanced Games was described by Aron d’Souza, its Australian founder, as a direct rival to the...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...
It was long a highlight of the football calendar when, every May, on the final day of the season, supporters would be allowed to swarm onto their...
On the fringes of his Unite the Kingdom rally last Saturday, Tommy Robinson was asked what he would change if he became prime minister tomorrow. “I...
A lazy framing of British party politics portrays Reform UK playing the equivalent role on the right of British politics that the Green Party does on...
Another weekend, another failed and frankly pathetic attempt to kill the President of the United States. On February 22, a Sunday, Secret Service shot...
Whilst Britain’s Labour government continues its war on the price mechanism, Communist China wrestles with the ill effects of an extreme capitalist...
As Mrs Thatcher stood to give her speech at the 1980 Conservative party conference at Brighton, she was under considerable pressure. The government...
We are meant to be living in the age of the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’. Professor Matt Goodwin and David Goodhart tell us that selection by...
It’s been another bizarre week in Westminster, with Sir Keir Starmer going about business as if everything is completely normal while a shadow...
If I were prime minister for a day (which is looking like an increasingly realistic prospect for all of us), one of my first acts would be to ban...
It is of course hacky and hysterical to suggest America is turning into a banana republic. How else, though, can a reasonable person interpret Donald...
On the fringes of his Unite the Kingdom rally last Saturday, Tommy Robinson was asked what he would change if he became prime minister tomorrow. “I...
Tilly’s children now refuse to tell her when another one bites the dust. Recently, they joke, they have been able to see the whites of her eyes when...
“It is a truth universally acknowledged,” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice, “that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...
It was long a highlight of the football calendar when, every May, on the final day of the season, supporters would be allowed to swarm onto their...
The Ukrainian Cultural Forces’ headquarters is situated above a non-descript shopping center not far outside downtown Kyiv. The walls are covered in...
On May 12, the Canadian evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad published a book called Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind. It’s a smart book, immensely...
Donna Major was shot dead in 2017 by bank robber Brandon Council, who was convicted and sentenced to death. But Joe Biden – “guided,” as he said...
I’ve been on holiday to a country that doesn’t officially exist. It has its own border, passport, flag, currency and army but no...
A few years back, I lost a significant amount of weight. It came off entirely by accident following a major unforeseen life crisis that resulted in a...
The Ukrainian Cultural Forces’ headquarters is situated above a non-descript shopping centre not far outside downtown Kyiv. The walls are covered in...
I’ve been on holiday to a country that doesn’t officially exist. It has its own border, passport, flag, currency and army but no...
It is of course hacky and hysterical to suggest America is turning into a banana republic. How else, though, can a reasonable person interpret Donald...
‘We are taking the picture to Cannes,’ said John Gore, the producer and financier of My Duchess, my new film about the Duchess of Windsor. ‘How...
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It was midnight, more or less, and my middle daughter, Magdalena, 18, said with all the untroubled bravado of youth:...
The Ukrainian Cultural Forces’ headquarters is situated above a non-descript shopping centre not far outside downtown Kyiv. The walls are covered in...
We saw rather more of Andy Burnham’s legs than most of us might have wished when he was photographed out jogging in Warrington last week. Clad in...
Stepping into Smith & Son bookshop across from the Tuileries, my first instinct is to look for signs of change. A regular customer for decades,...
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