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Politics / In praise of Peter Kyle

Julie Burchill

I’m beginning to question our gun laws

Sean Thomas

Javier Milei is struggling

Sam Meadows

The forgotten history of France’s doomed invasion of Taiwan

Paddy Stephens

Will assisted dying become a cover for abuse?

Dan Hitchens

Graham Linehan is right: there needs to be a reckoning at the BBC

Charlie Walsham

Autists are the answer to Britain’s worklessness crisis

Bartek Staniszewski

Ghost Month / The forgotten history of France’s doomed invasion of Taiwan

Paddy Stephens

The crime the Netherlands would rather forget

Arnout Nuijt

What Keir Starmer can learn from Ramsay MacDonald

Will Prescott

Art attack / Bored of Banksy

Matthew Wilcox

Bored of Banksy

Matthew Wilcox

Locked and loaded / I’m beginning to question our gun laws

Sean Thomas

In praise of Peter Kyle

Julie Burchill

Shouldn’t Greenwich’s Royal Naval College be used for something better?

Nigel Jones

Inside Zarah Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ rally

Lloyd Evans

France has become Italy – and not in a good way

Nicholas Farrell

Why is Rachel Reeves encouraging high earners to retire early?

Robert Taylor

The wild world of the ‘Ozempic safari’

Henrietta Harding

Argentina / Javier Milei is struggling

Sam Meadows

Would Israel carry out assassinations in Britain?

Damien Phillips

Quiet please! / When did libraries become so noisy?

Claire Jackson

When did libraries become so noisy?

Claire Jackson

United States / Charlie Kirk could have been president

Rory Hanrahan

Dear right / Julie Burchill, remembered

Julie Burchill

The Office is the TV show that will never die

Robert Jackman

Could Wes Streeting move against Starmer?

Richard Johnson

Lords line up against assisted dying

Steerpike

Trump: Charlie Kirk suspect in custody

Steerpike

Penalty fares surge after Jenrick Tube stunt

Steerpike

Britain’s growth figures are even worse than they look

Ross Clark

Politics / The return of Keir vs Andy

James Heale

Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR

Andrew Tettenborn

What is Prince Harry up to in Ukraine?

Alexander Larman

Keir Starmer was a fool to ever tie himself to Peter Mandelson

Nick Cohen

How to survive Florence with your family

Alec Marsh

Why I gave up on the Tories

Nadine Dorries

Any other business / The Pret plunge isn’t quite what it seems

Martin Vander Weyer

Micheal Martin is on the wrong side of the flag debate