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Palestinians blew their best chance for peace

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Stephen Daisley

Russia is the big winner in Germany’s election

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Henry Donovan

Gary Lineker defends Gaza documentary pulled by the BBC

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Steerpike

Ashworth rules himself out of Runcorn by-election

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Steerpike

Real life / Has someone been smuggling drugs in my hay bales?

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Melissa Kite

German lessons / What Europe gets wrong about the far right

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Douglas Murray

Britain’s air defences have been neglected for too long

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Clifford Beal

Shakespeare as cruise-ship entertainment: Jamie Lloyd’s Much Ado About Nothing reviewed

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Lloyd Evans

The tiramisu is one of the loveliest things I’ve eaten anywhere: La Môme London reviewed

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Tanya Gold

I think I’ve found the perfect TV series

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James Delingpole

Shades of Berlin Bowie and Ian Curtis: Hamish Hawk, at Usher Hall, reviewed

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Graeme Thomson

Make Bond great again

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Madeline Grant

The strange superstitions of the racing world

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Robin Oakley

Ukraine wants its nuclear weapons back

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Colin Freeman

An exhilarating, uneven survey of an outstandingly eccentric British surrealist

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Hermione Eyre

Spreads emotions like jam: Festen, at the Royal Opera House, reviewed

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Richard Bratby

Nigel’s gang: Reform’s plan for power

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Katy Balls And James Heale

How to fix Germany’s broken army

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Georg Löfflmann

Best life / My secret Ukraine trip with Boris

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Rachel Johnson

The real reason for Scotland’s Six Nations defeat

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Roger Alton

How to fight back against the nanny state

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Christopher Snowdon

Out of touch / The day I went missing

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Ross Clark

Dear Mary / How do I tell my friend that hot food needs hot plates?

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Mary Killen

Pamela Anderson is a thing of wonder: The Last Showgirl reviewed

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Deborah Ross

Real artists have nothing to fear from AI

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Alexander Raubo

The strange beauty of the vigil for the Pope

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Paul Wood

Meet the Zoomer Doomers: Britain’s secret right-wing movement

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Gus Carter

Are you too middle-class to adopt?

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Judi Bevan

The problem of Britain’s idle generation

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Michael Simmons

Can Starmer score an easy win with Trump on Ukraine?

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Kate Andrews

Mike Amesbury avoids prison after punching man

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Steerpike

Chagos – the riviera of the Indian Ocean?

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Freddy Gray

The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land

The Climate Change Committee is living in cloud cuckoo land

Energy bills may be going up and the economy may be flatlining, but not for long. Thankfully, the government’s Climate Change Committee has the...

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Ross Clark

How will the Chagos deal be funded?

How will the Chagos deal be funded?

To the Commons, where Prime Minister’s Questions has this afternoon taken place. Sir Keir Starmer was asked a ranged of questions, from energy to...

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Steerpike

Chagos judge also supported slavery reparations

Chagos judge also supported slavery reparations

Well, well, well. It turns out that an international judge who ruled against Britain on the Chagos Islands has also, er, called for the UK to pay...

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Steerpike

Trump reveals glamorous Gaza vision

Trump reveals glamorous Gaza vision

To Donald Trump. The US president has shared a rather interesting video on his Truth Social platform, depicting an AI-generated Palestine with the...

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Steerpike

Blunt reality / The changing smell of Britain’s streets

Blunt reality / The changing smell of Britain’s streets

The other day, while on my lunchtime walk, I passed a woman on a mobility scooter holding an impressive-looking doobie. Later, on my bus home, a...

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G.v. Chappell

Hard graft / Boring jobs are good for you

Hard graft / Boring jobs are good for you

More than one in five people in the UK is out of work at the moment. As lockdowns lifted, many people developed anxiety and depression – most of...

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Leyla Sanai

Arts / In defence of deaccessioning

Arts / In defence of deaccessioning

There’s more than a grain of truth in the popular caricature of a curator as a mother hen clucking frantically if anyone gets too near her nest –...

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Julian Spalding

Ukrainians are keeping calm and carrying on in defiance of Trump

Ukrainians are keeping calm and carrying on in defiance of Trump

In 2023, I had coffee with the celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, on Yaroslaviv Val Street in the ancient heart of Kyiv. The modern city...

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Justin Marozzi

Protest / My strange day with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Protest / My strange day with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

The day after the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned to Israel, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) holds a protest outside...

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Tanya Gold

Will Trump’s ‘golden visas’ threaten Rachel Reeves’s tax plans?

Will Trump’s ‘golden visas’ threaten Rachel Reeves’s tax plans?

Fed up with Rachel Reeves’s tax rises, with the calls for wealth and mansion taxes, and the loss of non-dom status? For $5 million (£3.95 million),...

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Matthew Lynn

Starmer’s surprisingly ruthless foreign aid cut

Starmer’s surprisingly ruthless foreign aid cut

Ten years ago the idea of a British prime minister announcing a cut in foreign aid to 0.3 per cent of GDP would have been unthinkable. David...

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Patrick O’Flynn

What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?

What does Trump’s minerals deal mean for Ukraine?

Has Donald Trump’s heavy-handed negotiation style scored a win, or have the Ukrainians managed to wrench a victory of sorts from the jaws of...

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Mark Galeotti

How North Korea will use its $1.5 billion of stolen crypto

How North Korea will use its $1.5 billion of stolen crypto

For a country that is notorious for its lack of connection to the outside world, North Korea is one of the world experts in cyberwarfare. Only this...

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Edward Howell

Belly up / Can happiness be found in the gut?

Belly up / Can happiness be found in the gut?

I share little in common with the royal family, but like certain members of that beleaguered group, 2024 turned out to be a particular annus...

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James Innes-Smith

Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?

Who is to blame for the state of Britain’s military?

Old soldiers never die, in the words of the barrack ballad, but increasingly they do not fade away either. With an unusually intense public focus...

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Eliot Wilson

Notes on... / What does your name say about you?

In 2015, an orthopaedic surgeon called Limb, with three other doctors called Limb, wrote a paper on whether people’s names were correlated with...

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Dot Wordsworth

Europe can’t silence its working class forever

Europe can’t silence its working class forever

Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence to sustainable...

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Gavin Mortimer

PMQs / Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘patronising’ her

PMQs / Badenoch accuses Starmer of ‘patronising’ her

It is getting rather repetitive writing that Kemi Badenoch had an uncomfortable Prime Minister’s Questions, so how about this: today’s PMQs showed...

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Isabel Hardman