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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...
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...
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...
To Donald Trump. The US president has shared a rather interesting video on his Truth Social platform, depicting an AI-generated Palestine with the...
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...
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...
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 –...
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...
The day after the bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas were returned to Israel, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) holds a protest outside...
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),...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2015, an orthopaedic surgeon called Limb, with three other doctors called Limb, wrote a paper on whether people’s names were correlated with...
Last December the European Commission published its ‘priorities’ for the next five years. All the bases were covered, from defence to sustainable...
It is getting rather repetitive writing that Kemi Badenoch had an uncomfortable Prime Minister’s Questions, so how about this: today’s PMQs showed...