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“How do you know how much to pay if you don’t know what it is worth?” So ends Theft: A Love Story by the Australian novelist Peter Carey. This...
More than five decades ago, Richard Nixon launched a “war on drugs”. The drugs won. Now Donald Trump is turning a failed metaphor into a worse...
Over the years, a select few BBC radio programmes have carved out distinctive niches in the nation’s affections. High on many people’s lists of...
The exchange of letters between Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer closes one chapter and opens another. Ms Rayner accepted the verdict of the...
When it is not framed around cost savings, discussion of public service reform these days mostly focuses on technology. This is most obvious in...
In 1995, Nick Leeson, a 28-year-old trader for Barings Bank, brought down the City’s oldest finance house by, among other things, betting that the...
Disadvantaged primary school pupils at the government’s first wave of new breakfast clubs can expect to be trained in toothbrushing, as well as fed....
Zack Polanski’s landslide election as leader of the Green party marks a turning point for Britain’s fractured left. Young, rhetorically fluent and...
Donald Trump’s imperial tendencies see the US president wield tariffs and sanctions in the expectation that America will receive tributes. Yet his...
With the change of season, ministers know they must get back on the front foot after weeks during which their opponents have made the political...
Donald Trump’s attempt to sack the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, is the familiar authoritarian trick of bending institutions to serve the...
The decision by Nottinghamshire council’s Reform UK leader, Mick Barton, to ban his councillors from speaking to the Nottingham Post is as absurd...
Wednesday night brought a grim return to Russia’s form: one of the heaviest air raids on Kyiv since the full-scale invasion began. Moscow eased off...
Following a startling victory for Marine Le Pen in European elections last June, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, foolishly called a snap...
Britain’s relationship with the European Union was not a prominent issue in national debate when Sir Keir Starmer became prime minister, and Downing...
Tragedy has piled on tragedy in Gaza. Yet Israel’s attack on Nasser hospital – the only functioning public hospital left in the south – still...
Nigel Farage wants you to believe Britain could deport 288,000 people annually. That’s nearly 800 a day – 30 times the current rate of...