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Poor Prince Harry: what to do when someone close to you publicly trashes an institution you love?

Poor Prince Harry: what to do when someone close to you publicly trashes an institution you love?
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Marina Hyde

So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start

So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start
28.03.2025 10

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Marina Hyde

It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen

It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen
25.03.2025 10

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Marina Hyde

So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport?

So it’s victory for Kirsty Coventry in the IOC elections. Who says cards with a rigged deck isn’t an Olympic sport?
21.03.2025 10

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Marina Hyde

Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again

Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again
18.03.2025 60

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Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him

Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him
14.03.2025 40

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The Nigel Farage v Rupert Lowe prize fight is getting ugly. Has Reform reached its breaking point?

The Nigel Farage v Rupert Lowe prize fight is getting ugly. Has Reform reached its breaking point?
11.03.2025 7

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There are 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – and they’re all more likable than the real thing

07.03.2025 80

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It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way

04.03.2025 80

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It’s Elon Musk’s ‘pronatalist’ bonanza – so many families, so little time

25.02.2025 20

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Ah, here’s Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine – or rather, a plan to leave it in pieces

14.02.2025 40

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Keir Starmer is in a tight spot, but a ‘Trump, baby, Trump’ strategy just won’t work

11.02.2025 9

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It’s the Oscars on a knife-edge: who’ll win the award for hating Emilia Pérez the most?

07.02.2025 20

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It’s Emperor Kanye and his ‘chief architect’ – guess which one wasn’t wearing any clothes?

04.02.2025 10

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Who on Earth is really in charge here?

31.01.2025 5

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Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress

31.01.2025 7

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No, the kids are really not all right. Honestly, can you blame them?

28.01.2025 40

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Back by unpopular demand, the great Heathrow expansion show. If only planes ran on hot air

24.01.2025 70

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Into the ‘golden age’ we go with Donald Trump’s coalition of cronies and creeps

21.01.2025 4

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Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently

17.01.2025 20

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Move fast, break things – sprint to kiss Trump’s ring. It’s the tech bros inauguration derby

14.01.2025 50

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There are no adults in the room: there’s barely a room. This is politics at warp speed, and we know who’s benefiting

10.01.2025 40

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How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide

Can it really be three weeks ago that Nigel Farage and Elon Musk were posing adoringly at Mar-a-Lago, in front of that hilariously naff painting of...

07.01.2025 50

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Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters?

In her closing statement to the Post Office inquiry this week, Paula Vennells once again added the brutal murder of irony to her list of failings....

20.12.2024 30

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I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming?

No matter how much you try to digest the implications of the alleged Chinese spy scandal, some details are just comically indigestible. Take the...

17.12.2024 3

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Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn’t drink his tea

It’s fair to say the TV show Schitt’s Creek would have been a lot less funny had it concerned the family of a deposed dictator rather than the...

10.12.2024 20

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Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself

I imagine the outgoing archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t have a tattoo. But if he did, he’d have that one beloved of so many insouciant people:...

06.12.2024 5

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Marina Hyde

So Labour waded into the Gregg Wallace row. Why don’t they get their own house, Parliament, in order?

Why has the prime minister weighed in on the content of a Gregg Wallace Instagram video? News that Keir Starmer’s spokesperson has taken the...

03.12.2024 20

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Gregg Wallace is in trouble. I would tell him to put a sock on it, but isn’t that what caused the problem?

One of Gregg Wallace’s wives used to be charged with compiling his daily to-do list. As the MasterChef host once explained, in words he somehow...

29.11.2024 20

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Elon Musk and a mass petition want a new UK election. Shall we do that – or just stick to democracy?

By now you will be aware of the petition demanding another general election. Finally, an answer to what would happen if Maga had sex with the...

26.11.2024 30

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Hats off to Jaguar’s ‘inclusive’ new branding: now people of all backgrounds won’t buy its cars

There are many eve-of-the-offensive conversations I would love to have been a fly on the wall for. Inside the Trojan horse, say, with that Ancient...

22.11.2024 6

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Spare a sob for Don Jr – replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk

As the Trump presidency bears down on the world, I hope we can all concur on the prospect of being subjected to regular appearances by Donald...

19.11.2024 30

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To the stars vowing to flee Trump’s America: maybe your excruciating endorsements were part of the problem

I wish celebrities would learn the art of the French exit. But they can’t, which is why Eva Longoria has announced she no longer lives in America....

15.11.2024 20

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Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: any lessons learned from Trump 2.0 will be immediately forgotten

My husband knows masses more about US politics than me, so do imagine how much he enjoyed me spending the best part of the past two years telling...

08.11.2024 3

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Remember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system

Well … we finally got to 5 November. Of course, you know the story. Once upon a time, there was a bad guy who wanted to set fire to a country’s...

05.11.2024 4

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Trump may become president again – but he’s already a useful idiot to the mega rich

During his term as US president, there was an established routine to Donald Trump’s evenings in public service. When he got into bed at 6.30pm with...

01.11.2024 4

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I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one

In a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow. What a precedent: I’m desperately hoping...

29.10.2024 80

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Is it wrong for Elon Musk to offer voters $1m a day to get Trump elected? That’s a tough one

For a guy who has spent his entire life making “I am very rich” the keystone of his personal brand, there is something quite poignant about...

22.10.2024 60

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It was Badenoch v Jenrick on GB News. And if that all sounds bad, watching it was worse

Distressingly, the GB News stream I watched the Conservative leadership hustings on kept glitching out, meaning every time I went back in I had to...

18.10.2024 5

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One day, all matters of state will be decided through Strictly Come Dancing. That day seems near

Within two years – maybe one – the pre-eminent mode of political discourse in our society will be things that did or didn’t happen on Strictly Come...

15.10.2024 3

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Hurricane Milton has left two worlds in its wake. Elon Musk lives in one of them. The other is called reality

I increasingly wonder why Elon Musk is bothering trying to establish himself on Mars, and not just because it looks like a complete dump up there....

11.10.2024 60

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Keir Starmer is an unforced error machine – have they tried turning him off and on again?

Day two of Keir Starmer’s reset, and it’s impossible not to get caught up in the thrill of revolution. Running as the change candidate against your...

08.10.2024 10

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Marina Hyde

Hail Zuckus Maximus! The master of the metaverse is finally sorry … for being sorry

The good news is that Mark Zuckerberg has become bored of looking like an answer to the AI prompt “efit of a teen villain”. The bad? While the Meta...

27.09.2024 10

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Behind every Al Fayed or Diddy, there is a small army of enablers: this column is dedicated to them

I’m afraid I shrieked when I read that Michael Cole – longterm publicist for the late former Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed – cannot come to the...

24.09.2024 10

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With the best glasses donor money can buy, surely Starmer can see that this week has been a total disaster

Can someone gift the prime minister a designer spade? He wants to keep digging. If Keir Starmer were a celebrity, this week we’d be looking for the...

20.09.2024 4

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Here’s the real ‘enigma’ about Charlotte Owen: why we still take sexist gossip so seriously

Hello there. Today I would like to talk about Charlotte Owen. If you’ve heard of Charlotte Owen, it’s probably because you’ve read someone –...

17.09.2024 10

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It’s another British multimillionaire’s solemn farewell tour – how ever will we cope?

Always intriguing to watch the emergence of a new publicity circuit, so the warmest of welcomes to the loose collective of multimillionaires...

13.09.2024 60

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I feel deep sympathy for Kate and I’m glad she’s better. But this dance with the media devil won’t work

I wonder if we will come to look back on that supposed great virtue of our age – controlling the narrative – and see it for the cornered form of...

10.09.2024 10

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Marina Hyde

Process fee, service fee, delivery fee … Who wouldn’t pay to see Ticketmaster rinsed by the regulator?

Ticketmaster has a dream. A dream that one day, it will be “pleased to have partnered with” your child’s school, making it “easier for you to buy...

06.09.2024 10

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Oasis reunite; Harry and Wills could be next. Nothing like money to bring people together

Praise be – for it has happened. The streams have officially been crossed. Imagine my delight to type in two of Earth’s most lavishly provocative...

03.09.2024 10

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Marina Hyde