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Marina HydeThe Guardian |
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:...
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 trouble...
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 said...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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 him...
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...
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...
In a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow. What a precedent: I’m desperately hoping...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
Always intriguing to watch the emergence of a new publicity circuit, so the warmest of welcomes to the loose collective of multimillionaires currently...
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...
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...
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...
Reports that Keir Starmer has moved a portrait of Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street put me in two minds. On the one hand it could be nothing; on the...
“I loved the way I dedicated my services to her,” wrote Dr Conrad Murray of his “most noble” patient. “It was totally selfless because when...
Would you like to travel in the advance party to Mars, aboard the space rocket of a man who can’t sort a livestream? Ideally you would have to get...
Is Keir Starmer eyeing Elon Musk as a useful villain for his season one? If so, I can’t help feeling the prime minister’s chances of getting a...
“My kids are crying. We come here so I could spend some quality time with them. Now they are scared people are coming here to get them.” Thus...
Boris Johnson’s supporters will always tell you he is hugely popular in the US, so the spectacle of the former British prime minister addressing a...
Encouraging scenes from the Republican national convention (RNC), where US politicians and the wider world are being told to dial down their rhetoric...
Light the touchpaper on your flares, because England stands on the threshold of two days of giddy possibility. There is, quite simply, no greater...
The Joe Biden re-election campaign is now a situation where you want to put your hands over your eyes even when your hands are already over your eyes....
Well, if you’re just joining us, the nation has delivered an all-night victim impact statement. Labour has won a landslide and the Conservatives...
“We’re not pitching you a new Netflix series,” intoned Labour’s shadow business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, this week. “We’re not...
Psychologically speaking, I feel I understood the last two prime ministers only as they were leaving us. With Liz Truss this might seem...
No rest for political cartographers. It turns out that what lay beyond America’s uncharted waters was some more uncharted waters. The unanimous...
Even in a year of largely lacklustre summer movies, you have to accept the reality that Rishi Sunak has scheduled his election against the release of...
The biggest shift in American politics has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels or Michael Cohen, Fox News or golf courses. Indeed, its author is not...
The former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells would like the victims of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history to know that...
Strange to think the northern lights have been glimpsed in public more frequently over the past few years than the former Post Office CEO Paula...
In 2010, the Commons health select committee warned the new Conservative-led government that the NHS in England was facing cuts rather than the...
A hazmat dredger, please, to the stretch of the River Thames on which Russell Brand was recently baptised, in an event apparently conducted by TV...
What will happen next in the still-mushrooming Baby Reindeer saga? Probably one or more of a number of bad things. Latest bad thing to happen (at time...
Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone...