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Mark Andrews: How to cope with an energy crisis, the collapse of NCP, and why it's a bit rich for Donald Trump to call us cowards

Mark Andrews: How to cope with an energy crisis, the collapse of NCP, and why it's a bit rich for Donald Trump to call us cowards

The International Energy Agency is advising us to prepare for an energy crisis by working from home more, using our cars less, and cooking meals with...

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Mark Andrews: How to cope with an energy crisis, the collapse of NCP, and why it's a bit rich for Donald Trump to call us cowards

Mark Andrews: How to cope with an energy crisis, the collapse of NCP, and why it's a bit rich for Donald Trump to call us cowards

The International Energy Agency is advising us to prepare for an energy crisis by working from home more, using our cars less, and cooking meals with...

monday 10

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Working with Peter Rhodes was great fun and a huge education - he will be truly missed

Working with Peter Rhodes was great fun and a huge education - he will be truly missed

Deadline is looming. The newsroom is reverberating to the sound of ringing phones, tense hacks hammering away at their keyboards. Any conversations...

21.03.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Dubai influencers, the madness of the Government's new ID app, and 10 years after we voted to leave the EU, it's coming after our veggie bacon

Mark Andrews: Dubai influencers, the madness of the Government's new ID app, and 10 years after we voted to leave the EU, it's coming after our veggie bacon

Remember all those idiot 'influencers' who, a few months ago, were bragging about how they were leaving the UK for Dubai, where they would...

16.03.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Dubai influencers, the madness of the Government's new ID app, and 10 years after we voted to leave the EU, it's coming after our veggie bacon

Mark Andrews: Dubai influencers, the madness of the Government's new ID app, and 10 years after we voted to leave the EU, it's coming after our veggie bacon

Remember all those idiot 'influencers' who, a few months ago, were bragging about how they were leaving the UK for Dubai, where they would...

16.03.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Shabana's £40,000 asylum giveaway, World Book Day, and how Trump should choose Iran's next leader

I'm thinking of starting up a side-hustle in people trafficking, to take advantage of the Home Secretary's new plan to encourage enterprise....

07.03.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Shabana's £40,000 asylum giveaway, World Book Day, and how Trump should choose Iran's next leader

I'm thinking of starting up a side-hustle in people trafficking, to take advantage of the Home Secretary's new plan to encourage enterprise....

07.03.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Aliens, ski-jumpers with big packages, and our brave new world under Zack Polanski

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news How will you be celebrating? I was thinking along the lines of a vegan-friendly street party...

28.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Aliens, ski-jumpers with big packages, and our brave new world under Zack Polanski

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news How will you be celebrating? I was thinking along the lines of a vegan-friendly street party...

28.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Heckling the King, and why the Equality Act is about as British as a branch of Aldi

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Is heckling the King a step too far? Reporters have been accused of disrespect for shouting...

21.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Heckling the King, and why the Equality Act is about as British as a branch of Aldi

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Is heckling the King a step too far? Reporters have been accused of disrespect for shouting...

21.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Lowering the drink-drive limit, Jimmy Lai, and the real menace on the road

It is 12 years since the Scottish government decided to reduce the drink-drive limit from 80 microgrammes per 100ml of breath to 50, and every...

14.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Lowering the drink-drive limit, Jimmy Lai, and the real menace on the road

It is 12 years since the Scottish government decided to reduce the drink-drive limit from 80 microgrammes per 100ml of breath to 50, and every...

14.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: The mysterious powers of Peter Mandelson, and arguing with an AI chatbot about a vacuum cleaner filter

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Is this really the end for Peter Mandelson? Exiled from the Labour Party, no longer sitting in the...

08.02.2026 7

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Mark Andrews: The mysterious powers of Peter Mandelson, and arguing with an AI chatbot about a vacuum cleaner filter

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Is this really the end for Peter Mandelson? Exiled from the Labour Party, no longer sitting in the...

08.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Brooklyn's privacy conundrum, computers in schools, and Lanyards 1, Hero bus driver 0

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In his rather self-aggrandising statement about his spat with his parents, Brooklyn Beckham said he...

03.02.2026 6

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Mark Andrews: Brooklyn's privacy conundrum, computers in schools, and Lanyards 1, Hero bus driver 0

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In his rather self-aggrandising statement about his spat with his parents, Brooklyn Beckham said he...

01.02.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: No more slogans, PM's defence challenge, and why Trump may have shown us how to erase the national debt

Putting on his stern face and serious voice in a sombre address from the Downing Street branch of Oak Furniture Land - er, sorry,.the briefing room -...

27.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: No more slogans, PM's defence challenge, and why Trump may have shown us how to erase the national debt

Putting on his stern face and serious voice in a sombre address from the Downing Street branch of Oak Furniture Land - er, sorry,.the briefing room -...

27.01.2026 5

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Mark Andrews: Police chief Craig Guildford auditions for The Thick of It, China's new embassy, and a peaceful way for Donald Trump to take over Greenland

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at he week's news Watching the now-retired West Midlands Chief Constable Craig Guildford and his sidekicks giving...

20.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Police chief Craig Guildford auditions for The Thick of It, China's new embassy, and a peaceful way for Donald Trump to take over Greenland

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at he week's news Watching the now-retired West Midlands Chief Constable Craig Guildford and his sidekicks giving...

20.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Trump's sour grapes, Storm Goretti, and when did shoplifting become socially acceptable?

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week that was This week West Midlands Police posted a photo of a man they wanted to speak to in connection with...

11.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Trump's sour grapes, Storm Goretti, and when did shoplifting become socially acceptable?

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week that was This week West Midlands Police posted a photo of a man they wanted to speak to in connection with...

11.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Indiana Jones was a TV turn-off, and questions about whether the PM understands the private sector

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news It was a kind gesture of Sir Keir Starmer to put on a Christmas dinner for invite 93 public sector...

06.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Indiana Jones was a TV turn-off, and questions about whether the PM understands the private sector

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news It was a kind gesture of Sir Keir Starmer to put on a Christmas dinner for invite 93 public sector...

06.01.2026 10

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Mark Andrews: Never mind the Ruskies, it's the robots that worry me. And why Nigel Farage was wrong about Alf Garnett.

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Did you get anything nice for Christmas? Socks, Meltis Newberry Fruits, Mad Lizzie fitness video? I...

28.12.2025 9

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Mark Andrews: Never mind the Ruskies, it's the robots that worry me. And why Nigel Farage was wrong about Alf Garnett.

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news Did you get anything nice for Christmas? Socks, Meltis Newberry Fruits, Mad Lizzie fitness video? I...

28.12.2025 6

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Mark Andrews: Joey Barton is the tip of a poisonous iceberg that is contaminating social media

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a candid interview with Sky Sports reporter Katie Barnfield, Joey Barton confided his innermost...

23.12.2025 8

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Mark Andrews: Joey Barton is the tip of a poisonous iceberg that is contaminating social media

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a candid interview with Sky Sports reporter Katie Barnfield, Joey Barton confided his innermost...

23.12.2025 9

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Legendary columnist Peter Rhodes writes his last words for the Star, after 40 years of keeping readers informed and entertained. Here are his reasons why

Peter Rhodes, one of this newspaper's best-loved writers for more than 40 years, is finally packing away his pen after revealing he has been diagnosed...

18.12.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Why my combi boiler was a mistake, and John Major only has himself to blame about Brexit

Research by a university in Milan found that putting a man in a Batman suit in a carriage on the city's underground had a positive effect on the...

07.12.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Why my combi boiler was a mistake, and John Major only has himself to blame about Brexit

Research by a university in Milan found that putting a man in a Batman suit in a carriage on the city's underground had a positive effect on the...

07.12.2025 7

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Mark Andrews: MPs contend with an outdated gym, Alf Garnett's mansion tax, and Rachel's troublesome Uncle Terry

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news As if there is not enough wrong with this country at the moment, government minister and Birmingham...

03.12.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: MPs contend with an outdated gym, Alf Garnett's mansion tax, and Rachel's troublesome Uncle Terry

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news As if there is not enough wrong with this country at the moment, government minister and Birmingham...

02.12.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Mandelson takes a leak, the problem with Shabana's asylum plan, and why I favour building a town even more horrible than Milton Keynes

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In government, New Labour svengali Peter Mandelson had a reputation as being king of the leaks,...

23.11.2025 8

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Mark Andrews: Mandelson takes a leak, the problem with Shabana's asylum plan, and why I favour building a town even more horrible than Milton Keynes

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In government, New Labour svengali Peter Mandelson had a reputation as being king of the leaks,...

23.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Small boats v private jets, institutional bias at the BBC, and why the PM has copped a wrong 'un on police commissioners

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "The people who do the most harm to this country are those who arrive by private jets, not small...

18.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Small boats v private jets, institutional bias at the BBC, and why the PM has copped a wrong 'un on police commissioners

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news "The people who do the most harm to this country are those who arrive by private jets, not small...

16.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Kids don't need 'citizenship' classes, they just need a leaflet with 7 easy bullet points. Here's what they should be

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news The Government has announced a review of the national curriculum, with compulsory lessons in...

09.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Kids don't need 'citizenship' classes, they just need a leaflet with 7 easy bullet points. Here's what they should be

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news The Government has announced a review of the national curriculum, with compulsory lessons in...

09.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Rude traffic wardens, Rachel Reeves' property nightmares, and nostalgia for the return of the Invacar

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news MP Cat Eccles has complains about the rudeness of traffic wardens in her Stourbridge constituency,...

05.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Rude traffic wardens, Rachel Reeves' property nightmares, and nostalgia for the return of the Invacar

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news MP Cat Eccles has complains about the rudeness of traffic wardens in her Stourbridge constituency,...

04.11.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: A new career for Prince Andrew, generous cities, and why this 'benefits influencer' makes my blood boil

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at he week's news According to the Benefact Group, Wolverhampton is the third kindest city in the UK, Not as generous as...

26.10.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: A new career for Prince Andrew, generous cities, and why this 'benefits influencer' makes my blood boil

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at he week's news According to the Benefact Group, Wolverhampton is the third kindest city in the UK, Not as generous as...

26.10.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Israelis banned from Villa Park, boycotting banks, and protesters unhappy about the ceasefire

Mark Andrews casts a wry eye over the week's news Next month Maccabi Tel Aviv will come to the West Midlands for a Europa League clash against Aston...

21.10.2025 60

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Mark Andrews: Israelis banned from Villa Park, boycotting banks, and protesters unhappy about the ceasefire

Mark Andrews casts a wry eye over the week's news Next month Maccabi Tel Aviv will come to the West Midlands for a Europa League clash against Aston...

19.10.2025 9

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I'm Asian and I think Jenrick is right - former Dudley College lecturer says Handsworth has become a 'ghetto'

A leading Asian academic and writer from the West Midlands has backed Robert Jenrick's controversial comments about the Handsworth area of Birmingham....

16.10.2025 20

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Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a crackdown on rogue vape shops, the Government has said all sellers of e-cigarettes will need to...

14.10.2025 40

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Mark Andrews: How the decline of Corrie mirrors today's politics, Lenny's call for reparations, and David Lammy joining the Chippendales

Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news In a crackdown on rogue vape shops, the Government has said all sellers of e-cigarettes will need to...

12.10.2025 10

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Mark Andrews: Manchester horror shows why all sides need to calm down and end the protests, plus death-trap scooters

About 1,500 protestors will converge on Trafalgar Square today to voice their support for the banned group Palestine Action. They will ignore requests...

07.10.2025 20

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