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Hope might be the only strategy Sunak has left
The first King’s Speech for more than 70 years was a festival of the expected: the royal reading of a…
Are smartphones making us care less about humanity?
Generation Z were the first to grow up attached to smartphones. They spent their adolescence bathed in screen-light and now…
Are you a creative or a destructive?
There is a stage direction in The Glass Menagerie in which Tennessee Williams describes a tune that will recur through…
Starmer’s foreign policy problem is only just beginning
This could have been the week that Keir Starmer buckled under pressure from his party and called for a ceasefire…
Is this where world war three starts?
Daugavpils You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…
When righteous anger goes wrong
From abroad I’ve returned to a country where, in language to which the word ‘shrill’ hardly does justice, fellow British…
It’s time to cut our ties with Qatar
A friend of mine was recently doing business with the Qataris. Nothing strange there: a lot of people have in…