Jawad Iqbal

The Tories’ best hope is to keep Sunak away from the camera

12 June 2024 10:44 pm

Is Rishi Sunak Labour’s not-so-secret weapon in this election campaign? The question has to be asked after Sunak’s latest political…

Vaughan Gething’s impressive failure

6 June 2024 4:32 am

Vaughan Gething, First Minister of Wales, has managed to achieve the remarkable feat of losing a no confidence vote –…

The humbling of Narendra Modi

5 June 2024 3:03 am

There was never really any serious doubt that India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, would win a historic third term in…

Ed Davey’s election stunts are going to backfire

31 May 2024 10:07 pm

The Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, has come up with a novel way of ensuring his party gets greater…

Labour can’t avoid questions about Diane Abbott forever

30 May 2024 1:29 am

The Labour leadership has only itself to blame for becoming embroiled in a bitter and divisive row over the future…

Gareth Southgate has finally shown some bottle

22 May 2024 2:52 am

The provisional England squad for the Euros unveiled by manager Gareth Southgate contains one notable omission: Jordan Henderson. That’s a…

Iran’s president and foreign minister killed in helicopter crash

20 May 2024 4:08 pm

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and the country’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian have been killed in a helicopter crash in north-western…

It’s already going wrong for Vaughan Gething

18 May 2024 3:54 am

Plaid Cymru’s sudden decision to end its co-operation deal with Labour in Wales piles even more pressure on the First…

The Tories can’t even organise a crackdown on rainbow lanyards

15 May 2024 2:15 am

A suggested government ban on rainbow-coloured lanyards in the civil service has, perhaps unsurprisingly, proved divisive at the highest reaches…

The dignity of Eden Golan

12 May 2024 9:35 pm

Two questions dominated last night’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Malmo, Sweden. First, whether 20-year-old Eden Golan, Israel’s entrant, would…

India is becoming a chess superpower

28 April 2024 3:30 pm

The Indian chess prodigy Dommaraju Gukesh has made history by becoming the youngest challenger ever for the world chess title.…

Campus Gaza protests are crippling US universities

24 April 2024 2:08 am

University campuses across the United States are facing a growing wave of student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.…

Who would want to buy Selfridges?

23 April 2024 4:00 am

A stake in Selfridges – the most iconic department store in the vast retail emporium of Oxford Street – is…

It’s not over yet between Israel and Iran

19 April 2024 11:07 pm

Is that it? This is the immediate and understandable reaction in some quarters to the news that Israel has carried…

The tragedy of Emma Raducanu

18 April 2024 4:15 pm

It is hard not to feel a teeny weeny bit sorry for Emma Raducanu, who was hailed as the next…

The Foreign Office is in trouble if David Lammy takes charge

17 April 2024 11:23 pm

The heart sinks at the latest thoughts espoused by David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, on a future Labour government’s…

Prize money doesn’t belong at the Olympics

11 April 2024 6:22 pm

Lord Coe, the president of World Athletics, has come up with the daft and damaging idea that athletes should be…

Why are Foreign Office mandarins so ashamed of their own country?

8 April 2024 11:45 pm

The Foreign Office has been criticised as ‘elitist and rooted in the past’ in a scathing report by some of…

The painful truth about Gareth Southgate’s England

27 March 2024 5:01 pm

Football, so they say, is a results business – except when it comes to Gareth Southgate, the England manager. In…

The West must wake up to the threat of Islamic State-Khorasan

25 March 2024 1:29 am

It is time to wake up to the growing international threat posed by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), the group believed to…

Where did it all go wrong for Brazil’s football team?

23 March 2024 5:45 pm

When England play Brazil in a friendly at Wembley tonight they will go into the game as firm favourites to…

British politics has a democracy problem

17 March 2024 5:35 am

Vaughan Gething, the victor in the Welsh Labour leadership contest, will now become Wales’s first black First Minister. It is…

Will the mystery of MH370 ever be solved?

8 March 2024 5:00 pm

Ten years ago today, on 8 March 2014, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, en-route to Beijing…

Who cares that Rishi Sunak makes his own bed?

6 March 2024 3:07 am

Mr and Mrs Sunak of Downing Street have given a joint interview to Grazia magazine in which they give answers…

The Iranian people have had enough

3 March 2024 9:18 pm

The record low turnout for parliamentary elections in Iran, which took place on Friday, is another blow to the regime’s…