Labour can’t avoid questions about Diane Abbott forever
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
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
The record low turnout for parliamentary elections in Iran, which took place on Friday, is another blow to the regime’s…
Why is a West End theatre putting on ‘black only’ performances?
Why would the producers of a new West End play think it a good idea to put on select performances…
Why do football managers like Thomas Tuchel always get the blame?
Bayern Munich’s decision to part ways with their coach Thomas Tuchel is a rather bizarre form of managerial sacking. Tuchel…
Pakistani democracy is on the brink
A senior official in Pakistan has publicly confessed to vote-rigging in the country’s general election earlier this month. It is…
America might regret its Baghdad drone strike
The latest American drone strike in Iraq, which killed the commander of a powerful Iranian-backed militia group, is one more…
