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Is Steve Bannon really pulling the strings in Team Trump?

19 November 2016 9:00 am

Donald J. Trump always keeps everyone guessing. Is the president-elect ditching his crazy act in order to bring in a…

Italy’s heading for its own Brexit moment

19 November 2016 9:00 am

Though he is a big fan of the European Union, Barack Obama brings bad karma to it. So perhaps he…

I met Donald Trump’s Russian fan club (and fought them on TV)

19 November 2016 9:00 am

Moscow To the Union Jack pub on Potapovsky Lane for a US election night party. The jolly Muscovite Trump supporters…

Dating apps let us pair off by looks. That’s a disaster – as I found out

19 November 2016 9:00 am

“Is she really going out with him?’ asks the old Joe Jackson song about a mixed-attractiveness couple. ‘They say that…

Ruby Walsh riding Al Ferof at Cheltenham

National Hunt racing

17 November 2016 3:00 pm

‘A more thrilling, uplifting, glorious way of living has yet to be invented,’ the jockey John Francome said of National…

Trump’s triumph

12 November 2016 9:00 am

 Washington DC Donald J. Trump’s long, triumphant march to the White House didn’t start on 16 June 2015, when he…

China’s quiet Christians

12 November 2016 9:00 am

 Beijing A strong coffee always perks me up on a smoggy day, especially when I can drink it somewhere clandestine…

An opportunity for Britain

12 November 2016 9:00 am

When Britain voted to leave the European Union, the government was at pains to insist this was not a vote…

The new first lady

12 November 2016 9:00 am

It was a race between the first dude — Bill — and the first nude — Melania. And in the…

In defence of post-truth politics

12 November 2016 9:00 am

Donald Trump’s shock US election victory has provoked a transatlantic howl of disbelief from a cosmopolitan elite aghast that American…

Like Uber, but for hippies

12 November 2016 9:00 am

On the same day I put my spare room on Airbnb I also had my first cabshare experience, courtesy of…

The Marx Memorial Library

12 November 2016 9:00 am

There’s a small corner of Clerkenwell where the communist dream never died. The Marx Memorial Library has been in its…

The library photographed in 1958

The Marx Memorial Library

10 November 2016 3:00 pm

There’s a small corner of Clerkenwell where the communist dream never died. The Marx Memorial Library has been in its…

Notes on California

5 November 2016 9:00 am

The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…

Star-spangled banter

5 November 2016 9:00 am

This weekend at the Edenbridge bonfire in Kent, near where I live, an effigy of Donald Trump will be burned.…

A tale of two battles

5 November 2016 9:00 am

For the past few weeks, British news-papers have been informing their readers about two contrasting battles in the killing grounds…

Bordering on insanity

5 November 2016 9:00 am

There are lots of signs at Gatwick about how it is unacceptable to be ‘rude or abusive’ to Border Force…

Vicar, can you spare a dime?

5 November 2016 9:00 am

‘I am a Messianic Jew,’ says the jittery young man at the rectory door. He is pale and drawn, with…

Take a letter

5 November 2016 9:00 am

Enrolling at Parsons College in New York the other day, a friend was asked to state her name, subject and…

Home to roost

5 November 2016 9:00 am

‘Prefabs to solve housing crisis,’ screamed the front page of the Sunday Telegraph last weekend. Can the shortage of homes…

Breaking the Bank

5 November 2016 9:00 am

The exchange of letters this week between Mark Carney and Philip Hammond made it very clear who the supplicant was.…

Notes on California

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…

Too big not to fail

29 October 2016 9:00 am

‘Bad policy.’ ‘No discernible impact on the key outcomes it was supposed to improve.’ ‘Deliberate misrepresentation of the data… a…

‘Hillary Clinton is a disaster!’

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Talking to Camille Paglia is like approaching a machine gun: madness to stick your head up and ask a question,…

Le Pen’s long game

29 October 2016 9:00 am

Marine Le Pen can be excused for thinking her time has come. With six months to go until France’s presidential…