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Why should Israel tolerate Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attacks?
The slaughter of a dozen child footballers on Sunday came as a startling sign that the situation in northern Israel…
The filthy Seine is a fitting symbol of Macron’s chaotic Olympics
The good news for France is that their athletes have been winning some medals in the Paris Olympics. The bad…
How Labour U-turned on scrapping winter fuel payments
Keir Starmer’s party has only been in government for three weeks – and already they’re spinning like a top. Rachel…
The horror of the Southport knife attack
Three children have died and eight have been injured, five critically, after a series of stabbings in Southport, Merseyside. Two…
How to solve Europe’s anti-tourist backlash
In the town of Sintra, a suburb of Lisbon, some strongly-worded graffiti greets travellers like me. It reads: ‘F**k you…
The significance of Reeves’s social care surprise
A much bigger story than Rachel Reeves cancelling the winter fuel payment is her announcement today that she is finally…
Republicans need to bring it home for me and my three cats
I am forty, I’m perpetually single, I have no kids, and I own three cats. No, this isn’t a reboot…
Is Rachel Reeves really worried about a fiscal black hole?
There is one over-arching question hanging over Rachel Reeves’s speech today, in which she claimed that a £21.9 billion hole…
Rachel Reeves paves the way for spending cuts and tax hikes
Rachel Reeves has just announced a series of spending cuts in the House of Commons. These were ‘incredibly tough choices’,…
Rachel Reeves is right to cut the ‘winter fuel’ bung
A millionaire I know has a tradition every year: he buys a bottle of vintage wine with his Winter Fuel…
Will the US apply pressure to combat Maduro’s election fraud?
Sunday night was a long one in Venezuela. At midnight, the much anticipated yet dubious results came in for the…
The UN would have Israel accept attacks on its citizens
The slaughter of 12 children on an Israeli soccer pitch was awful, of course, but it’s important not to overreact…
What the Labour Growth Group is really about
In a month full of parliamentary firsts, we now have another: the formation of the first new Labour caucus. More…
‘Yellow card’ system to stop Tory leadership turmoil
Nominations for the Tory leadership race have this afternoon closed – and the competition now has six official candidates. Kemi…
Maduro’s win spells despair for Venezuela
It was meant to be a crushing defeat ending 25 years of socialist rule, and the presidency of a man…
Was the far left to blame for France’s Olympic railway chaos?
Trains are again running normally in France today after engineers worked over the weekend to repair the damage caused by…
Watch: Just Stop Oil tries – and fails – to cause chaos at Gatwick
Just Stop Oil eco-activists took to Gatwick Airport this morning – but their attempt to disrupt summer holiday travellers appears…
What we didn’t learn from the Manchester Airport police ‘attack’
There’s a famous 1986 TV advert for the Guardian (remember when newspapers had TV adverts?) which shows you footage of…
Will Rachel Reeves get away with a ‘doctors’ mandate’ to hike taxes?
It’s ‘blame the Tories’ day in Westminster as Rachel Reeves prepares to take centre stage. The new Chancellor will this…
Trump’s crackdown on Mexico’s narco-cartels won’t work
Donald Trump has said he would not rule out military action against Mexico’s narco-cartels which he blames for the opioid crisis killing…
Is Robert Jenrick fit to lead the Tories?
As the Conservative leadership contest gets underway, the various candidates are busy talking up their differences. But most of the…
What’s the problem with playing Premier League football in the US?
Sadiq Khan has suggested that the long rumoured prospect of Premier League fixtures being played in the United States is…
Things are about to get ugly in Venezuela
At 3:45 a.m., the sun was not yet out in the Venezuelan valley of Caracas, but Andrés, a twenty-two-year old…
Suella Braverman bows out with a blast
The Tory leadership race is hotting up and there’s lots of familiar faces featuring this time around. Kemi Badenoch, Priti…
Can anyone stop Kemi Badenoch?
Kemi Badenoch has become the sixth – and potentially last – candidate to enter the Conservative leadership race. In an…
