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Suella Braverman avoids speeding fine probe

24 May 2023 9:12 pm

Suella Braverman will not face an investigation into whether she broke the ministerial code over her handling of a speeding…

Inflation falls to 8.7% – but pressures remain

24 May 2023 7:01 pm

Since the start of the year, politicians and central bankers have been promising a collapse in the inflation rate. But…

Will Ron DeSantis announce he’s running for president on Twitter?

24 May 2023 8:42 am

Ron DeSantis is set to announce his 2024 presidential bid during a Twitter Space with the app’s ‘chief Twit’ Elon…

Boris referred to the police over lockdown breaches (again)

24 May 2023 4:41 am

Just when Boris thought the worst was over with Partygate. The former Prime Minister has today been referred to the…

We need to talk about Just Stop Oil’s class privilege

24 May 2023 3:32 am

I have never felt such a strong desire to buy a man a pint as I did when I watched…

How the Cardiff riot was sparked by social media

24 May 2023 2:18 am

After a traumatic night which saw rioters torch cars, volley fireworks at police, and indulge in nine hours of mayhem,…

Tory MPs line up to support Suella Braverman

23 May 2023 11:53 pm

Once it was David Gauke, then it was Michael Ellis. Now it is Jeremy Quin who bears the honorary title…

Are things beginning to look up for the UK economy?

23 May 2023 10:24 pm

We learned this morning just how much the government is struggling to keep its promise to bring down the national debt. But…

Prince Harry’s legal defeat will be particularly painful

23 May 2023 10:14 pm

Today, Prince Harry lost a court case. If the law of averages is to be believed, he has involved himself…

Is Germany turning against the EU’s Green Deal?

23 May 2023 10:03 pm

Last week it was President Macron who was rowing back on green measures. In a speech he asserted that Europe…

Prince Harry loses his police protection legal challenge

23 May 2023 10:02 pm

It turns out that Home Office can get some things right. The department’s lawyers have today triumphed in their battle…

Muslim activists can’t cancel The Kerala Story

23 May 2023 9:56 pm

Britain’s cinemas are in danger of becoming the new front line of protests from angry religious mobs demanding the cancellation…

Martin Amis and the idolatry of style over substance

23 May 2023 9:25 pm

To be a bookish young man in the late twentieth century was to be a Martin Amis fan. I was…

What is Lee Anderson up to?

23 May 2023 6:28 pm

A new week brings with it a new backbench group. The New Conservatives are a dozen MPs who are drawn…

Is Macron losing France’s war on drugs?

23 May 2023 5:37 pm

The story that dominated much of the French media last week was the vicious assault of a shopkeeper in Amiens. A…

Elon Musk, George Soros and the blurring of life and art

23 May 2023 5:00 pm

Was Elon Musk antisemitic when he compared George Soros to Magneto, the apparently Jewish, Marvel Comics supervillain? Whatever one’s view…

The price others pay for our next-day deliveries

23 May 2023 4:54 pm

When I was not more than nine or ten years old, I sent off in the post for a free poster…

Bud Light remains for sale in virtually every Trump Organization business

23 May 2023 8:07 am

As the Bud Light War enters what feels like its fifth year, Cockburn has further evidence that America’s “wokest” brew…

Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum

23 May 2023 5:46 am

Mimi Vang Olsen operates in the West Village equivalent of a goldfish bowl. Every day, the eighty-five-year-old pet portraitist settles…

What Suella Braverman needs to do to keep her job

23 May 2023 2:40 am

As luck would have it, the Home Secretary was down to answer departmental questions in the chamber this afternoon, and…

Gary Lineker honoured for his activism by Amnesty

23 May 2023 1:15 am

They say genius is never appreciated in its own time. So we can only be grateful that Gary Lineker’s activism…

New Democracy’s election success is a turning point for Greece

23 May 2023 1:00 am

With early results showing a resounding victory for the centre-right New Democracy (ND) in the first round of elections in…

A tribute to my brother, Jeremy Clarke

23 May 2023 12:50 am

My big brother Jeremy Clarke, or ‘Jum’ as he is affectionately known by me and my sister, was the most…

Sunak can’t afford to lose Braverman

23 May 2023 12:07 am

Back in the early days of the Blair governments, Alastair Campbell was reputed to have a rule for resignations: once…

Has Ukraine launched a ‘special military operation’ in Russia?

23 May 2023 12:01 am

While the world is waiting for Ukraine’s spring offensive, something very different happened this morning: an incursion into Russian territory.…