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The European elections and the ascent of the right
Can the ‘far right’ still really be called the ‘far right’ if it becomes the mainstream? That’s a question for…
Macron’s snap election is his biggest gamble yet
Emmanuel Macron tonight dissolved France’s National Assembly and announced there will be new parliamentary elections with the first round of…
Watch: Green leader’s nuclear disaster
There are some decent arguments in favour of unilateral disarmament. So it’s a pity then that Carla Denyer did not…
Watch: Tory aide stops Holden grilling
Which Tory minister is having the worst week in politics? It’s a title that Rishi Sunak seemed to have sewn…
Sunday shows round-up: Farage doubles down on D-Day attack on PM
Rishi Sunak has been accused of making a massive error of judgment after he exited the D-Day commemorations early on…
Minister: ‘No question’ of replacing Sunak
It’s three days since Rishi Sunak’s Normandy gaffe but there’s no sign of the row going away anytime soon. The…
Why I’ll be voting Reform (reluctantly)
I’ve always loved voting. No matter how many times I’ve been disappointed, I’ll be out there next time round getting…
How Putin plans to fund a forever war in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s costly war in Ukraine has transformed Russia as the president has forced the country to pivot onto a…
The hardest part of climbing Mount Everest isn’t what you think
Everest is, we’re told, ‘the highest garbage dump in the world’. It’s a place, if you believe the reports from…
Does the fate of Foot’s Labour show what could happen to the Tories?
The party is floundering. Its leaders are at odds with their activists about what are their core beliefs. It is…
Agatha Christie and the truth about detective fiction’s Golden Age
A hundred years ago, the Golden Age of detective fiction was taking off. In the years that followed, Agatha Christie,…
Will my generation still remember D-Day?
In the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, just inland of Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, a crowd had gathered before…
Why Biden’s Gaza ceasefire proposal failed
Ceasefire deals to end the war in Gaza have come and gone. President Biden’s unexpected announcement of the latest formula…
French healthcare shows there’s another way for the NHS
Nigel Farage says the NHS ‘isn’t working’ and has suggested the UK adopt a French-style heathcare system. He’s evidently been…
Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto
I’d say that Nigel Farage gave the best performance in last night’s debate. You might expect that: he’s a full-time…
Why was George Orwell a socialist?
When George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, read the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four in December 1948 he wrote a rapturous report to his…
The troubling truth about the Greens
Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party…
Can a government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?
The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business. It is launching a…
A short history of cricket in Ukraine
Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s cold-blooded invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the stories and images being broadcast from the…
Nigel Farage will be disappointed by his BBC debate performance
It had been called the dinner party from hell. A seven-strong convention of the also rans. But only one dinner…
Mordaunt’s debate strategy was to pretend Farage wasn’t there
How is it possible that a seven-way debate between the main parties in this election was more civilised than the…
Farage has taken his D-Day attack on Sunak too far
It didn’t take long for Nigel Farage to record the inevitable attack video. ‘Rishi Sunak pops into Normandy but omits…
Watch: Galloway blasts ‘believers’ who support Labour
Oh dear. While Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struggles to fend off criticism about leaving Thursday’s D-day commemorations early, another party…
Sunak is out of touch, and always has been
Rishi Sunak says it was a ‘mistake’ to leave the 80th anniversary commemorations for D-Day early. That’s one way to…
Why are Europe’s progressives often intolerant?
For Robert Fico it was a bullet, for Nigel Farage it was a milkshake. The targeting of both men demonstrates the…
