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Loving and tweaking the Long Island Iced Tea
Want to get drunk, fast? To most, that’s the point of the Long Island Iced Tea. It’s not so much…
The thoroughly underrated Pessac-Léognan
When someone says “Bordeaux wine” most of us think first of wines from the Médoc, home of Pauillac, Saint-Julien, Saint-Estèphe,…
Labour rent controls would be a disaster
‘Rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing,’ declared…
King Charles’s first official portrait is a triumph
The first official portrait of King Charles III since his coronation has been unveiled. Both the artist Jonathan Yeo and…
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…
Why are important Covid documents not being released?
The most important stories from the Covid Inquiry are found in the written evidence and submitted statements. However, the Cabinet…
The Normandy prisoner escape shines a light on France’s criminal underworld
‘Sometimes when we turn on the television we get the impression that nothing’s going well in France,’ Emmanuel Macron said…
Labour backbenchers snub immigration questions
Dear oh dear. Has all Labour’s tough talk on tackling immigration been purely for show? That’s how things appear after…
MPs demand a rethink on mental illness
Given so many people are suffering from some kind of mental distress at the moment, many of them out of…
Javier Milei is torn between the West and China
Javier Milei pledged to ‘make Argentina great again’ when he took to the stage in February at the CPAC meeting…
It would be ridiculous to clamp down on foreign students
Oh, the embarrassment. The government commissioned its own Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) to investigate whether graduate visas (which grant overseas…
Prince Harry’s memoir loses out on top awards
The renegade royal never manages to stay out of the news for long. Now the spotlight is back on Prince…
Rain is the biggest problem for Oxford’s Free Gaza protestors
Oxford students, like others, are protesting about Palestine, but not so much when it rains. There’s an encampment outside the…
Could Northern Ireland become a migrant sanctuary?
Yesterday, the High Court in Belfast dealt a blow to the government when it struck down several provisions in the…
Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation labelled ‘delinquent’
If there is one thing that Harry and Meghan excel at, it is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.…
Could a Trump conviction really change the presidential election?
The first time I heard the name ‘Michael Cohen’ was in 2015, from a Republican political operative who told me:…
Half of Scots want Hate Crime Act repealed
Back to Scotland, where hapless Humza Yousaf is still managing to cause the SNP problems even after his resignation. It’s…
Brits won’t stop getting pay rises
Are interest rates still heading ‘downwards’ as the Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said last week? Homeowners across the…
The EU has ruined plastic water bottles
Hurrah, the problem of plastic waste has been sorted – as of this summer all plastic water bottles sold in…
Farewell Nadhim Zahawi, you won’t be missed
Nadhim Zahawi’s latest resignation letter was one of the all-time classics of the genre: unctuous, preening and pretentious even by…
Is Andrei Belousov Russia’s Albert Speer?
President Vladimir Putin’s appointment of the civilian economist Andrei Belousov as Russia’s defence minister in the third year of the…
The NHS’s maternity care has always been a mess
The latest report on maternity care in the UK hasn’t told us anything new. The headline finding of the parliamentary…
Eating my way around Helsinki
Often asked about my favorite places to go, and moreover, favorite places to eat, I find myself talking about Helsinki.…
Catalonia has gone cold on independence
Is Catalonia’s independence movement dead in the water? Elections held in the region on Sunday reveal that support for separatist…
The horror of NHS maternity wards has been exposed
Will any woman who has given birth on the NHS be surprised by a damning report into maternity services? I wasn’t. I…
