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UAE media deal hangs in the balance
The next three days could have major consequences for the British media landscape. On Monday, Ofcom will deliver its findings…
Pope Francis’s unhelpful Ukraine comments
Pope Francis has made a statement on the Ukraine war that has sparked fury among many of Kyiv’s supporters. Asked…
UCL is harming itself by pandering to China
We have suspected for some time that UK universities were supping with the devil when they relied on legions of…
Why is Macron suddenly pro-Ukraine? Fear of Le Pen
Its an old ruse to deploy foreign policy for domestic purposes. France has a long history in that vein. General…
Irish voters have refused to erase the family
It’s not been a particularly good weekend for the political establishment in Ireland. Two constitutional changes have been rejected by…
The remarkable story of my mother, the heroine of the Holocaust
I’ve always loathed Russia: its regime, its remnants of enduring Stalin-worship, its rulers’ century of malign influence on the world.…
Has BBC Verify done more harm than good?
As an increasingly jaded BBC hack, I reacted to the creation of BBC Verify last May with temple-rubbing despondency. The…
Do Spaniards have the right to eat in restaurants at midnight?
Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s deputy prime ministers, raised eyebrows during last summer’s election campaign when she arranged to be…
Inside the surprise effort to force TikTok’s divestiture
“I will kill you if you fucking shut down TikTok,” a teenage boy warned to a member of Congress in…
The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting
There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to…
How Germany became a security liability
There were lots of smiles and some awkward football banter when German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock met her British counterpart…
Only Nigel Farage can save us now
When the Prime Minister cannot be bothered to listen to the Budget it sends out a pretty big signal to…
Labour’s ‘equalities’ dystopia
With Sir Keir Starmer creeping closer to No. 10 every day, attention is rightly being paid to the radicalism of…
Russia will not attack Nato
There is a lot of war fever about. In January, Grant Shapps, Britain’s tiggerish defence secretary, said the UK was…
Lost friendships are a painful price of the Ukraine war
One thing you learn about war, if you are close enough for it to touch you, is that it splits…
Joe Biden and the war on truth
I had been told that Joe Biden, the president of the United States, would be delivering the 2024 State of…
Why Germans don’t want to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine
Yet again the question of whether to send arms to Ukraine is plaguing Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship. The issue was once…
Will Republican leaders apologise over ‘Stakeknife’?
‘Stakeknife’, a double agent who was an informant for the British Army while working within the innermost counsels of the…
Meghan Markle’s PR push
The Queen of Privacy is doing it again. After a brief hiatus from the spotlight, the Duchess of Sussex has…
Meet Portugal’s new hard-right kingmakers
Portugal goes to the polls this weekend for parliamentary elections and it looks likely to become the latest European country…
Britain’s adoration of the NHS is nothing to celebrate
‘The NHS is, rightly, the biggest reason most of us are proud to be British,’ Jeremy Hunt said in his…
Spanish soldiers have exposed the flaw in gender self-ID
Dozens of male Spanish soldiers have legally changed their gender, allegedly to claim benefits intended for women. In doing so, the soldiers have exposed the vacuity of Spain’s…
Will the NHS step count app get people back to work?
Is there really any point to the NHS app monitoring people’s step count? This is the latest announcement from Health…
What May’s departure reveals about the Tory party
The tributes are pouring in for Theresa May after the former prime minister announced that she will be stepping down…
Will Erdogan ever get to grips with Turkey’s sky-high inflation?
Inflation and the cost-of-living crisis dominates the agenda in Turkey, ahead of local elections at the end of March. Year-on-year…
