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Putin is increasingly losing touch with reality
Trailed as an historic address to the nation following the weekend’s Wagner rebellion, Vladimir Putin’s short speech on Monday night was instead an…
Boris Johnson’s peculiar conservative conversion
In his most recent column for the Mail, Boris Johnson fires a shot at, among other things, ‘the leftie twittersphere’.…
What happened to QAnon?
“There’s a storm coming,” popular historian turned esoteric political commentator Neil Oliver posted on Twitter in May, “Maybe not today.…
What’s the true cost of the Rwanda deportation plan?
What’s the point of the government’s flagship Rwanda deportation scheme if it isn’t going to save money for the taxpayer?…
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin breaks his silence
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has released an 11-minute audio message after leading a march on…
‘Biden should own his old age’ and other bad Jeffrey Katzenberg ideas
Seventy-two-year-old entertainment mogul and campaign advisor Jeffrey Katzenberg has some sage advice for President Biden: eighty is the new sixty.…
Where did it all go wrong for Harry and Meghan?
Even for those of us who are not well disposed towards the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, it is hard…
The Bank can’t blame wages for out of control inflation
After a bruising week, perhaps Andrew Bailey could take some solace in Rishi Sunak’s interview with Laura Kuenssberg this weekend.…
A dispatch from the olive oil capital of the world
It was an extraordinary sight. For three days, and about seventy kilometers of hiking, there were just endless olive trees…
Why is it so difficult to find MPs who aren’t useless?
It’s a sign, possibly, of my increasing age and bad temper that I find myself harking back to an imaginary past in…
Why are killer whales attacking boats?
Orcas – killer whales no less – are on the attack. They have declared war on humanity. They are systematically…
Khan shells out £200k on grass
Breaking: Sadiq Khan is a big fan of grass – and not the kind you can decriminalise. The Mayor of…
Prigozhin offered a terrifying glimpse into Russia’s future
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion against the Russian military and political leadership may have stopped some 200 km short of Moscow, but…
Will Macron be forced to raise French taxes?
The inevitable is at last beginning to dawn on Emmanuel Macron. The extravagant spending spree initiated after the violent and…
What explains the remarkable rise of Germany’s AfD?
A common stereotype about Germans is that they love to complain – and there is certainly a kernel of truth to…
The invasion of the wheelie bins
Once I thought nothing could make residential Britain look uglier than pebble-dashing, PVC windows and satellite dishes. I was wrong. As…
The Wagner uprising has left Putin isolated
Both Vladimir Putin and the mercenary Wagner Group have been dramatically weakened by yesterday’s attempted coup. Wagner’s nominal leader, Yevgeny…
Prigozhin has made Putin more dangerous than ever
As rebel tanks trundled up the highway towards Moscow yesterday morning, Vladimir Putin labelled the mutinous mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin…
‘We’ve got to hold our nerve’: Rishi Sunak’s BBC interview
As mortgage rates surge and a new Opinium poll finds Labour’s lead has jumped to 18 points, Rishi Sunak appeared…
Why Pharrell Williams will make LVMH happy
Amid the dusk light, there’s hushed, excited chatter. And then drums, lights, and orchestral tones. It’s 10:18pm in Paris, and…
Did Putin’s allies flee Moscow?
As soon as the Wagner coup started, Ukrainian social media was full of memes of Vladimir Putin saying ‘I don’t…
Prigozhin’s bid for death or glory
Up until this point, it was possible to believe that Putin was tolerating, or even orchestrating Yevgeny Prigozhin’s increasingly outspoken…
Why Prigozhin rebelled
Civil war broke on Russia like a thunderstorm, replacing weeks of mounting political heat with a deluge of fire and…
A trophy hunting ban won’t save Africa’s wildlife
British rule over South Africa ended in 1910, but now parliament is busy with legislation that could have a devastating effect…
The self-delusion of ‘Bomber’ Harris
The scene in the German port was like a vision of hell. As the incendiary bombs rained down on Hamburg…
