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Jenny Boyd goes beyond the muse
The beautiful muse to great male artists is a tricky figure, omnipresent in history but a bad fit for our…
Albanian small boat arrivals fall 99 per cent
With the return of Tory psychodrama and the leak of CCHQ lockdown party videos, Rishi Sunak needs something to go…
Britain’s war in Malaya
On 17 June 1948, seventy-five years ago this weekend, the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee declared war on the ethnic…
Is Isis preparing to exploit Europe’s open borders?
There is a growing sense of unease in France that a new wave of Islamist terrorism will soon break over…
Is the war on ultra-processed foods justified?
Ultra-processed food is back under the spotlight. ‘In the last decade, the evidence has been slowly growing that ultra-processed food…
Brits have a troubling approach to death
You never forget your first corpse, do you? Cold, visceral, mute, lying there immune from the world and its cares.…
Spotify exec: Harry and Meghan are ‘grifters’
It seems the Americans are belatedly waking up to the reality of the Sussexes. Bill Simmons, Spotify’s head of podcast innovation…
Keir Starmer has let slip the truth about his plan to abolish the Lords
Can a political leader keep getting exposed for conveying obvious untruths and yet be judged a fit person to occupy…
What’s behind Germany’s far-right surge?
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Germany’s far-right populist party, is enjoying a surge in support. A poll by broadcaster ARD this…
Emmanuel Macron must get over his Aukus sulk – before it’s too late
When the Aukus trilateral security pact was signed between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom in September 2021,…
The West could pay a heavy price for the Taliban’s war on drugs
The meth and heroin addicts were still gathering in their hundreds in a squalid encampment under the Pul-e-Sokhta bridge in…
When will the Department for Education get a grip on its transgender guidance?
Who’s running the show on trans and gender? Elected ministers? Or an activist civil service? A publication put out by…
Why Boris’s critics might regret celebrating his downfall
Imagine a Tory prime minister who gave the liberal left almost everything that it wanted. Higher migration? Sure, let’s treble…
Boris’s big column backfires
Boris! Boris! Boris! For a week now, the cry has been incessant among our national media. Liberated from his parliamentary…
Is this Wickes’s Gerald Ratner moment?
Big businesses are increasingly torn between activist leadership and a customer base that just wants to stump up its cash…
Biden’s age and Trump’s legal problems are inescapable
For all the vagaries of presidential contests, we know two things about 2024: Joe Biden’s age and Donald Trump’s legal…
Did France invent cricket?
As the First Ashes Test begins at Edgbaston it is fitting to recall England’s oldest cricket adversary: France. The Marylebone…
Full list: how will Tory MPs vote on the partygate report?
On Monday, MPs will get the chance to debate and vote on the Privileges Committee report on Boris Johnson. This…
Readers of Ulysses have a right to be smug
Happy Bloomsday everybody. Today, 16 June, is the day on which the events of James Joyce’s epic novel, Ulysses, is set…
Is France finally changing its tune on Brexit?
The waiters can sometimes be a little surly. That holiday villa you booked in the Loire may not always be…
Even Spotify has tired of Meghan and Harry’s repetitive schtick
As Oscar Wilde said of the death of Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not…
Boris gets a Mail column
It’s bad news for Rishi Sunak on the front page of the Daily Mail. No, not the splash about a…
I’m backing RFK Jr.
In the spring of 2021, I was barred from attending the remainder of my graduate school program at NYU for…
Why Biden 2024 is no sure bet
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not an intimidating political opponent. Or at least not on the surface. Yes, he is…
A guide to Basel’s artistic delights
Standing on the quayside beside the River Rhine, gazing at the happy teenagers swimming in the dark water down below,…
