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Are the Australian election results a bad sign for the Tories?
Scott Morrison’s Liberals were absolutely thrashed in the Australian elections this weekend. The party’s vote collapsed, and there were big-name…
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard is a trial without a winner
War, partygate and inflation may dominate the headlines, but many Brits are fixated on something else: the defamation trial of…
Did monkeypox leak from Wuhan?
It’s a familiar story. Close contacts of individuals infected by a dangerous illness are being asked by UK officials to…
Does Twitter believe in free speech?
Would Donald Trump still be president if Twitter and Facebook had not prevented people from sharing the now-infamous New York…
Macron’s Renaissance rocked by sex abuse claims
Emmanuel Macron recently changed the name of his party from En Marche to Renaissance but so far all that has…
Biden's vow to defend Taiwan marks the end of Obama-era neutrality
Joe Biden will be flying back from his trip to Asia having made a big promise: that the US will…
Should a trans woman inherit a peerage over their older sister?
It’s House of Lords reform, Jim, but not as we know it. Matilda Simon has applied to contest the next…
Is Ukraine going to win?
The climactic battle for Ukraine is being fought in the east, on the dangerous, open terrain of the Donbas. Since…
How the West is helping Putin's propagandists
One might not think that J. R. R. Tolkien has much to do with the bitter war in Ukraine, but…
Is this the week Boris Johnson's luck finally runs out?
‘Is he lucky?’ Napoleon demanded to know of one of his generals. When Sue Gray’s partygate report is released in…
How Scott Morrison was defeated in Australia
‘Scott Morrison is empathetic – without the “em”.’ Those words, spoken on Friday by the Labor party frontbencher Jason Clare,…
Russia’s anti-Putin backlash is gathering strength
The backlash in Russia to Putin’s war is now visibly getting underway. For the first time, the President risks becoming…
Inside Russia’s military collapse in Ukraine
The Russian military has performed far worse in Ukraine than anyone could ever have predicted. After failing to take Kyiv,…
Will anyone watch a Harry and Meghan Netflix docuseries?
Picture the convivial scene. You have been invited into the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s palatial £11 million mansion in…
Idrissa Gueye and the problem with Pride
Is waving the Pride flag compulsory now? The Idrissa Gueye scandal suggests it might be. Footballer Gueye did not play…
Is this the return of football hooliganism?
Everton secured their Premier League safety last night, coming back from two goals down to bag a 3-2 victory against…
The age of American unexceptionalism
Our administration would have us believe that Joe Biden is the leader of the free world. But he isn’t —…
Is 'woke' real?
Woke is a strange phenomena, but what does it actually mean? Activists and columnists alike declare that being woke is…
What is Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another…
Who is David Sherborne, libel lawyer to the stars?
If you’re a celeb with a burning grievance, the hottest place in town is an unassuming, Georgian terraced house in…
Nigeria's Christians are under attack, but does the West care?
The scene is medieval in its horror: a woman stoned, beaten and set on fire by a mob shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.…
The madness of France’s burkini bust-up
To burkini, or not to burkini? This is the question that divides France in the run-up to the first round…
Why should Idrissa Gueye have to wear a rainbow shirt?
A row about rainbows has broken out in football. Paris St-Germain players wore brightly coloured numbers — a show of…
It’s only a culture war when the right does it
Having recently botched South African history, the New York Times is now turning its sights to Australia. Our friends Down…
BLM is dying but it’s legacy lives on
It can be hard to remember just how strange things were during the pandemic. Every day the front pages covered…
