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We’re finding out who really runs the BBC
The high-profile political activist Gary Lineker will not present Match of the Day tonight after he likened the rhetoric of the government to 1930s Germany.…
In defence of the supermarket
Supermarkets are once again back in the firing line. Henry Dimbleby, the Leon co-founder turned government food tsar, has blamed…
The BBC shouldn’t have taken Gary Lineker off air
The BBC’s decision to take Gary Lineker off the air is the sort of self-harming stupidity at which the Corporation excels. The…
Aukus is looking like a Nato for the Pacific
How big a deal is it that Australia has chosen a British design for its nuclear submarines rather than the…
The ignorance of Gary Lineker
When I was a girl, footballers had a somewhat limited vocabulary. That wasn’t to say that they were seen as…
Can Ukraine ever win over Crimea and the Donbas?
It’s a topic that few are willing to talk about, but at some point – and especially if it is…
Sunak needs more than Macron’s help to crack the Channel crisis
There was more than a whiff of ‘bromance’ between Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron when they met at the Anglo-French…
What the right gets wrong on illegal immigration
The government’s plans for the Illegal Migration Bill – which would see virtually all people arriving outside formal, legal channels…
The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup
So the cancel-culture set believes in free speech now? What a turnaround. People who have spent the past decade turning…
Wall Street wants Kamala. So do Republicans
Texas showdown Democratic congressman Colin Allred is mulling a run against Senator Ted Cruz, Cockburn has learned. No major Democratic…
The BBC’s nightmare hat-trick of blunders
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC press office has had a nightmare 24 hours, with not one but three…
Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data
Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via…
Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day
Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot…
GOP seeks answers from NBA over Chinese soft power display
House and Senate Republicans, along with a basketball star, are demanding answers from the NBA about its financial relationship with…
Ukraine can sympathise with Georgia’s pro-EU movement
Protests that broke out in Tbilisi against adopting a controversial Russian-style law have turned into a pro-European movement with political…
Will Sunak’s charm offensive with Macron yield results?
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron held a press conference together at the Élysée Palace today to mark their new deal…
Why Britain isn’t ready to rejoin the EU – yet
Is Brexit starting to unfold? Some Remain supporters think so. Poor economic performance, supply chain issues, and our inability as…
How Russia is dodging sanctions
They might not be the quick knock-out blow their champions misleadingly claimed they’d be, but sanctions are having a serious…
The problem with Boris’s honours list
There are plenty of Boris Johnson hangovers to give Rishi Sunak a headache these days. The privileges committee investigation into…
Ministers can’t blame Putin for the disaster that is HS2
And I thought the SNP were destined to win the award for this year’s most pathetic excuse – after Scottish…
GDP grows by 0.3% – but the UK economy remains stagnant
This morning’s release from the Office for National Statistics shows the UK economy grew by 0.3 per cent in January – an…
Can Macron get through the day without insulting the Brits?
The editorial in today’s Le Figaro heralds the dawn of a 21st century Entente Cordiale and the newspaper carries an interview…
Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on
“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…
Gary Lineker doubles down on his Tory attacks
No red card for Gary Lineker, it seems. The Sun reports this afternoon that the outspoken TV presenter is staying…
The rationale for Putin’s latest attack on Ukraine
It has long been suspected that Russia was going to mount a renewed military offensive in Ukraine as spring approached.…
