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Russia's Ben Stiller ban is a sign of Putin's desperation
What do Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, the chairman of the BBC, Piers Morgan, and, er, me, have in common? The…
Truss’s appointments are ruffling Tory feathers
Liz Truss has started to appoint supporters of her leadership campaign rivals to ministerial positions, answering the demand (mostly from…
Is long Covid all in the mind?
What’s the link between long Covid and mental health? A study just published in the Journal of the American Medical…
Liz Truss should increase Universal Credit
Liz Truss’s plans for a two-year energy bill freeze, estimated to cost £100 billion, underscore three points. One, the incoming Prime…
Tory ministers shouldn’t fall for these purity tests
Liz Truss’s ministers had not even got their feet beneath the cabinet table before they were treated to a barrage…
Truss is in a stronger position than Thatcher – for now
People used to understand that they were ageing when they noticed police officers in their neighbourhood looking unfeasibly young. Given…
Putin's gas war endgame
What is the Kremlin’s gas war endgame? Based on the various statements from Gazprom, the foreign ministry, and Dmitry Peskov,…
Why Germany must pay war reparations to Poland
There are crimes that can never be fully forgiven, and can never be forgotten. Time does not absolve the perpetrator…
Bush is leading us to tragedy (2002)
It’s 20 years since the clamour for the invasion of Iraq was at its loudest. Boris Johnson, The Spectator’s then…
What does the new cabinet tell us about Truss?
”Loyalty’ remarked Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe is ‘the Tory party’s secret weapon.’ The near constant blue-on-blue attacks of the last six…
Ukraine turns the tables on Russia
Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has moved into a new phase, a very encouraging one for Ukraine and its western…
The horrifying truth about Liz Truss
Was it just me or was Liz Truss actually smirking during her statement outside Downing Street, the one littered with…
Full text: The PM's first speech on the steps of No. 10
Good afternoon. I have just accepted Her Majesty the Queen’s kind invitation to form a new government. Let me pay…
Boris Johnson was a terrible strongman
The ejection of Boris Johnson from Downing Street today proves that the UK has not gone the way of Donald…
The madness of Truss’s energy price cap
While Boris Johnson used his farewell speech to praise the ‘vital symmetry between government action and free market capitalist private…
Who's in and who's out of Truss's cabinet?
Liz Truss will kiss hands with the Queen today and become Britain’s 56th Prime Minister, with a number of Boris…
Meghan Markle’s self-centred psychobabble
Move over Liz Truss, the real leaders of our global future are in Manchester this week – not Westminster. The…
Meghan’s youth speech was all about her
The Duchess of Sussex has been busy. In the past fortnight Meghan has treated us to two new episodes of…
What Boris should do next
Just what do you do with the rest of your life if, aged 58, you have been prised out of…
Flashback: Truss calls for the monarchy's abolition
It’s Liz versus Liz today as the Queen prepares to kiss hands at Balmoral with Britain’s 56th Prime Minister. While…
The issue that will win or lose the election for Liz Truss
Nobody knows what they think about Liz Truss. Not literally nobody – those of us with a wholly unusual level…
The Harry ‘n’ Meghan circus shows no sign of coming to an end
It seemed fitting that, for her return to Britain, Meghan Markle was joined at the One Young World summit in…
Why don’t we put warnings on smartphones?
On a recent trip to Sainsbury’s, I was perplexed to find nothing where it should be. I’m used to things…
Get ready for Liz mania
Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…
The end of history
Read chronicles of ancient peasant life, or examine photographs taken a century ago. Behold castes, tortures, and endless annals of…
