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Why trophy hunting could be key to saving Africa’s wildlife

13 May 2023 4:00 pm

The lion or elephant in the photo should be stone-cold dead. The hunter posing with it should be ugly, fat…

How Elon Musk turned Twitter into the post-TV Fox News

13 May 2023 12:11 pm

Elon Musk has decided it’s too much work for him to be the chief executive of Twitter, a fraying social…

How prisons teach inmates that crime pays

12 May 2023 11:53 pm

John Major is wrong when he suggests only violent offenders should be automatically locked up – and as a non-violent…

Prince Harry’s phone hacking muddle

12 May 2023 10:25 pm

Prince Harry is no stranger to demanding that everyone, everywhere should mind their own business and give him privacy –…

Shrinking GDP shows how stagnant the economy has become

12 May 2023 6:54 pm

The UK economy shrank by 0.3 per cent in March, as ongoing strike action continued to take its toll. But the fall…

Unrest is growing in Macron’s febrile France

12 May 2023 5:44 pm

Across Europe the numbers are soaring. In Britain, net migration figures are expected to near one million when the figures…

Forget the EU: Britain’s own red tape is strangling the economy

12 May 2023 4:30 pm

Ministers are considering scrapping the EU Working Time Directive. The news has been met with predictable howls from the usual…

CNN plays with fire again

12 May 2023 12:06 am

CNN’s decision to host a Donald Trump town hall turned out exactly as you might have expected: a horror show that…

Why interest rates continue to rise

11 May 2023 11:23 pm

The Bank of England has hiked interest rates again, taking the base rate from 4.25 per cent to 4.5 per…

What’s eating John Major?

11 May 2023 9:20 pm

Eighty-year old Sir John Major does not appear to be enjoying a peaceful retirement. Judging by his frequent tetchy interventions…

‘You are a nasty person’: Trump turns on moderator

11 May 2023 6:54 pm

Well, that was eventful. Fresh from being found guilty of sexual abuse, Donald Trump rocked up last night at a…

Russians live in fear of Putin’s dreaded draft

11 May 2023 5:59 pm

On 9 May, Russia’s wet squib this year of a Victory Day, president Putin addressed his beleaguered troops in Ukraine…

It would be foolish to rule out an Erdogan victory

11 May 2023 4:56 pm

With only a few days to go until Turkey’s election, the opposition continues to lead in most polls. But there…

Hunter Biden is running out of time

11 May 2023 6:44 am

We’ve come a long way in the two and a half years since the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were…

No, John Major: Britain doesn’t lock up too many prisoners

11 May 2023 4:33 am

While most of the country thinks we should be cracking down on crime, former prime minister Sir John Major has…

Justin Welby’s climate confusion

11 May 2023 3:47 am

It is widely expected that Justin Welby, having now screwed the crown on Charles III’s head, will shortly retire as…

Liz Cheney’s anti-Trump ad helps Trump

11 May 2023 2:23 am

There are two categories of people who most desperately want Donald Trump to be the Republican Party’s nominee in 2024:…

What the BBC gets wrong about Israel

11 May 2023 12:43 am

If you get your news on the Middle East from the BBC, every so often Israel appears to go mad…

Ukraine could lose one of its closest allies in Europe

10 May 2023 10:50 pm

Could one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies in Europe soon flip to become one of the most sceptical nations in the…

Macron remains in denial over Europe’s migrant crisis

10 May 2023 9:14 pm

Tuesday was ‘Europe Day’, or as the European Union proclaimed on its website, the occasion to ‘celebrate peace and unity’…

The troubling arrest of Imran Khan

10 May 2023 8:00 pm

The saga of Imran Khan’s political career rumbles on. While on his way to the High Court in Islamabad yesterday…

Does anyone think the sex abuse verdict will stop Donald Trump?

10 May 2023 7:49 pm

Can a man who has been found ‘civilly liable’ for sexual abuse in court be elected president of the United…

What’s the real reason police disrupted our anti-monarchy protest?

10 May 2023 6:52 pm

The Met Police has expressed ‘regret’ over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters on coronation day. Officers even apologised in…

The barbarity of Russia’s white phosphorus attack on Bakhmut

10 May 2023 5:09 pm

There is something oddly Christmassy about the scene: a night-time city bathed, festooned in twinkling white lights, the smoke around…

Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused author

10 May 2023 4:40 pm

A New York federal jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author E. Jean…