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January 6 Committee turns Trump from predator to prey
With the January 6 Committee’s recommendation to the Justice Department last night to prosecute Donald Trump on four counts of…
Britain must address its anti-family tax system
Parenting – and indeed any talk of family life – has long been taboo in government. Nothing highlighted this more…
The January 6 Committee’s recommended charges against Trump, explained
The Select Committee to Investigate January 6 announced Monday that it would refer former president Donald Trump for charges to…
DC is officially clearing out its homeless tent cities
After years of neglect, it seems federal and city officials are finally removing the homeless encampments littered across Washington, DC.…
Japan’s rearmament could be a force for good
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s murdered former prime minister, would this week be especially proud of his country. At long last, and…
Kevin McCarthy’s party games
All that Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy wants for Christmas is the four votes he needs to hold the gavel as…
What we learned from the Qatar World Cup
It is a measure of the unexpected success of the Qatar World Cup that it could be hailed as the…
Can Jeremy Clarkson’s critics take a joke?
There is always a tipping point in Twitterstorms. A moment at which the digital hysteria over something somebody said becomes…
The High Court Rwanda ruling is a win for the Tories
Today’s High Court ruling that the government’s plan to send irregular migrants to Rwanda on a one-way ticket is lawful…
What the High Court ruling means for the Rwanda scheme
The government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful. That’s according to a ruling from the High Court…
Elon Musk’s weird weekend
He may have been racking up the hours at the office lately, but even Elon Musk knows when to take…
Do Harry and Meghan really think they’ve done nothing wrong?
Not for the first time, it was Jeremy Clarkson’s fault. The weekend news, which began with a forensic dissection of…
What adults don’t get about children’s books
Children’s writing has been having a bit of a moment over the past couple of weeks, after a conversation on social…
Macron’s World Cup loss is nothing compared with the problems he faces in France
One can only feel for Kylian Mbappé. If scoring a hat-trick in a World Cup final but ending up on the…
Harry, Meghan and the troubling erasure of Christmas
H and M – no, the other brand – are causing trouble again. ‘Sussexes send out Happy Woke-mas card to…
The Met Office isn’t to blame for possible blackouts
In the hierarchy of excuses for tipping Britain into a month of blackouts, ‘the Met Office didn’t say winter would…
Why Russia couldn’t give up on empire
One hundred years ago this December, delegations from the core nations of the East Slavs, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus signed the…
Why Argentina is the team we love to hate
With the prospect of Messi closing out his glorious career with the ultimate prize it’s likely most neutral fans will…
What the revisionists get wrong about America’s nuclear bombings
The use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki is hardly a festive subject. But given that in recent conversations…
What will Putin do next?
If you were Putin, what would you do? Predicting your adversary’s future moves requires putting yourself in his shoes. As…
How Dickens invented Christmas
Time was, the Christmas shopping season used to last a week or two. Now it drags on for months. Never…
Why we should take the Twitter Files seriously
‘Shadowbanning’, ‘visibility filtering’, ‘de-amplification’ – the Twitter Files released since Elon Musk took over have given us a new and sinister language…
When it comes to migrants, Britain needs to be more French
Rishi Sunak’s fighting talk as he launched the latest Tory crackdown on illegal Channel migrants this week, with the dramatic words…
Why are political failures like David Cameron so richly rewarded?
The news – reported in the FT Weekend – that former Prime Minister David Cameron is to teach a three-week course…
Nothing will ever be good enough for Harry and Meghan
Imagine you’ve paid good money to see a French farce – and halfway through, it turns into a Greek tragedy.…
