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Labour’s exam reforms make some sense
In an address to 1,500 school and academy trust leaders, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson last week asked schools to stop…
Labour is doomed if it is blamed for price rises
It emerged over the weekend that Tesco might have to start putting up prices. So, we have learned over the…
Full list: how will the cabinet vote on assisted dying?
There are less than three weeks to go until MPs vote on Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying private members’…
JK Rowling blasts Alastair Campbell over women’s rights remarks
Has The Rest is Politics podcast peaked? Its hosts have certainly had a rather rocky ride of late – with…
The great flaw in the Human Rights Act
Our new government’s most closely-held commitment is to the primacy of human rights law. Shortly after taking office, Keir Starmer vowed…
Ukraine will be worried if Trump has called Putin
When Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Wednesday, one leader’s message of congratulation was conspicuously absent. It took…
Farage should have been allowed to lay a wreath on Sunday
There was a cranky call doing the rounds online last week suggesting veterans should turn their backs on Sir Keir…
Labour minister obfuscates over defence spend target
While Sir Keir Starmer is in France this Armistice Day to place wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe, the Prime…
Jamie Oliver shouldn’t have cowed to the Aboriginal offence-takers
The celebrity cook Jamie Oliver has a sideline as an author. Not all his books are about cooking and food:…
Germany and the politics of blame for the first world war
Wars begin and end in controversy. The war that ended 106 years ago today with the armistice of 11 November…
Why Britain should actually woo Trump
We went to Skye last year on a family holiday – an amazing island, beautiful scenery, so many great people.…
Peanut the squirrel shows Elon Musk is wrong about the mainstream media
Was it Peanut wot won it? One of the stranger and more incendiary aspects of the run-up to the recent…
Evangelicals have questions to answer over the John Smyth scandal
Justin Welby has said he considered resigning as Archbishop of Canterbury over the findings of the Makin Review into the…
Georgia is in an existential fight
Georgia is defined by its fight for survival. Lying in the shadow of Russia, Turkey and Iran, it has navigated…
What the First World War can teach us about the Third
It is our duty on Remembrance Sunday to honour the fallen. But to do justice to their sacrifice, we should…
The Royal Family must be careful with Kate
If this year’s Remembrance Sunday was unusually affecting, it was in large part due to the presence of both the…
Could Streeting’s smoking ban breach Brexit terms?
Labour ministers are very keen to be good Europeans. But could the cause of closer continental ties come at the…
Will Trump and Musk fall out over China?
Xi Jinping was quick with his congratulations, urging Donald Trump to ‘forge the right path for China and the United…
Why Trump made inroads in the Democrats’ urban strongholds
Cities never sleep, but neither does Donald J. Trump. That might explain why he managed to make inroads in the most…
The strange death of English literature
The interest in reading books and the appreciation of English literature is at a nadir. This week it was revealed…
Trump’s plan to make America safe again
Donald Trump’s critics like to paint his supporters as hardcore right-wingers. The truth is rather plainer: many of those who…
Elon Musk’s support for Donald Trump is a masterstroke
Elon Musk contributed huge sums of money. He campaigned relentlessly. And his social media network X provided a platform for…
Are the super rich really abandoning Britain?
With an urgency not always noted in plumbers, Charlie Mullins announced earlier this year that he was leaving the country,…
Inside the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal
Roz Adams is not a public figure. She is not on social media. Yet this hardworking rape crisis support worker…
How Javier Milei found $18 billion
When Domingo Cavallo implemented at the start of December 2001 a restriction on cash withdrawals, he unwittingly unleashed a month…
