Why Boris Johnson might escape a partygate punishment: After several months of anticipation, two contentious legal submissions from Lord Pannick KC and a bumper ...
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Nicola Sturgeon’s successor should be careful what they wish for: Can we be sure that whoever wins on Monday will still be leader for the Scottish parliament ...
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The remarkable prescience of Alexis de Tocqueville: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) produced what his biographer Hugh Brogan called ‘the greatest book ever ...
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Ofsted’s zealous overreach: Obviously it is not the fault of Ofsted that a headteacher, Ruth Perry, killed herself after her school, formerly rated ‘outstanding’ ...
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The high price of low interest rates: You’ll recall that I’ve railed for years against zero interest rates, which transplanted a cancerous marrow into the very ...
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Could the markets force Macron to back down on pension reforms?: Is Emmanuel Macron reaching his Liz Truss moment when financial markets finally determine his ...
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What I’ve learned from a lifetime of travelling: In the language of the Mapuche people of Patagonia, futa (I’m told) means ‘river’ and leufú means ‘big’ ...
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The joke is on America: I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president had turned up in Latin America and ...
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Childcare: an inconvenient truth: Wyndham Lewis once said that ‘the ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season’ – but that, of course ...
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The killer next door: growing up in the murder capital of Wales: It was about this time last year when I stopped receiving the daily messages. At first ...
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Starmer wants to steal crime from the Tories: It’s tempting to see Keir Starmer as a political wind-up merchant given the number of times he likes to quote ...
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Why is Sadiq Khan giving the Met police Ulez camera footage?: Sadiq Khan was quick out of the blocks to join the condemnation of the Met Police following the ...
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Will the interest rate hike be enough to tame inflation?: There was no easy option for the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) this week ...
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Why No. 10 fears Boris’s banishment: Even now, months after he was forced to resign, Boris Johnson has a potency that no other British politician can match ...
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The secrets of Highgate Cemetery: Things are hotting up at Highgate Cemetery. Or they’ll need to if the grander tombs are to survive ...
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ChatCCP: how will China cope with AI?: The Chinese Communist party faces a conundrum: it wants to lead the world in artificial intelligence and yet it is ...
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The decline and fall of the DUP: Along with death and taxes, life has only one other certainty: the DUP will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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Starmer squirms over foreign criminals: ‘Too clever by half’ was the verdict of many pundits when it was revealed that Sir Keir had been tapping up Sue Gray as ...
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The mild-mannered economist who could end Erdogan’s rule: In modern Turkey, as in ancient Byzantium, the factions and passions of the stadium crowds are a key ...
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The ebb and flow of life on a houseboat: In the spring of 2021 I took a man to a pub in Hackney and bought him a drink. Perhaps he should have been doing the ...
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My search for alien life: The James Webb space telescope, the most powerful telescope ever built, has gathered some extraordinary images since it was launched by ...
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Ron DeSantis is coming for Trump: Donald Trump faces legal jeopardy about payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, but his Republican opponents face political ...
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Should the SNP leadership contest be stopped?: Yesterday saw the final televised debate between the three contenders for leader of the SNP and First Minister of ...
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How to lose friends and ghost people: In Elizabeth Day’s new book about the fragility of friendships, annoyingly but memorably entitled Friendaholic ...
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Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown: ‘There was this guy in my year who never came back to school after lockdown ...
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Letters: The dangers of certainty: Uncertain times Sir: Kate Andrews’s article on the era of economic certainty (‘Crash test’, 18 March) is not the first article ...
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A nose of wet chihuahua: the rich vocabulary of wine: Some decades ago, there was a Tory MP called John Stokes: eventually, and deservedly, Sir John ...
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How healthy do we think we are?: Beyond a joke Is it time to rewrite an old joke? A letter published in Time in 1963 suggested that heaven would consist of ...
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Jonathan Portes – my part in his downfall: In 2018, the Equality and Human Rights Commission commissioned and promoted a report which predicted that an extra 1 ...
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Rishi Sunak was wrong to publish his tax returns: In truth, there were not a lot of surprises when the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak published his tax returns on ...
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How the ancient Greeks defined citizenship: In the ancient world, where life was insecure and refugees and asylum seekers not uncommon ...
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Musicals are killing theatre: This has been an agonising time for those of us who love Julian Sands. On 13 January, he went for a one-day hike up Mount Baldy ...
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The trial of Boris Johnson: Boris Johnson sat through a grueling four-hour hearing into whether the former Prime Minister deliberately misled parliament ...
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Portrait of the week: Boris on trial, SNP in crisis and Rupert Murdoch’s fifth marriage
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The Fed’s rate rise shows it is confident about the banks: So, things really are different this time. The US Federal Reserve has decided to raise its Federal ...
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Five things we learned from Boris’s Privileges Committee grilling: Boris Johnson has just finished a mammoth three hour evidence session in front of the ...
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🎥 The trial of Boris Johnson: innocent or guilty?
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Russian missiles suggest Putin isn’t interested in a ‘peace plan’: On Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Moscow, Vladimir Putin suggested that China’s peace plan could ...
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The art of eating alone: To some, the phrase ‘table for one, please’ is among the saddest in the English language. Perhaps this isn’t a surprise; the concept of ...
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The biography Noël Coward deserves: ‘In the prison of his days,’ W.H. Auden wrote, ‘teach the free man how to praise.’ Noël Coward’s last performance, possessing ...
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Rishi publishes his six-figure tax bill: It’s a good day to bury bad news. After months of stalling, No. 10 have chosen today of all days to publish Rishi ...
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Watch: Steve Baker blasts Boris as ‘a pound shop Farage’: It’s all getting a bit spicy in Westminster. Barely an hour after Boris Johnson and Liz Truss announced ...
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PMQs proved that we have too many politicians: PMQs drove up a cul-de-sac today. Sir Keir’s team of researchers have discovered a crime blackspot where ten ...
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Why does everyone hate Max Reger?: The German composer Max Reger, born 150 years ago next week, is mostly remembered today for countless elephantine fugues and ...
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Barbie Kardashian and Ireland’s trans madness: Why are politicians so incapable of answering basic questions about biology? Yesterday it was Taoiseach Leo ...
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Sunak avoids large Tory rebellion on Brexit deal: Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework has won support in the House of Commons at 515 ayes to 29 noes. As expected ...
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Join The Spectator’s Fraser Nelson, Katy Balls and the Telegraph’s Camilla Tominey on 10 May in London as they discuss what the King’s coronation will mean ... Show more
When is a crime not a crime?: On Monday, Suella Braverman published draft guidance designed to rein in the police habit of recording a ‘non-crime hate incident’ ...
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Kugelhopf: a reassuring introduction to baking with yeast: Yeast scares even some of the most proficient cooks. I know home cooks and professionals alike ...
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My conversations with Wilfred Thesiger: When Wilfred Thesiger arrived in the port of Al Mukalla after his foot crossing of the Empty Quarter desert with the Bedu ...
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The rise of the village poo-painters: After they banned horses from the village green and surrounding common land, I set about trying to find out why ...
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The curious pronunciation of ‘East Palestine’: ‘The Royal Pavilion in Brighton is a palace on a Steine,’ said my husband in a dislocated response to learning ...
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Is Alastair Campbell a conspiracy theorist?: The king of spin is at it again. Fresh from bailing out his boss Gary Lineker from another self-imposed Twitter mess ...
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How to break your leg in style: Gstaad Tom Sizemore, the American character actor who recently died near-penniless at 61, was one hell of a thespian ...
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Crash test: the new era of economic uncertainty: Why did nobody see it coming? When the late Queen asked this question about the crash of 2008 ...
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After his trip to Moscow, Xi Jinping still holds all the cards: After his arrival in Moscow on Monday, President Xi Jinping said that China is ready ...
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The overlapping lives of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump: Often spoken of in the same breath, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are not in fact all that similar ...
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Is Humza Yousaf backing down against Westminster?: This is the first time that Yousaf has backed down from his position on the Section 35 order and therefore ...
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Victoria Smith: Hags: My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the writer Victoria Smith, whose new book Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women explains ...
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Why adults should read children’s books: During a recent family trip to South Africa, there was one book from my holiday reading pile that I simply couldn’t put ...
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The hidden charms of Montenegro: The first thing you should know about Montenegro is that it is wildly more dramatic than you might imagine ...
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Succession and the rise of ‘eat the rich’ entertainment: Farces, satires and straight slapstick comedies about extremely wealthy people have made popular ...
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What a gloriously easy living Chris Rock makes from his comedy: Chris Rock was paid $20 million for his 70-minute Netflix special, so by my reckoning his riff on ...
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The UK is right to refuse entry to a Quran-burning activist: Nobody came well out of the Quran-scuffing incident at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield last ...
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Why is inflation going back up?: For the past few months, the debate over inflation in Britain has centred around just how fast the rate might fall ...
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The police have used a ‘wokescreen’ to cover their racism and misogyny: Where to start, with a police force where decent behaviour seems to be the exception ...
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‘Myself and others became the wrong kinds of gay.’ Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe on where Stonewall is going wrong on trans rights 🎥 Watch the full ... Show more
Tbilisi is a tinderbox: Never judge a country by its airport road. Georgia’s, from international arrivals to the heart of Tbilisi, is impeccable. The George W ...
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Next SNP leader will double down on economic delusion: When it comes to the economic case for secession, all candidates will indulge in post-truth politics to ...
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What economic crisis comes next?: As we come to the end of an era in which money was practically free, the big question is what the fallout will be from rising ...
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How Britain can help keep the peace in Taiwan: During a recent trip to Taipei, I sat down with several retired Taiwanese national security officials to talk ...
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Unemployment and Britain’s missing million: There was plenty of miserable economic news in this week’s Budget: the highest taxes imposed by any peacetime ...
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Make Sex Wild Again: After 50 years, the figures are in: the pill’s effect on the delicate social ecology of sexual relations has been every bit as bad.
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A ripping production with plenty of laughs: Guys and Dolls, at the Bridge Theatre, reviewed
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How hardboiled detective fiction saved James Ellroy: Public readings by James Ellroy would tend to begin like this: Good evening, peepers, prowlers, pederasts ...
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