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This may be more suited to a confessional than a newspaper column but I have a fascination with Kemi Badenoch that is becoming faintly absurd. As...
It is a great relief that I entered the job market before the term “personal brand” had entered common parlance, because God only knows who I’d...
The United States Air Force has suddenly withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, amid claims that the Americans are concerned about...
Like a jack-in-the-box on steroids, he refuses to lie down. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has popped up again – this time declaring war on Thames...
To find joy in someone’s misery is not a good or admirable thing. But, viewed in a certain light, Bernadine Bluntly’s story offers much of it. For...
Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....
Something strange keeps happening to me. I’ll be at a party chatting to a successful woman – say, a doctor or businesswoman – and upon...
At a time when it is hard to get people to agree on barely anything, here’s a truism we can all sign up to: good manners cost nothing. You may think...
The US President has cleared his White House diary to concentrate on the midterm elections. Trump regards himself as “the closer”, the guy who can...
This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...
Not so long ago Nigel Farage was riding high in the opinion polls and blithely picking out new curtains and cushions for No 10. But despite this...
Welcome to The Fight for the Right, The i Paper’s new opinion series exploring the ideas, personalities and parties battling to shape the right of...
For us Manchester City fans, it was a little glimmer of light in what have been irredeemably dark days. Andy Burnham, with the applause of the Labour...
In December I will be 77 years old. The end comes closer. I have age-related ailments – small stuff triggers unreasonable reactions and I often feel...
It’s not quite “I told you so”, but Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been proved at least partially right about the paparazzi’s interest in her...
It’s conference time, and this year the Labour Party is flogging hope to its supporters. Not just hope, but “hope again” – a crafty bit of...
The traditional middle-class taboo against signing on for welfare is breaking down. It’s not long ago that claiming all sorts of benefits, even if...
“I know what I saw. And I know how I felt.” This was Noel Gallagher’s poetic response to the news that his club, my club – the club that...
It’s all change at Labour’s party conference in Liverpool. The mood is positive and, in an incredibly rare turn of events for contemporary British...
Labour is caught between sunny aspiration and cold reality. All around the conference centre in Liverpool are banners with the party’s slogan: Hope...
There are certain conversations families avoid until they are forced to have them. Death is one, funerals are another, and lasting power of attorney...
Earlier this month, I went for a day’s diving in Thailand. Obviously, it is the time spent beneath the waves that draws me to this beautiful...
Who broke Britain? Welcome to The i Paper’s opinion series in which experts and writers debate the issues that concern them about modern Britain....
Andy Burnham’s first party conference as leader has vast hoardings emblazoned with a “Hope Again” motto. It has second-marriage undertones –...
When Donald Trump took to the stage at the UN General Assembly last week, he had a seemingly endless list of the USA’s triumphs to show off to the...
This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox,...
Charles Spencer represents all that I detest in our class-riven country. An aristocrat, raised to believe he is better than us commoners; a serial...
Call me old-fashioned but few things strike me as more compelling evidence of a genuine love for a country than, well, living in it. Euromillions...
What “common ground” could Andy Burnham possibly have with Donald Trump? As well as the two men having markedly different politics, the US...
A former mentor of mine, an uncompromising newspaper editor of the old school, once told me that he could tell whether a job applicant was going to be...
Who are we to believe, as this monumental row, ignited by Earl Spencer’s hard-hitting book about his sister, Diana Princess of Wales, rumbles on? In...
Rolling our eyes is a very British reaction to Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s latest comments about Britain’s taxes and decline. A billionaire tax exile in...
Tuesday afternoon might well rank as one of the riskiest moments of Andy Burnham’s so-far sunlit premiership. He will sit down at the UN...
I wonder what Chris Martin will have been thinking this week as he watched Ed Sheeran bury himself in the worst PR disaster of his career – and...
Bo French is a Republican politician running for election to an obscure regulatory body called the Texas Railroad Commission. He was a nobody until...
This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every...
What motivated Earl Spencer to level accusations at an elderly King Charles, nearly 30 years after the tragic death of Princess Diana? This is a tale...
As if his old-school views on women, marriage and family weren’t bad enough, the Vice President of the United States has just revealed he likes a TV...
Nigel Farage and Reform UK seemed unstoppable. The party was inexorably building mass support; the supreme leader was lavishly praised. Even...
“Rest assured we will forget her soon enough.” Words spoken by King Charles in the febrile days after the death of Princess Diana, according to...
“Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don’t criticizeWhat you can’t understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your command”...
The UK has a major leakage problem. A fifth of water supplies are lost to leaking pipes, and hot weather has increased the colossal waste of this...
This is Armchair Economics with Hamish McRae, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox,...
Piddington is apparently very proud of itself. It has voted to leave the UK, because it so detests the idea of living next to asylum seekers. “We...
The list of things Nigel Farage will do for money is long, unedifying and, in the week that we learned of £72m being donated to his party by a couple...
When the time comes to render a verdict on Donald Trump’s second presidency, there are plenty of crises that could damage his score. Having promised...
The Spey flowing out of the Highlands is Scotland’s most iconic salmon river on whose banks stand distilleries producing half of all Scotch whisky....
There are plenty of reasons why you might dislike the two huge donations announced by Reform UK over the weekend. Perhaps you fear the prospect of...
Little has changed. And yet, so much has changed. The latest Instagram glimpse into the world of the Sussexes once again offers snippets of a family...
John Healey is a man who enjoys a greasy spoon fry-up, but only if it comes with a large dollop of HP Sauce on the side. Over bacon and eggs, the...