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His eulogy at Diana’s funeral was electrifying. As her brother, Earl Spencer, stared down at the Royal Family, vowing to protect Diana’s sons and...
This summer, I have been to five “sports days” run by friends in their thirties. We’ve had all the races – egg and spoon, three-legged, sack...
An early election is an idea that will not die, no matter how many times Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his team try to quash it. Burnham is...
“I heard you missed me,” Melania Trump teased last night at her first public outing in a month since the World Cup final. “Here I am.” Timing...
If you had come round to our house at any time in the last 10 years, you wouldn’t need to be told that we had two sons. You’d have guessed...
Although it was all my own fault, I couldn’t help but stand there and curse Michael O’Leary. I am not a regular user of his airline, Ryanair, and...
One thing the Harry and Meghan saga will never be short of is plot twists. So news that the first couple of Montecito will soon rock up to re-bond...
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,...
Freedom of speech is a product of confidence. It is embraced by confident cultures, confident institutions and confident people. This helps explain...
It takes a village to raise a child – a proverb attributed to some African cultures – inspires people who believe in communal responsibility in...
Everybody knows that there is a lot of pressure on Andy Burnham, whose honeymoon period as Prime Minister must surely be at least approaching the...
Andy Burnham has had a lucky escape. The new UK Prime Minister believed he was exchanging messages with Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff...
To start the week, here is a quick-fire question and answer quiz. Q. How many data centres have been built in the UK this century? A. 450. Q. How many...
You would be forgiven for thinking that the Conservatives and Reform UK now agree on something. If one looks past the different tactics – with the...
If the war in Ukraine has been a back-burner issue in a summer dominated by the US-Iran war and a blithe new resident in No 10, the coming weeks will...
The word is that Prince Harry is planning to make more frequent trips back to the UK. He wants more of a foothold here and less drama. It’s a novel...
To celebrate 50 years of independence from Britain, the kingdom of Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini in 2018. I had to look up the tiny nation on...
Have you ever tried dating in a British heatwave? Well don’t. Just don’t. It is grim and clammy out here, take it from a woman who has tried. If...
Nigel Farage is a diva. His vanities make other politicians look pallid and small. Fortunately for him, mainstream and alternative media journalists...
This is Dispatches, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper normally written by Patrick Cockburn. While Patrick is away, former BBC foreign...
Nigel Farage has properly lost his touch. Once upon a time, he’d have known how to play this. He’d have gone along with the joke, turned up...
In common with thousands of adults up and down the country, my phone pinged at just after eight this morning. It was my honorary god-daughter who had...
Something very strange starts to happen to a woman in her forties – and I imagine in her fifties, sixties, and beyond: she enters her sexy older...
Somewhere inside Zia Yusuf, there’s a competent politician trying to get out. The Reform UK home affairs spokesman is well-dressed, relatively...
It’s Eid and I’m sitting at the dinner table. My parents have rustled up a feast and I’m in complete denial about how much ghee has gone into...
I don’t remember where I learned that you’re not supposed to blow your own trumpet. Unlike most rote manners that are drilled into children you...
In what circumstances might you expect a violent mob to congregate outside your home, hurling bricks at your windows and attacking police officers...
Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American...
In the summer of 2020, when the world was emerging from the hardships of Covid and we needed to get back into the habit of enjoying ourselves,...
Andy Burnham’s summer tour of the United Kingdom, which begins this week, has two goals. The first is presentational. Leaders only have limited time...
“I can’t bear to read it,” Diana, the Princess of Wales, told me. “The headlines are bad enough.” We were in Tokyo where Diana was on tour....
One perk of being the president of the United States is that you almost never need to be unpleasantly surprised. The largest and most powerful...
The Kemi Badenoch bandwagon crashed into political reality last week. For several months, Conservative cheerleaders have pushed a narrative that their...
Spend a day in Newquay, like I have, during the Boardmasters Festival week and you soon hear the complaints. The roads are jammed – although they...
The publication of Great and Unfortunate Things, a book title with sonorous undertones, is scheduled to go ahead imminently. After all, Simon and...
I love pubs. I am, like my dad, a pub person. This is a state of mind, not a measure of alcoholism. I love specific pubs – my local, the ones I...
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....
No-Longer-Prince Andrew is still in line for a ceremonial funeral despite his disgrace – that is, according to newly revealed government plans,...
There’s a phrase I’ve found myself saying more and more lately: “I just can’t be bothered.” It isn’t because I’m unhappy or because...
Donald Trump has been musing on the prospect of defeat at the midterm elections. Interviewed by Punchbowl News, he admitted: “I think we are going...
When I tell people I have barely cooked in the last year, it is as if I’ve let them in on a dirty secret like not washing my bedsheets. They look...
When I was a child I was led to believe that great diabolical temptation, “smoking”, would present itself to me, serpentine, hanging around a...
Andy Burnham’s better half is my kind of woman. Marie-France van Heel is bright, independent and has her own career and interests. You won’t see...
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to allow a former (albeit reformed) neo-Nazi to stand as a Conservative councillor hasn’t just raised...
David Olusoga is brave and brilliant. His tomes on black Britons through the ages and programmes on Empire made public truths which most previous...
One of the great mysteries of the universe is how Kemi Badenoch wins such positive reviews. If you read most commentary about her, you’d be forgiven...
Andrea Rizzi, a journalist with Spain’s El Pais newspaper, put it best. The global right wing, he wrote as footage of thousands of migrants arriving...
Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American...
Of all the characteristics that defined Rod Liddle, none was as befitting as his devoted support of Millwall FC, whose anthem, sung loudly and...
The welfare bill is big and getting bigger. We now spend over £330bn a year on all forms of welfare combined. For the last 13 years, welfare spending...
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