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We're in danger of forgetting the Holocaust

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Angela Epstein

How Australia's teens are dodging the social media ban

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David Werdiger

Good spirits / Let’s bring back elevenses

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Alec Marsh

Podcasts / The rise and fall of the football presenter

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Angus Colwell

Exhibitions / Does Tate’s director care about art?

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Digby Warde-Aldam

The West will regret not intervening in Iran

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Mani Basharzad

Cold blood / The Kremlin’s plan to create a new wave of Ukrainian refugees

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Owen Matthews

Kindly doom / Britain’s fatal good manners

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Sean Thomas

Does Europe still have an ally in America?

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Lisa Haseldine

Politics / Jenrick's treachery has made Badenoch stronger

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Robin Ashenden

Naked truth / Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?

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Julie Burchill

Poll: public back Badenoch's sacking of Jenrick

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Steerpike

Starmer’s war on pubs shows he was never serious about growth

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Rory Hanrahan

Davos's Iran invite is a new low

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Stephen Pollard

Is Prince Harry ready for his privacy trial showdown?

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Alexander Larman

Far from all Americans support Trump's advance on Greenland

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Jacob Heilbrunn

Is there method in Donald Trump's madness?

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Sam Leith

The secret costs of net zero

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James Graham

Keir Starmer chooses jaw jaw over trade war with Trump

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James Heale

Tories purge the Jenrickites

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Steerpike

The second coming of Gordon Brown

At a Christmas party I witnessed a showdown between two Labour movers and shakers, one a devoted Starmerite, the other an unrepentant Blairite,...

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Tim Shipman

Sick man of Europe / Can Germany be saved from itself?

Sick man of Europe / Can Germany be saved from itself?

Nine months into the chancellorship of Friedrich Merz, the outlook for Germany looks grim. The country’s economy, the world’s third biggest, has...

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Leon Mangasarian

First dibs / The truth about Britain's claim to Greenland

First dibs / The truth about Britain's claim to Greenland

Every time Donald Trump repeats his threats towards Greenland, a familiar claim does the rounds that the UK has ‘first dibs’ should Denmark ever...

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Patrick Gibbons

Scotland / Malcolm Offord must improve

Scotland / Malcolm Offord must improve

The biggest beneficiary of Robert Jenrick’s defenestration and defection was neither Kemi Badenoch nor Nigel Farage but Malcolm Offord. He is the...

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Stephen Daisley

The truth about Britain's claim to Greenland

The truth about Britain's claim to Greenland

Every time Donald Trump repeats his threats towards Greenland, a familiar claim does the rounds that the UK has ‘first dibs’ should Denmark ever...

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Patrick Gibbons

Army life / The truth about Sandhurst

Army life / The truth about Sandhurst

My friends were baffled. Why, at the age of 30, was I going back to school? And, worse, to an institution where your days are longer, your freedoms...

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James Vitali

These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland

These tariffs aren’t just about Greenland

During his visit to Washington, DC, on Wednesday, the Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said that he had a “frank but also constructive”...

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Freddy Gray

Are more fathers about to lose access to their children?

Are more fathers about to lose access to their children?

It takes a strong stomach to confront the details of the way in which Claire Throssell’s two sons – Paul, nine, and Jack, 12 – were killed by their...

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Melanie Mcdonagh

Can Arteta hold his nerve?

Can Arteta hold his nerve?

The second half of the Premier League season is brimming with stories and subplots. Hundreds of players are hoping to secure places in their...

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Mike Jakeman

Can Germany be saved from itself?

Can Germany be saved from itself?

Nine months into the chancellorship of Friedrich Merz, the outlook for Germany looks grim. The country’s economy, the world’s third biggest, has...

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Leon Mangasarian

Why young Danes are still having sex

Gen Z, as is well known, is having significantly less sex than their parents. They also drink less, smoke less, and have fewer close friends. The...

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Felice Basboll

New York, I love you, but I need to get home

New York, I love you, but I need to get home

I reached New York for the premiere of the fourth series of Industry in a mild state of delirium. I was travelling from Lamu, and it had taken four...

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Mickey Down

The truth about Sandhurst

The truth about Sandhurst

My friends were baffled. Why, at the age of 30, was I going back to school? And, worse, to an institution where your days are longer, your freedoms...

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James Vitali

Football / Can Arteta hold his nerve?

Football / Can Arteta hold his nerve?

The second half of the Premier League season is brimming with stories and subplots. Hundreds of players are hoping to secure places in their...

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Mike Jakeman

Sunday shows round-up: Tice says ‘Robert [Jenrick] is a great new asset to Reform’

Sunday shows round-up: Tice says ‘Robert [Jenrick] is a great new asset to Reform’

Lisa Nandy: The future of Greenland is ‘for the people of Greenland’ President Trump has escalated his rhetoric over Greenland, threatening NATO...

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Joe Bedell-Brill

Andrew Rosindell defects to Reform

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James Heale

The many faces of Houston

The many faces of Houston

If Greta Thunberg ever docked in Houston, it wouldn’t be for long. Freeways stretch to 26 lanes, flaring oil refineries light the night sky and...

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Lukas Degutis

Fare fiction / The great rail ticket swindle

Fare fiction / The great rail ticket swindle

Normally rail ticket prices are raised in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 3 per cent. This January, unusually, they didn’t increase....

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Ross Clark

Keir Starmer is a populist who is bad at populism

Keir Starmer is a populist who is bad at populism

For all his problems, Keir Starmer has never been a victim of high expectations. When he entered Downing Street in 2024, voters did not throng the...

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Ian Leslie

The rebellion will have a craft stall

The rebellion will have a craft stall

A new party has entered UK politics. Take Back Power seeks to ‘tax the rich and fix Britain’ and they’re planning a revolution that will replace...

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Lloyd Evans

The great rail ticket swindle

The great rail ticket swindle

Normally rail ticket prices are raised in line with the Retail Prices Index (RPI) plus 3 per cent. This January, unusually, they didn’t increase....

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Ross Clark

Marine Le Pen is unstoppable

Marine Le Pen is unstoppable

Marine Le Pen returned to court this week to contest her conviction last spring for misusing EU funds. Convicted of diverting more than €4 million...

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Gavin Mortimer

Why England's Ashes defeat is so painful

Why England's Ashes defeat is so painful

England’s most successful Ashes series Down Under for 15 years has somehow come to be seen as its most calamitous. England won a Test match, and...

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Daniel Norcross

Child gangs are menacing Europe

Child gangs are menacing Europe

Criminal networks are recruiting and tasking minors as paid operatives for shootings, bombings and contract killings. Europol, the law enforcement...

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Kevin Cohen

Andy Burnham joins Hillsborough revolt

Andy Burnham joins Hillsborough revolt

Can Keir Starmer get anything right? Just days after yet another U-turn on digital ID, it now seems that his flagship ‘Hillsborough law’ will...

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Steerpike

Badenoch backs Starmer on Greenland

Badenoch backs Starmer on Greenland

Leave it to Donald Trump to knock Robert Jenrick off the news cycle. The US President has not taken too kindly to the European contigent sent to...

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Steerpike

Malcolm Offord must improve

Malcolm Offord must improve

The biggest beneficiary of Robert Jenrick’s defenestration and defection was neither Kemi Badenoch nor Nigel Farage but Malcolm Offord. He is the...

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Stephen Daisley

Trump applies tariffs to Britain over Greenland

Trump applies tariffs to Britain over Greenland

Donald Trump has announced that he will impose tariffs on goods from the UK, Denmark and other European countries. The 10 per cent levies on...

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Michael Simmons

What does loyalty mean in politics?

What does loyalty mean in politics?

For David Cameron, there were two types of politician. Team players. Or tossers. Although he preferred a slightly saltier description for the...

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Michael Gove

British people still hate the nanny state

British people still hate the nanny state

In recent years a popular assumption has arisen in Britain that we are a nation of ‘curtain twitchers’ with an affinity for petty authoritarianism....

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Felix Hardinge