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Despite a career of nearly half a century in public life, Enoch Powell is generally remembered for one utterance only: the so-called ‘Rivers of...
Some of the highest-paid sportsmen in history, the golfers of the LIV league, had bad news recently. Saudi Arabia said it was pulling out of LIV Golf...
It is an old adage of leadership contests that ‘If you shoot for the King, you’d better not miss’ – but no one expected the starting gun to be...
As all but the most tribal fruitcases would agree, Arsenal’s Declan Rice is an island of decency in the rather foetid river that is modern football....
You meet an eclectic bunch of people in the horse-racing business. Yet it was at prep school 55 years ago that I first met Simon Marsh, who is the...
Ireturned from a recent holiday to Morocco with three mementos: a bright red pair of swimming trunks (teenager-sized; the largest the supermarket...
‘It’s just a hot dog bun with icing!’ the iced-bun detractors will shriek. I’m a lady with a lot of opinions about fairly esoteric foodstuffs,...
Erev is an Israeli restaurant in Notting Hill, though Israeli restaurants do not call themselves Israeli nowadays. They have rebranded to Eastern...
Forget the detailed itinerary – a 12-day trip that included the vertiginous 2,446-metre Kotorma pass on horseback – the packing list alone ran to...
One of the traditions of the state opening of Parliament is that the Yeomen of the Guard search the cellars of the Palace of Westminster for evidence...
Like the rest of the King’s Speech, Keir Starmer’s address on the government’s legislative agenda had been prepared long before the turmoil in...
Yesterday was the news that Keir Starmer has agreed to have a face-to-face meeting with John Swinney, Scotland’s first minister, following the...
Donald Trump flew to Beijing this week, and when he sits down with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday morning he will want three things: a...
Nigel Farage has been on a well-deserved high after Reform pulled off a spectacular coup at the local elections. But could that all be about to come...
Wes Streeting is preparing to resign from the government and trigger a Labour leadership contest as soon as tomorrow. On Tuesday night, critics of...
This King’s Speech will live long in the memory: not for its contents, but for its context. The long-planned state opening of Parliament today was...
The first arrest of the weekend at Badminton Horse Trials occurred at 7:17 p.m. on Saturday. Fight, separation, removal, detention, escape, capture,...
The Labour party is pretty useless when it comes to getting rid of its leaders. That’s the only reason Keir Starmer is still squatting in Downing...
Pity Sir Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting. The embattled Prime Minister must get through a King’s Speech against the backdrop of the Labour Party...
It might seem odd, amid the domestic political crisis currently engulfing the Labour party, to turn one’s eyes to Chișinău, the capital of...
The British Army has long lived by a simple maxim: “Prior preparation and planning prevents piss poor performance.” It remains as true today as...
Reality Check verdict: false You know things are hotting up in Westminster when reporters start unironically using the word ‘febrile’. Today,...
Logic, sadly, points to one all-too-likely victor from the Labour leadership crisis: Ed Miliband. On the principle of ‘he who wields the sword never...
Rumour had it that the Falkland Islands were running out of food. There was panic, it was said, and people had forgotten what fresh food looked like....
This book got glowing reviews when it was published in the US a few months ago: ‘Irresistible’ (New York Times); ‘Riveting’ (Boston Globe);...
In the satirical print ‘Remarkable Characters at Mrs Cornely’s Masquerade’ from February 1771, the Georgian craze for dressing up as fantastical...
A lot of books, obviously depending on what mood you’re in and viewed from a certain angle, slantwise or squintlike, hover on the edge of...
In the satirical print ‘Remarkable Characters at Mrs Cornely’s Masquerade’ from February 1771, the Georgian craze for dressing up as fantastical...
A lot of books, obviously depending on what mood you’re in and viewed from a certain angle, slantwise or squintlike, hover on the edge of...
You will miss Sir Keir Starmer when he has gone. I hear you say that you will do no such thing. You think that Starmer has been a disaster. He was...
What does Monte Carlo conjure up? A glamorous casino where fortunes can be won and lost, but mostly lost? Men in evening dress at baccarat tables...
Moan all you like about Gen Z, but some of today’s youngsters put adults to shame. Take the pupils at Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone,...
Her name, let us say, is Mary Ann McCready. She is eleven-years-old when she first walks through the gate at six in the morning. The hooter has...
‘Congratulations! We’re delighted to inform you that you’ve made it through to the fifth stage.’ At this point,...
As President Trump travels to China today, his original plans for the visit have been upended. He wanted to arrive as a triumphant conqueror but...
Sir Keir Starmer remains dug in as Prime Minister, having told the cabinet: ‘Bring it on if you think you’re hard enough’. Most observers have...
What a lucky fellow Zack Polanski is, in that his little council tax issue has come to light on the day that Keir Starmer ought to – and yet still...
All three of the resignation letters from ministers who have quit government in the past couple of hours will be painful for Keir Starmer, but Jess...
Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For those unfamiliar, the play...
The government is on the brink of collapse, ministers are openly fighting for the succession, and the bond vigilantes are already driving up the cost...
As calls for Sir Keir Starmer’s head grow ever louder among Labour MPs, the Prime Minister is digging his heels in. He has one more card left to...
This morning’s cabinet meeting will be one for the ages. At 9.30 a.m. Keir Starmer will have been greeted by his senior ministers, almost all of...
It’s fair to say the reset speech didn’t quite do the trick. As the number of Labour MPs calling on the Prime Minister to step down steadily grows...
The outcome of the Prime Minister’s make-or-break speech yesterday morning was never really in any doubt, was it? It’s break. Did anybody except...
Let’s dispense with the obvious question first. Are they common? While there’s a clear temptation to consult Nicky Haslam on such matters, I...
It has been calving time in Devon and I arrive from London ready to work hard. The day starts at 6.30 a.m., when we check the field to see if any cows...
There’s a question I’ve started being asked at work. Given I’m a psychiatrist, it isn’t one I’d ever expected to hear: ‘Do I have...
Let’s dispense with the obvious question first. Are they common? While there’s a clear temptation to consult Nicky Haslam on such matters, I...
It has been calving time in Devon and I arrive from London ready to work hard. The day starts at 6.30 a.m., when we check the field to see if any cows...
As the Prime Minister’s reset speech seems to have failed to reassure Labour MPs, all eyes are once again on Andy Burnham. In fact, it seems we are...
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