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The headline, now increasing in pitch, capital letters and exclamation marks, is that net migration is off the charts. It is soaring. It is at an...
The images of hostages and prisoners being reunited with their families are almost too hopeful to absorb. Even as Israeli authorities explicitly try...
“Hate marchers” who are not interested in Gaza, but in asserting “the primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”. This is how...
As the streets fill with ever-increasing numbers of pro-Palestine supporters – and with a large protest planned in central London next weekend –...
Cathy had voted Labour all her life. Then she heard an LBC interview with Keir Starmer. In it, he was asked if it was “appropriate” that Israel...
A few years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, when the country seemed like one that had buried its past of conflict for ever, I heard an...
T he cost of living crisis has been happening for so long now, it can no longer really be classed as a “crisis”. Crisis implies urgency,...
E ven by this government’s standards, last week was bleak and this one, as the Tory conference gets under way, promises to be no less dispiriting....
B eing single today is less a description of your relationship status and more an economic state. Of course, being single was never easy: couples can...
G irl Who Boys Can’t Hear was a recurring character who featured on The Fast Show. She is a woman in the company of men who raises an intelligent...
S pread over an area almost 7km (4 miles) long, Cairo’s Necropolis is a sprawling district of tombs, mausoleums, mosques and courtyards. Also known...
W e are used to the fact that Rishi Sunak only has two speeds: blandly repeating his five political “priorities” and dutifully affirming the...
A “coup belt” now extends across the African continent, running along the Sahel region that bisects north and sub-Saharan Africa. On 10 August,...
A n expiring Tory party lashing about for electoral resuscitation by doubling down on a small number of pugnacious policies. A Labour opposition that...
A surreal video filmed by a tourist in “the most perfect location in Greece” last week, posted to show how “a weekend trip turned into survival...
J ane is a junior doctor working several extra locum shifts to make ends meet. Burnt out after the pandemic, and struggling with her physical and...
I apologise in advance, because this column is about something that didn’t happen. Too much is actually happening in the world that deserves our...
T here are words and phrases that do some heavy lifting in British politics – “populism”, “Brexit”, “legitimate concerns”, the...
B race for another season of upheaval in the sports world. The Arabs are coming. Again. After the Qatar World Cup raised misgivings about...
I ’m not quite sure when it happened, but at some point over the past year, politicians’ language was taken over by a sort of corporate speak....
G iven how much the subject of immigration dominates British political life, it is remarkable how little people know about what it actually takes to...
O blivion. Possibly even extinction. That’s where the Conservative party is headed, it would be safe to assume, after the local elections wipeout,...