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In October 2022, then home secretary Suella Braverman disclosed to us her deepest yearning, her aching desire: “I would love to have a front page...
Since the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, our politicians, leader writers and commentators have quite lost their heads. The...
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Andrew Neil, chairman of The Spectator magazine, first (and short-lived) chairman of GB News, and a doubtlessly formidable right-wing thinker, wrote...
Oh, what a night! We went to an election party in a gay club in Vauxhall, London, me in the most shimmery, celebratory top ever, a buoyant, anti-Tory...
In a letter published in this paper on Monday, William Blake of Hampshire wrote that he was supporting Reform because of “the overwhelming number of...
Electioneering is full on. Campaigns, mess-ups, sharpened messages, and increasingly combative speeches, TV debates, emotive vox pops, leaflets and...
Used to be that most elected women and men believed that politics was about serving the people and the nation. After their 2010 victory, pumped-up,...
Labour’s plans to impose 20 per cent VAT on private school fees are causing much brouhaha. The Tories, well-heeled parents and heads cry, “It’s...
I’ve only just got to Channel 4’s wonderful series The Piano . After each episode, I learn a little more about the incredible versatility and...
Oh lord, here I am, sticking up for Rishi Sunak, a politician I despise, because the odious and manipulative Nigel Farage is using the PM’s D-Day...
Electioneering politicians are banging on (again) about illegal and legal migrants. Picking on outsiders appeases disgruntled “patriots”. But get...
I got my first proper job as a journalist around the time Diane Abbott, Bernie Grant, Keith Vaz and Paul Boateng became Labour MPs and brought colour...
My dad didn’t give me much love or care. But he was gripped by British politics and avidly read newspapers – passions I inherited. For that, and...
Yet again we see Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and “non-working Royal”, outshining frontline Royals on the world stage. Outside the UK she is vastly...
The Sunday Times Rich List appeared just after the Archbishop of Canterbury called on Labour to scrap the Tory two-child benefit cap and Gordon...
The Prime Minister delivered a stirring speech on Sunday. The world, he warned, “is in one of the most dangerous periods we’ve ever known”. True...
I’ve known Sadiq Khan for a long time. Unlike Susan Hall – his intolerant, blinkered and spiteful Tory adversary – he is sharp, free thinking,...
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Rishi Sunak applauds his Rwanda asylum act, now passed by Parliament. He believes this “victory” makes him a political champ. A major operation...
Something about Angela Rayner seems to turn a whole lot of male politicians and commentators into jumpy teenage boys. In the Sunday Times this week,...
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On Monday, the charmless Liz Truss told the LBC radio host Iain Dale that those with left-wing beliefs were “smearing her” by blaming her for...
The recently released Forbes list of the world’s billionaires shows the club is swelling and that members are richer than ever. There are now 141...
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On Sunday I went to my friend’s 75th birthday tea party. Born in the USA, she moved here, married a Brit and became a Londoner. As did I. She is...
There is an exodus of nurses out of the UK. You may not have heard this news because such information would disrupt the dark folktale spun by many...
I was at the Oxford Literary Festival last weekend, speaking as well as listening. I’ve been doing that for many years. This time, the mood in the...
Well, I never! A membership list of the secretive men-only Garrick Club has been published for the first time ever! And guess what? It contains names...
I am in danger of being classed as an extremist and terrorist. As is my friend, Natasha Walter – Jewish, British, writer, redoubtable feminist and...
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What if our Commons had, say, 50 candidates unattached to the major parties? Imagine that. Come with me through this thought experiment. Politicians...
My son was born on 30 January, 1978. On that very day, Margaret Thatcher, then Opposition leader, spoke thus on a Granada TV programme: “People are...
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Here comes yet another poll of the Tory faithful, this one commissioned by Lady McAlpine, an incurable Boris Johnson addict. More than half of the...
At last, a Tory MP I can fulsomely praise: Kate Kniveton. Her voting record would, no doubt, dismay this socialist, but she’s become an unlikely...
Over the years, you will have read me fervently praising the BBC. All children of the old empire carry this faith in their hearts. We are, literally,...
A Syrian refugee and doctor I met in London last week told me, with immense sadness, that Western governments and systems, once widely admired in the...
Betty Boothroyd, who became the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, and later, a Baroness, was going to use her valedictory speech to call...
News impatiently rushes forwards. Producers and consumers get caught up in the currents of now and the near future. But sometimes, one needs to get...
Do you know what “woke” means? Are you with or against those fighting wokeness and cancel culture? Would you vote for an MP just because he/she...
How much more can the NHS suffer before it expires? Should the life-support machine, which is itself getting timeworn, be turned off as an act of...
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The ITV drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office has generated political and social quakes not seen since the 1966 BBC TV play about homelessness, Cathy...
We cross into the new year and try to start afresh, leave all the bad stuff behind. As 2024 begins, such renewal feels foolish and delusional. Brutal...
I don’t feel at all merry, or full of festive cheer. Admittedly, the lead up to Christmas has always felt excessive, noisy, disconnected from its...
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Christmas: the season of joy, peace, laughter, lights and trees, thankfulness, sharing, charitable giving, presents, carols, drinking and eating too...
You may think the row over the Parthenon Sculptures is old news. In fact, it is a canary down the coal mine, a harbinger of what’s to come....