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On Tuesday, Prof Kathleen Stock did a media round, following a fresh row about her appearance at the Oxford Union that day and a Channel 4...
W estminster rarely serves up good news, so let us celebrate when it does. Millions of employees are about to get a new statutory right: they can...
What could Boris Johnson possibly have done in Chequers to make the Cabinet Office refer his diary to the police? Obviously we couldn’t speculate,...
I always assume that when a person gets a new dog, the household lives for a period in new-baby territory. That is to say, anyone is allowed to...
M y Mr and I waste a lot of argument capital circling around the probable consequences of politicians’ misdemeanours. He thinks we’re in...
C areful what you wish for. The Thai royalist-military establishment has spent years attempting to suppress the political forces that swelled around...
M artha Stewart, at 81, this week becomes the oldest cover star ever to grace Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. With her tousled beach hair,...
T wo years ago, my sister was about to turn 50 and I called her spouse to see what he was getting her. He rattled off a number of ideas so...
I t was the first beautiful day of 2023 and everyone in the country was in a park, except for me. I was in Westfield’s west London outpost, in...
T he European Broadcasting Union, which organises Eurovision, is like the European Central Bank: whenever it’s called upon to make an important...
J ust before the new king appeared on the balcony, I got some wonderful news: my Bolivian friend had passed her UK citizenship test. The fifth time...
P oor King Charles. And yet, on the other hand, daft King Charles: he’s served a 50-year apprenticeship for this gig. You’d think he’d have...
B ritain’s first women-only tower block, 15 storeys of 102 units, has just been given planning permission in Ealing, west London. Women’s Pioneer...
I n further Dispatches from Universities Proving Things You Already Knew, academics in Zurich have shown that couples who do unhealthy things...
T he problem with the royal family is that there is no “don’t care” option. The default, I believe, is to love them. Monarchists always give...
W hen the government controversially scrapped its discount on the purchase of electric cars last summer, the move was justified on the grounds that...
H ope has been hard to find in Yemen. After more than eight years of war, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, many of them civilians, the...
P rince Harry has long alleged that the royal family – “the Institution”, as he calls it – is locked in a trap of appeasement with the...
Two-thirds of people would dump a partner or forgo a second date if their dog or cat didn’t like the person, according to a poll by Pets at Home....
W atching the right’s line take shape around Dominic Raab, the former deputy prime minister and justice secretary, over the weekend was almost...
T he arrival of a male contraceptive pill is imminent. Scientists at Washington State University have identified the gene responsible for normal...
I thought the most thankless and debasing task in the country, where royal events were concerned, was poet laureate. You have to be medium...
I revised my opinion once in 2007. I went on the radio to vigorously protest against the smoking ban, which was just about to come in, and was...
W hat Covid did to various businesses will never make total sense to me. But it appears to have both saved Tupperware, briefly, and now scotched it,...
F or as long as we’ve been married, Mr Z has started the day the same way. He says: “Do you want to know what’s in your future?” and I say:...
I have no strong views about Keir Starmer’s attack ad, in which he accuses Rishi Sunak of letting paedophiles walk free. I have managed to keep...
C ompetent, reasonable, functioning government doesn’t get much spotlight on the world stage, particularly when there are wars and pandemics going...
W hen I was 12, I did Guys and Dolls for a school play. It didn’t leave some massive, psyche-reshaping mark – I don’t fly to it like a homing...
I t’s become such a cliche to complain about gaslighting in politics that it’s hackneyed now even to complain about other people saying it. Yet...
I left a houseplant outside, not because I didn’t know it was a houseplant – I had been told: “This will look nice in your kitchen” – but...
M y millennial friend was explaining the trajectory of the men-are-trash narrative. It fell out of fashion for a bit, but now it’s very much back....
“S ay nothing, she’s going to use it,” my 13-year-old daughter said to my 15-year-old son, like a Miranda warning. It was the week after the...
I n Wednesday’s final episode of Josh Baker’s gripping documentary about Shamima Begum, he visits a camp where the young woman from east London...
“W e’re both looking forward to spending the second half of our lives together,” said 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch of his planned summer...
L ike all bad ideas, this enterprise started with me thinking: “I bet I could make this myself.” It was kimchi. Everyone really likes it: one kid...
M y mother hates sentimentality of any sort, but especially the mandated, socially coordinated kind: Christmas (yuck, families); Halloween (American...
T here’s a story about Paula Yates bumping into Diana, Princess of Wales that Yates’s friend Belinda Brewin recollects in the documentary Paula...
I ’ve been in the Gary Lineker defence business for ages, since way before it was cool. In 2017, the Daily Mail attempted a hit job on his tax...
‘L adies, never let anyone tell you you are past your prime,” Michelle Yeoh told a rapt audience as she accepted her Oscar on Sunday. She made...
B ritain did not sign up to the 1951 United Nations refugee convention by accident, nor was the country bamboozled into the European convention on...
A s Emmanuel Macron sought radically to reform France’s pensions system in 2019, one of his senior lieutenants warned that intense opposition in...
W hat is the public interest value of Matt Hancock’s huge cache of WhatsApp messages? They tell us a fair amount about him and his vanity. He has a...
“Y ou were in our PBE video,” my youngest said, when she got home from school. I find it hard to disaggregate the acronym lessons in the...
A h, Boris Johnson – such a safe pair of hands for any eventuality or crisis, national or international, but where you can really rely on him is in...
M r Z has this habit of being generally right in his political predictions and it’s annoying for two reasons: first, his hunches are always bad;...
I don’t even like tomatoes, especially, but I seemed to have nine in a paper bag, and had picked them up with my own hands – this detail will be...
R ishi Sunak’s shuttle diplomacy – which took him from Belfast to Munich over the weekend – was an attempt to seize the moment over the...
S o the scene was a set of railway arches, and there was a different party in each one. In retrospect, it was really easy to tell them apart: it went...
N icola Bulley’s family now has a fresh agony to endure, now that the body found a mile from where she was last seen has been identified, seemingly...
I n Stoke-on-Trent, bus services were cut by 37% in the five years to March 2022. Things are worse in Hertfordshire, where they are down by more than...