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Hot air
Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…
Identity crisis
This week Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies confessed that, replying to a freedom of information request, they had managed to release…
On board
Over decades of service as a floating hotel, the Bibby Stockholm has accommodated all manner of people. It has housed…
Trumped up
The latest charges against Donald Trump will do nothing to deter his many supporters within the Republican party. On the…
Banking crisis
The Coutts scandal can be traced back to the day, two years ago, when the bank proudly announced that it…
Held to account
When Nigel Farage said Coutts had closed his bank account and claimed political victimisation, many thought he was making it…
Turning the tide
The Illegal Migration Bill is having a distorting effect on the Tory party. It has put Theresa May and Iain…
Not so special
You can tell a lot about a president’s politics by his foreign visits. Joe Biden’s decision to skip King Charles’s…
Bad education
Rishi Sunak tends to shy away from social issues so it has been left to a backbencher, Miriam Cates, to…
Europe turns right
On her recent visit to Washington, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves presented herself as the perfect candidate to be the next…
Birth rights
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
Don’t stifle AI
In his meeting with Joe Biden this week, Rishi Sunak proposed a research centre and regulatory body for artificial intelligence…
The politics of panic
It is 15 months since Sweden’s Coronavirus Commission presented its final report. The 770-page document analysed how the country handled…
The Ely agenda
‘There’s a lot of societal issues in Ely,’ said an anonymous caller to BBC Radio Wales the morning after the…
University challenge
Our country still excels when it comes to higher education. Britain has seven of the world’s top 50 universities. In…
Putin’s last laugh
There was much mirth in the West this week when Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day parade through Red Square included just…
Crowning glory
What the world will see when Charles III is crowned is not just the rare spectacle of a monarchy that…
Eclipses and revolutions
The fiasco in Khartoum is being widely interpreted as a tragic failure of intelligence. James Cleverly, the Foreign Secretary, is…
Breaking News
The idea that Donald Trump was denied victory in the 2020 presidential election by conspirators determined to fiddle with the…
Reign or shine
The United Kingdom is one of the last countries in the world to host lavish coronation ceremonies. Europe’s new kings…
Lessons from Lawson
Nigel Lawson was the most consequential chancellor in modern British history. He gave the world a case study in how…
Mistaken identity
The World Athletics Council has taken the decisive step of announcing that transgender women who underwent male puberty before their…
Party games
Boris Johnson should not be forgiven for his handling of lockdown. He needlessly criminalised everyday behaviour when voluntary guidelines would…
The missing million
There was plenty of miserable economic news in this week’s Budget: the highest taxes imposed by any peacetime government, the…
Our duty to refugees
It is hard to deny that the government must take tough action on the issue of migrants arriving in Britain…
