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Kate Forbes’s treatment at the Edinburgh Fringe was a farce
Summerhall is one of Edinburgh’s largest Fringe venues, also running year-round exhibitions and artistic performances. This past week, it has…
Rachel Reeves must pull Britain from its doom loop
Britain’s is growing, albeit sluggishly. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the economy grew by…
Why an overhaul of A-levels is long overdue
It’s been forty years since I took my A-levels. Yet one particular dream still gatecrashes my sleep with irritating regularity:…
What is the point of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir?
Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since Prince Harry’s Spare. Her…
Trump is liberating the Smithsonians from ‘Woke’
Back in March, Donald Trump issued an executive order called “Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History.” Its aim was…
Friedrich Merz’s reign of error
We are 100 days into Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship, and Germany has achieved something truly remarkable: a coalition government so perfectly…
Wow! The Trumpiest Kennedy Center list ever
In the most-hyped announcement of Kennedy Center Honor nominees ever, President Trump appeared this morning at the Kennedy Center, or,…
Ian Blackford refuses to rule out Holyrood bid
Well, well, well. After Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes announced she was stepping down at next year’s Scottish parliament election,…
Beware the Nagasaki and Hiroshima revisionism
2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the most calamitous conflict in history. The victory…
Police chiefs must learn to use their common sense
Britain’s top cop club has released new guidance to forces in England and Wales on when and how to describe…
Britain’s foreign secretary faces fine for fishing without a license
What people on the other side of the pond call “Brand Britain” has taken something of a knock in recent…
The US is right to warn Britain about its free speech record
Every year the US State Department is required to produce a report on the human rights situation in every country…
The case for Letby’s innocence looks weaker than ever
The annual Panorama documentary on Lucy Letby appeared on BBC 1 this week, barely a week after a more one-sided pro-Letby…
What Marcus Rashford gets right – and wrong – about United
Marcus Rashford, formerly of Manchester United, now of Barcelona, has opened up about his time at Old Trafford in a podcast interview…
Top five howlers from Sturgeon’s memoir
Oh dear. Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly was always going to have its detractors, given how divisive a figure the SNP’s…
The police guidance on revealing ethnicity does not go far enough
At nine minutes past eight on the evening of Monday May 26, Merseyside Police did something that no other British…
Scotland has one of the largest deficits in the Western world
It’s that time of year again: GERS day – when Scotland’s annual fiscal health is laid bare – has come…
The small boats crisis is getting worse. What’s Labour’s plan?
How long it seems since the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid declared a ‘major incident’ in the Channel on account…
Zelensky prepares to woo Trump one last time
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Berlin this morning, where at 3pm local time he will speak to Donald Trump…
Why you should confront the next shoplifter you see
Physical courage isn’t my most obvious quality. I hope, if push came to shove, I’d stand up for myself (I…
Can Trump take down the cartels?
In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama. The objective was Manuel Noriega, a pineapple-faced general who’d risen to power…
Regulation – not climate change – is making our flats unbearably hot
If you want to spend the sunny weather house-hunting in East London, you will be met with a stark message…
Did I underestimate Harry and Meghan?
It is important for any self-respecting writer to admit when they get it wrong. So it is with an element…
Essex-boy Elegy: J.D. Vance meets the Bosh man
Vice President Vance is currently receiving visitors at an 18th-century Georgian manor in the Cotswolds, an implausibly quaint patch of…
Young people are becoming increasingly authoritarian
‘It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms’, Winston Churchill…
