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‘Lammy is already facing a storm of criticism over the plan from the legal profession.’✍️ Nigel Jones
29/11/2025

‘Lammy is already facing a storm of criticism over the plan from the legal profession.’

✍️ Nigel Jones

At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge Evening News, and every working day would dutifully cycle to the city’s Guildhall to…

Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe✍️ Robin Ashenden
29/11/2025

Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe

✍️ Robin Ashenden

What would the filmmaker – who devoted almost a decade to his masterpiece, Shoah – make of Europe in 2025?

Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah✍️ Jonathan Spyer
29/11/2025

Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah

✍️ Jonathan Spyer

The persons who Hezbollah supporters should hold accountable for this are no longer available for reprimand.

The purpose of the Labour party is to begin revolutions; the purpose of the Conservative party is to make those revoluti...
29/11/2025

The purpose of the Labour party is to begin revolutions; the purpose of the Conservative party is to make those revolutions permanent.

✍️ Stephen Daisley

This week Catherine Connolly, the newly elected President of Ireland, welcomed John Swinney, First Minister of Scotland, to the Áras an Uachtaráin, official residence of the republic’s head of state.…

On Coffee House Shots: Megan McElroy is joined by Tim Shipman and Michael Simmons to discuss new data relating to the UK...
29/11/2025

On Coffee House Shots: Megan McElroy is joined by Tim Shipman and Michael Simmons to discuss new data relating to the UK’s brain drain.

With Budget week finally at an end, certain mysteries remain. Chief among them is why the Chancellor decided to give an emergency speech preparing the public for a rise in income tax. On 4 November,…

Putin repeated his claim that signing any documents with Ukraine was ‘pointless’ as President Zelensky has ‘lost his leg...
29/11/2025

Putin repeated his claim that signing any documents with Ukraine was ‘pointless’ as President Zelensky has ‘lost his legitimacy’.

✍️ Svitlana Morenets

‘When the Ukrainian troops leave the territories they occupy, then the hostilities will cease,’ declared Vladimir Putin during his state visit to Kyrgyzstan yesterday. ‘If they do not leave, we will…

The Matchbox Girl is as tense as a thriller and profoundly moving.
29/11/2025

The Matchbox Girl is as tense as a thriller and profoundly moving.

Vienna, 25 July 1934 is a significant date in Austria’s history. But in The Matchbox Girl, the big events happen offstage, the world seen entirely through the eyes of its youthful narrator. We focus…

The BB had been sick and dizzy for days and now he was experimenting with moving about.✍️ Melissa Kite
29/11/2025

The BB had been sick and dizzy for days and now he was experimenting with moving about.

✍️ Melissa Kite

The garage owner came at me with an angry expression as I pulled on to his forecourt, which was the last thing I was expecting. His employee had just crashed head on into the builder boyfriend while…

France will intervene only before traffickers have picked up passengers.✍️ Lucy Dunn
29/11/2025

France will intervene only before traffickers have picked up passengers.

✍️ Lucy Dunn

After months of pressure from Britain, France has agreed to begin intercepting small boats in the English Channel

The destruction of our automobile and energy industries in terms of GDP and Treasury receipts is mindless.✍️ The Spectat...
29/11/2025

The destruction of our automobile and energy industries in terms of GDP and Treasury receipts is mindless.

✍️ The Spectator

Unsustainable energy Sir: Sir Richard Dearlove (‘Net cost’, 22 November) succinctly sums up the views of many of us who cannot understand the whole lemming-like net-zero policy. This leap into the…

The hacks’ interests have not changed. Nor have ours. ✍️ Peter Jones
29/11/2025

The hacks’ interests have not changed. Nor have ours.

✍️ Peter Jones

Nero’s personal amphitheatre, recently discovered near the Vatican, was praised to the skies in the ancient Romans’ ‘newspaper’. The historian Tacitus commented drily that it ought to carry stories…

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