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JUNE 13. 2025

Richard Madeley meets his match in David Bull

The new Reform chair gave an interview in which he claimed his dead grandmother entered the body of ghost-botherer Derek Acorah

The father of Iran’s nuclear programme

One day an engineer at a metals company in Holland stole a trove of nuclear secrets and offered them for sale – his first customer was Iran

Israel strikes as the sheriff leaves town

Trump doesn’t care about the bombing of Iran, or global security. Now Europe must fill the volatile vacuum he has left behind

JUNE 12. 2025

Gibraltar’s Brexit war is finally over. Cue the outrage

A long-awaited and much-needed compromise has the loony right crying about betrayal… and potatoes

An awkward award for the Daily Telegraph

The paper scooped a best launch award for its Daily T podcast - days after parting company with one of its presenters

JUNE 11. 2025

What Britain is throwing away

You used to be the coolest Europeans, with the best music and culture. But cutting back the British Council and the World Service will only make you smaller on the world stage

Rachel Reeves’s best day still doesn’t feel like enough

The chancellor is spending billions – but the moment demands far more

Richard Tice snubbed for a place at Reform’s top table again

The party's deputy leader has once again missed out on a seat on its controlling board

This is what it means to be European

To be in Europe is to live without boundaries. The Irish have chosen that path, and their national identity has soared

Gen Z, the scared generation

Politicians from the main parties have ignored us for too long. No wonder my generation is out there looking for alternatives

Reform backer Mullins plumbs new depths

The party's putative parliamentary candidate made a Charlie of himself on social media once again

JUNE 10. 2025

Matt Kelly’s picks of the week: William F Buckley, a new Netflix boxset and a great cosmopolitan

Our founder and editor-in-chief’s weekly highlights from the magazine

Jorge Luis Borges, a doppelganger in Buenos Aires

The writer shared a deep, collaborative friendship with his kindred spirit Adolfo Bioy Casares, who became his literary double

A weak and feeble woman

Why did Queen Elizabeth I, in her famous speech at Tilbury in 1588, use two words with almost identical meanings to describe herself?