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MAY 21. 2025

Nigel Farage, the Macavity of Brexit

Reform’s leader has gone on holiday as MPs debate the UK-EU reset deal. It’s not a gaffe - it’s a ruse to avoid scrutiny

Putin has played Trump

The Russian president got exactly what he wanted out of the latest round of talks in Istanbul

Absent Farage found frolicking in France

The Reform leader has been uncharacteristically quiet in the week of the prime minister's big EU deal

MAY 20. 2025

Critical mass: Why is Trump’s America anti-science?

The US has long led the science world but now, researchers are moving abroad to continue their work

Alastair Campbell’s diary: Labour must reverse the winter fuel allowance cuts

Of all the things that the Labour government has done, this is the one that has done the most political damage

Am I welcome in Britain?

I’m one of those people who’s lived in more than one country and has now settled in the UK. Is that really so unreasonable?

Dilettante: The government which actively loathes its own voters

Starmer is yet to reach the first anniversary of his premiership but, already, he has repudiated young middle-class metropolitan voters

Robert Capa, the photographer who couldn’t resist the lure of the battlefield

The Japanese invasion of China, the D-day landings, the founding of Israel – no war was too small for Capa, no battlefield too bloody

Going ballistic in the Balearics

The original inhabitants of the popular Mediterranean archipelago were renowned for their use of catapults and slingshots as weapons

Josh Barrie on food: The good madness of Neapolitan tapas

The people of Naples speak their own language, have their own style, eat their own food and drink their own wine

The ‘secret plan’ to dim the sun

Conspiracy theorists blame vapour trails on a strange experiment endorsed by Keir Starmer.

Letters: Tory members have killed their own party

The rot set in when Conservative members were given the right to vote for their leader, resulting in the disastrous premierships of Johnson, Truss and Sunak

We must take a nuclear leap into the unknown

Our political class is racing to catch up with a changed world of defence procurement

Germansplaining: The House of Hohenzollern, a dynasty fit for a Netflix drama

After 99 years, the German authorities and the Hohenzollern family have decided to bury the hatchet