Starmer's CHANGE: is a threat, promise, or a command?
MATT KERR is troubled by Labour election slogan and the old adage it invokes that ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’
The welcome news that Cuba has finally been removed from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list is tempered by the fact that Donald Trump, the man who put it there, is returning to the White House, warns NATASHA HICKMAN
Thanks to impressive progress in Britain with wind and solar generation, clean electricity now costs a fraction of the price of gas — yet the current system keeps bills artificially high to protect fossil fuels, writes TOM HARDY
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Many Western countries are grappling with deep political instability. What are the causes of this, and what could be a possible way forward? asks MARC VANDEPITTE
KEITH BENNETT explains why, despite its present meagre economic outcomes, an honest and fruitful partnership with China is worth pursuing
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK
THE NEWS was out, the leaks set, and the tell-tale appearance of the logo-free lectern in the middle of the road in Downing Street was the final, undeniable, sign that we were going to be asked to vote for another government.
I listened to Mr Sunak, but I’ll confess that I really didn’t hear very much; remarkable only in that it somehow managed to rework John Major’s old campaign slogan “yes it hurt, yes it worked” into something even more agonisingly dull and ghoulish.
It was a cruel irony that those of us remote from the whole farce could hear every word on the television or radio, while those in Downing Street were spared the content.
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