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This week the formal text is the apology provided by News Group Newspapers (NGN) to Prince Harry (under his title of Duke of Sussex) and Labour peer Tom Watson. This apology marked the sudden end of ...

The Trump regime is proclaiming that the United States is tired of empire, tired of being tied down by alliance burdens and freeloading allies. If so, the rest of the world is being handed the kind of ...

When should you ban a far-right party? A motion to consider a ban of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), signed by 113 members of parliament, has been submitted to Bundestag. It’s a sign of how ...

All this is consistent with responsible government but only because the president is subject to law. The great case of Marbury v Madison (1803) is generally regarded as the foundation of American ...

What struck me most from the first volume (of three) of the Collected Poems was just how much Tolkien was a poet of his times. The editors deny this, pointing to the idiosyncratic nature of his verse, ...

Western officials have been keen to emphasise that such a war may not transpire. Many suggest the risk of nuclear escalation has eased since the disastrous opening months of the invasion. In October, ...

In economics, our thinkers look beyond money and markets to address some of the biggest global trends and transformations. Among them are scholars whose work helps us understand inflation after the ...

With the JC we can discount profit: it’s safe to say it loses a large six-figure sum each year. So the person, or people, who pumped money into the ailing company in 2022 were either doing so from the ...

Two friends are holding hands, blocking the entrance to the Royal Courts of Justice. Their grasp is stuck with glue, and they’ve fixed their free hands to the metal gateposts. The pair are making a ...

Farage had plenty to celebrate. Among the Reform crowd drinking champagne and what the Times described as “jeroboams of white burgundy and double magnums of Tempo d’Angelus” were a host of minor ...

Rushing the aid-to-defence flip out early isn’t only intended to give Starmer something pleasing to say to the aid-slashing strongman when he visits Washington today (though there’s definitely a bit ...