The UK government is “going for growth” whilst pursuing an aggressive net zero energy policy. Are the two goals compatible?

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At yesterday’s Nato summit in The Hague, all but one of the 32 leaders agreed to increase their defence spending to 5 per ...

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A Labour government facing a rebellion over welfare reform is something of a dog-bites-man story – Labour never finds this ...

On 3 June 1960, a letter appeared in The Spectator which began: The letter was prompted by the government’s failure to act ...

So wrote Frank O’Hara in ‘Ave Maria’, in 1964. Matthew Specktor is the son of the talent agent Fred Specktor and the writer ...

I see Generation Intifada has a new hero. Those rich white kids who never leave the house without their keffiyeh and who love ...