‘Gold leaf, caviar and truffles remind me of a rather crude, sexist phrase popular in the north of England’

✍️ Julie Bindel

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Gordon Brown is best known for one thing: selling the gold. Other politicians should learn from this

James Kirkup

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‘Alan Watt's lectures can easily be broken up into little minute-long chunks, perfect for the limited attention spans of the screen-addled masses.’

✍️ Gus Carter

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'Sadiq Khan’s unpopularity was correctly diagnosed, but the Conservative prescription – a highly negative campaign – was wrong'

✍️ Nick Rogers

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🚨 New: 'John Swinney, has been elected – unopposed – as the new leader of the SNP. The Scottish parliament is still to vote Swinney in as First Minister – but before it does, Mr S would be keen to take a look at some of his worst moments…'

✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/john-s…

'A battle in Rafah would not necessarily represent Yahya Sinwar’s last roll of the dice'

✍️ Jonathan Spyer

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'Israel cannot allow Hamas to keep control of Gaza and to continue to attack Israelis'

✍️ Limor Simhony Philpott

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'If Ukrainians aren’t willing to defend their country then why should France or any other Nato country send troops?'

✍️ Gavin Mortimer

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'You don’t need a politician to have fancy prose, but you do want to feel that there’s an intelligent mind at work'

✍️ Sam Leith

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This weekend is the Snooker World Championship. Not that anyone will notice...

🎱 Colin Freeman

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'A principal focus of the alliance will be China’s strategic tilt from the terrestrial to the maritime domain'

✍️ John Keiger

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'The most important reason behind this rewiring of our children’s brains is social media algorithms'

✍️ Kristina Murkett

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'You don’t have to agree with Cofnas to see that the fact he might be fired for expressing his views violates fundamental principles of academic freedom'

✍️ Laurie Wastell

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'Despite being one of the world’s most isolated states, North Korea has a long history of producing cartoons'

✍️ Edward Howell

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Why are the Japanese so bad at English?

✍️ Philip Patrick

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🎱 How snooker snookered itself

✍️ Colin Freeman

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Harry and Meghan’s desperate rebrand

✍️ Jane Robins

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🗣 ‘Meghan’s unpopularity is practically unmatched by anyone apart from Harry.’

📺 The Week in 60 Minutes | Alexander Larman on why Meghan Markle doesn’t come to Britain anymore

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If Reform had fought these local elections more widely, the picture might have looked even bleaker for the Conservatives

✍️ Professor John Curtice

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Watch: Galloway hangs up on LBC

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