Tempting though it might be to take satisfaction in Huntley’s gruesome end, he is dead because an institution tasked with controlling the most dangerous men failed in its primary duty
✍️ Stephen Daisley
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Ireland’s schizophrenic approach to Iran
✍️ Liz Walsh
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Iran’s humiliating climbdown:
The Iranian regime is already adjusting its behaviour under pressure, announcing that it will stop attacking neighbouring countries unless those countries attack Iran first
✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti
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We thought we were too good for the Premier League. The humiliating truth may be that the Premier League is too good for us
✍️ Philip Patrick
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The appointment of a woman to lead such a prestigious institution should have been cause for rejoicing, especially for the left. Instead it has provoked an outbreak of operatic sound and fury
✍️ Nicholas Farrell
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Could the Kurds rise up against Iran?
According to various reports, these groups have received training and logistical support from intelligence agencies including the CIA and Mossad
✍️ Yossi Melman
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Why the Ayatollahs might be harder to remove than Trump thinks
✍️ Matthew Gould
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Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many.
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
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'Progressive’ or ‘woke’ politics is undoubtedly religious. But not in a good way.
✍️ Nigel Biggar
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The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’.
✍️ Druin Burch
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EXCLUSIVE: Britain is to get a new ‘anti-Muslim hostility tsar’ under plans to be outlined by the government on Monday, which will also include a new definition of Islamophobia.
✍️ Tim Shipman
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Iran war: Should Britain be a leading voice?
Maurice Glasman argues that Britain should be taking a more proactive position on Iran and advocate Iran's return to a constitutional monarchy.
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Over the last week, I have been stalking Pierre Poilievre.
✍️ William Atkinson
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On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced that the UK will send four additional Typhoon fighters to Qatar.
✍️ Jonathan Brown
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Britain’s refusal to fully back the United States over strikes on Iran has triggered an unusually public transatlantic row. It has also revived an old question about the future of the so-called ‘special relationship’.
✍️ Sam Olsen
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There’s a trend on YouTube at the moment for videos in which older people give advice. They speak directly to camera, frankly and without pretension.
✍️ Gary Dexter
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A few weeks ago I thought a March interest rates cut was ‘near certain’.
✍️ Michael Simmons
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Sir: Ian Maxwell’s declaration of loyalty (‘Trial by outrage’, 28 February) to his father is understandable but mistaken, since Robert was an unmitigated liar and thief.
✍️ Simon Cawkwell, London W14
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Valdo Calocane was never interviewed by the police, who were utterly incurious in their interactions with him.
✍️ Lara Brown
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It may seem strange that fashion is the latest branch of public life to find Ramadan hip.
✍️ Julie Burchill
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Macron is frequently accused of having few if any convictions. He has one, which has been a constant since he was elected president in 2017: namely that Europe must stand militarily on its own two feet.
✍️ Gavin Mortimer
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Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today.
✍️ Patrick West
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n 500 BC, Persia (modern Iran) was the most powerful state in the known world, ruling an area of more than two million square miles from the Balkans and Egypt to central Asia (nearly half of the world’s population).
✍️ Peter Jones
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The GP says my mother is fine and my father is marvellous for his age. But that’s not true. They’ve got dementia. They’re demented.
✍️ Melissa Kite
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She has been with us for years and, although she is rather hopeless, which is why we have never raised her salary, our dogs love her, but I don’t want to upgrade her pay to an unrealistic rate. What should I do?
✍️ S.H., Towcester
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To me, grandee goes together with Tory. So it was a surprise to find Lord Mandelson called a Labour grandee in recent reports.
✍️ Dot Wordsworth
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‘Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking?’
✍️ Madeline Grant
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Five people I never met wished me a Happy Friday last Friday by email. You can pretty much be wished a happy anything nowadays, except perhaps Easter, since this assumes you share in the joy of the Resurrection.
✍️ Melanie McDonagh
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One word stood out in the florid and overwrought announcement of the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader by a tearful state-television newsreader on 1 March.
✍️ Justin Marozzi
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Morrissey is back. And he’s sassy as hell. At the O2 on Saturday night, the once-waifish Smiths frontman turned stocky solo crooner cast shade on the haters.
✍️ Tom Slater
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