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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 ...

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

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

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It is a year ago next week that Labour won the general election. ‘The adults are back in the room!’ proclaimed Treasury ...

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

The 1990s and the following decade were, it is widely agreed, a bad time to be a girl. Which is strange, because a girl ...

The government published its National Security Strategy 2025 earlier this week, a strange pushmi-pullyu document building on ...