August 2024
When Keating went to war with the White House
Secret cables reveal for the first time how Keating’s right-hand man and a senior White House official engaged in an extraordinary war of words in 1992, sometimes in personal terms.
July 2024
Kingmaker to spectator: Rupert Murdoch bumped to Republican sidelines
The media baron’s backseat position at the Republican Convention reflects his diminished influence over a party wholly remade in Donald Trump’s image.
June 2024
Will Keir Starmer go wobbly on AUKUS?
The fantasy of a post-Brexit “global Britain” is gone, but British Labour says it will be everywhere around the world, and all at once.
April 2024
Why it doesn’t pay to be a working-class professional
Social class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity, a study by KPMG in Britain has shown.
June 2023
English cricket revealed as ‘racist, sexist, elitist’
A damning landmark report lays bare deep-rooted discrimination across the game, prompting an apology from authorities.
April 2023
Nigel Lawson, architect of Thatcher’s economic reforms, dies at 91
Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989, he championed lower personal taxes, wider share ownership and free market economics.
January 2023
Boris Johnson is the itch Tories must stop scratching
The former leader’s return is unlikely, but it is a sign of the Conservatives’ malaise that so many still dream of it.
October 2022
Lack of a better option the only thing saving Truss
The UK prime minister is facing political ruin after the collapse of her economic agenda, but Conservative MPs do not have an obvious successor to rally around.
June 2022
Queen Elizabeth II, 70 years of duty without drama
The discreet monarch has presided over decades of change while remaining largely an enigma.
April 2020
Johnson 'stable' in ICU, but confusion on lockdown timetable
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spent a second night in intensive care and was in a stable condition on Wednesday after receiving oxygen support for COVID-19 complications.
December 2019
Four implications of Boris Johnson’s victory
Boris Johnson can claim to have broken a vicious cycle, but his reshaped Conservative Party will have its work cut out to hold the UK together.