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Schooling in Britain today is where medicine was in the days of bleeding and leeches. It is trapped in the past, between teachers wedded to their…

The royal family was always a disaster waiting to happen. Its creation as a marketable entity in the 1960s by the late Queen Elizabeth II was…

Party conference time is when British politics goes berserk. Leaders soar and crash in a morass of cliches. Polls go mad and cataclysm always delivers the…

The children were sleeping when death came from the air. A military warplane dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on their boarding school, witnesses said. Imagine, if…

Britain has made its point. We can do the past. The rest of the world may be more powerful and richer than we are, but only…

Tony Blair’s leaked presence at the recent White House discussion of Donald Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan is either good news or outrageous. Good news if he…

“Delivery, delivery, delivery”. That’s what the prime minister promised as he announced yet another government reboot, insisted he would get all asylum hotels closed “as quickly…

This was a good week to bury bad news. But why bury good news? No banner headline announced that the Prince of Wales is to move…

A question we’re all often asking ourselves: What would Megan Draper wear in 2025? With Simon Miller’s fall 2025 collection, Chelsea Hansford may have an answer.This…

The idea that if you really, really believe something you can make it happen seems to be the best explanation for Britain and France’s recent statements…