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“Unnecessary and stupid”, said Poland’s Donald Tusk of the other Donald T’s initial imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and...

On 27th January 2025 the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz – Birkenau...

A reader from overseas asked me to write something about the war in Africa. ‘Which war?’ I asked. Although there is trouble in the...

There are two sharply opposing views on eucalypts, a genus of over 700 species native mainly to Australia, and mostly trees. A small...

To escape the dullness of January and the deep despair of the anti-Trumpers – “He moved the whole thing inside so nobody could see how...

Last month I wrote to Only Connect’s editor, Richard Pooley, asking: ‘Where was the leadership and strategy plan that the EU’s Brussels...

As we enter 2025, it is getting increasingly hard to feel optimistic about my country. The gulf between those in government and the...

The internet tells us that the five most crime-ridden countries in the world are Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and...

Ms Harris having, somewhat disappointingly, failed to lead a march of angry Bidenites (Joeists?) to storm the Capitol, it looks as though...

So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...