COMMENT

The ‘new world’ label is 600 years old and needs updating.

— Say the words “new world”. What image comes to mind? The United States? Possibly Canada? Maybe Mexico or Chile? What about India?

Hostile Environment

New data reveals scale of waiting times for the EU Settlement Scheme.

— The Home Office is denying rights to thousands of EU citizens and hundreds of thousands of people who are unable to join their family members, due to the hostile environment towards immigration.

COMMENT

Salman Rushdie, the man who told stories about India.

— Salman Rushdie features in almost every story about India, a country that he is fascinated with, that is in his bones. But is he the master or victim of our times?

COMMENT

The last white woman, Liz Truss.

— Had it been anyone but Rishi Sunak, would Liz Truss really be the frontrunner in the Conservative Leadership Contest to replace Boris Johnson?

Downing Street Parties

New revelations about gaps in the Met Partygate investigation.

— For the law to have any meaning, it must apply equally to us all. The Metropolitan Police must explain their failure to provide any explanation of how they cleared the Prime Minister over the Partygate investigation.

Sri Lanka Protest

Sri Lanka’s protesters are demanding change. Here’s why.

— Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country after weeks of protests. Now Sri Lankans want action — and fast.

COMMENT

Boris boosterism and bluster won’t keep Brexit Britain’s reality hidden forever.

— Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised a change in tone and apparent temperament for Britain. In the past five years, it went from respected former imperial power to unreliable protagonist with an outsize ego.

Immigration

How the hostile environment is affecting EU citizens.

— A year on from the deadline to the EU Settlement Scheme, we are all now living under the Home Office’s hostile environment.

COMMENT

Boris remade Britain’s image as a mussy-haired wannabe with a slippery sense of propriety.

— Boris Johnson’s legacy: There is a sense of a country that is packaging and re-packaging shop-worn goods with a sales pitch that runs to superlatives.

COMMENT

‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris adopts an American accent.

— To defy his moment of humiliation, Eton-educated Boris Johnson used a surprising American slang in his resignation speech.

COMMENT

In Iran, one man exercises complete control for his lifetime. In the US, it’s now six people.

— Political gridlock across the US federal government has made the country’s supreme court uniquely powerful.

COMMENT

Government could be forced to come clean over VIP Test and Trace contracts.

— It looks likely the Government will be forced to come clean over companies handed VIP Test and Trace contracts.

COMMENT

The G7 has returned to being a gentlemen’s club.

— With Angela Merkel gone, the G7 has returned to being a male bastion.

Education

The Schools Bill: An attack on home-schooling that hurts children the most.

— Many are alarmed by the Government’s new Schools Bill which seems designed to force some children into mainstream education against their best interests.

COMMENT

A peaceful transfer of power in America? Yes, but...

— I don’t know about you but the Colombian election has been a rare bright spot in the news from the Americas.

COMMENT

Ever wondered how the monarchy survives in Britain?

— With the Platinum Jubilee celebrations currently happening, what makes the British monarchy go on in a world that has become flatter and more egalitarian? And how on earth does it even survive?