Sunak takes his biggest gamble yet: a July election
Rishi Sunak said voters must make a choice on who is best placed to lead the UK in its recovery
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Wednesday
A summer election is suicide for the Tories
Calling an early election is an admission of defeat — and that, on everything from public finances to public services, the worst is yet to come
Tuesday
Press freedom means protecting Julian Assange
Britain has now apparently bound itself in a tangled web of law to abandon its tradition of harboring dissidents
Saturday
Are we heading for a new Cold War in Antarctica?
What can the West do about the news that Russia is conducting seismic surveying in the Weddell Sea?
Saturday
What was the point of Just Stop Oil’s Magna Carta stunt?
Given no one sane believes said armageddon is on the horizon, they just end up looking mad
Friday
Does David Lammy really expect Donald Trump to forgive and forget?
David Lammy said Trump was ‘a racist KKK and Nazi sympathizer’
Wednesday
Did the King snub Prince Harry?
If it looks like a snub and sounds like a snub, it almost certainly is a snub
Monday
Aukus is becoming a potent alliance
A principal focus will be China’s strategic tilt from the terrestrial to the maritime domain
Saturday
A timely morality tale: The Spoiled Heart, by Sunjeev Sahota, reviewed
Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens
Wales is facing a US-style opioid crisis
When heroin disappears, addiction to it does not. Even worse replacements soon crop up
Wednesday
What should we make of Russell Brand's baptism?
Brand over-invested in the cult of sexual hedonism, and can probably never lose the aura of sleazy preening libertine
Tuesday
The reassuring return of King Charles
The king’s presence out and about will be an immensely cheering one for anyone who has an iota of human sympathy
When will the Telegraph sale be concluded?
Abu Dhabi-backed company RedBird IMI will put the Daily Telegraph and Spectator titles back up for sale
The NHS has finally seen sense on biological sex
This is a win for everyone — especially those of us concerned about privacy rights
Saturday
The dangers of political prosecution
Where America goes, Britain follows
Thursday
Prince Harry ditches UK as primary residence
The UK isn’t safe enough for the precious Harry, he believes
Thursday
Common sense prevails in the gender debate
Medical professionals should have been alerted to what looked increasingly like a classic case of mass mania
Wednesday
Americans are wrong about British teeth
Every American family I know agrees that orthodontic agony is better than ending up with ‘British teeth’
The Cass report and the unforgivable puberty blockers scandal
The days of NHS England handing them and cross-sex hormones out to children is hopefully behind us
Tuesday
Cameron prefers charm to offensive in Blinken love-in
The main fun for the assembled journalists was the UK foreign secretary being asked about his dinner with Donald Trump