How the Grinch Stole Christmas! isn’t a documentary. It’s just a story. I mean, you can’t cancel Christmas! Only last year, we did. And some people had their Christmas more cancelled than others…. So this year, the government is so determined that Christmas actually does happen that they’ve announced special new visa rules to make…
Boris Johnson is right that we must manage expectations, but also to use the opportunity to tout Britain’s green business credentials With just weeks to go before the COP26 summit in Glasgow, the prime minister couldn’t have articulated better how the world should be thinking about climate change. His choice of the phrase a “turning…
Determination, equality, inspiration and courage. These are the Paralympic values that played out every single day, in every single sport this summer during the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. As our Paralympic athletes have now come home with 124 medals, we have a real opportunity to do two things. First, to recognise and honour their determination…
Even as critics of GB News gloat over the traumas and embarrassments of its shambolic launch, its founders might congratulate themselves on having achieved at least part of their mission.
Sunday: Burnley having undeservedly lost to Arsenal, I wasn’t in the mood for football, but Jimmy Greaves’ death meant watching old footage of the maestro at work. My son Rory, who works in football analytics, texted me: “I knew he was good — I had no idea he was that good.” He really was, his…
Yesterday, Scotland made enormous strides towards implementing a drugs policy that is rooted in health and not criminalisation, doing so off the back of soaring drug deaths that have risen year on year for the past 8 years. Just 24 hours later, Sir Keir Starmer said that was “probably the right thing to do.” With…
Another week, another female victim of violence in our city; her body found in Kidbrooke, covered in autumn leaves as though a temporary shroud of foliage might lessen the indignity of being murdered.
With less than a week to go until the Labour party conference, we’re getting a clear sense of the issues that will be debated. This year, the movement for one important policy change has grown dramatically: the call for Labour to back proportional representation. This week we learnt that at least 144 constituency parties have…
How can a nation that – once independent – pledges to be progressive, small and European reconcile those values with the blatant, entrenched racism against the Irish and Catholic? It all happened very quickly. On the 29th of August, three Rangers fans were arrested for singing sectarian songs; on the 2nd of September, Nicola Sturgeon…
