Today a vice-principal I know says that around 75 per cent of the student discipline cases he is involved in concern a mobile phone. Phones in schools should have been banned years ago, and the policy should have been one dictated by the federal government, who could have allied it to finance. In fact, there was an idea at one moment that we might have to ask the public to exterminate all the cats in Britain. Breitbart has created a niche for itself as the home of the swivelled-eyed loons with its fiercely pro-Ukip editorial line. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. It opined that: Mr Corbyn has a formidable record fighting against racism and in speaking, It seems that Kate Forbes stance on same-sex marriage hasnt gone down too well with some of her more socially liberal backers. His body was then dumped in an unmarked grave which left his enemies free to spread malicious untruths about his two-and-a-half-year stint in office. Farewell then. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. Defence ministers clash in battle of the egos, Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader. Unfortunately for him he is followed to their room by Flay, Doctor Prunesquallor, and Titus and is discovered with the corpses. Steerpike enrages the manservant, who throws one of the Countess's precious white cats at the youth; Flay is subsequently banished. Donald Trump is in, Nikki Haley is getting ready, Joe Biden, Ding, ding, ding! By, Strikes. I demand the right to contact my child at any time, and especially in an emergency! they will say. Sharing traffic penalties with your missus reduces the official number of offences committed each year. Subscribe to leave a comment. Steerpike 'Korangate' and Britain's new blasphemy rules. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. They are less physically active and therefore fewer kilojoules are consumed, and less muscle tone achieved. In his usual polished tones, the Prime Minister told the Today programme that: Northern Ireland has this very special position where it has access to the UK market, has access, Another troubling story out of West Yorkshire. The incident, however, leaves Steerpike permanently scarred; his face now red and blotched. Its been quite the six months for the onetime favourite to succeed Boris Johnson. Why was EU chief due to meet King Charles? Matters are brought to a head when a huge rainstorm floods the castle, submerging the lower levels and forcing the inhabitants (and Steerpike) higher and higher. The Spectator Australia's Morning Double Shot delivers a hearty breakfast of news and views straight to your inbox, Weekly round up of the best Flat White blogs - delivered straight to your inbox, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP, How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave, Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide, Theres still a hint of life in the Tory party, The Windsor Framework isnt the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is. By sheer coincidence, Mr Skidmores forthcoming book, Bosworth, is to be published next year. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. His resultant vendetta against Steerpike becomes a key factor in Steerpike's eventual downfall. The Spectator magazine followed in the footsteps of The Telegraph this morning after it pinned the so-called Partygate scandal on Remainers.. The Sunday People yesterday splashed the news that the former Health Secretary has set up his own TV, Its Groundhog Day in Westminster. Talk about letting the cat out of the bag. Take the five MPs who, Its been a bit of a bad week for the British Museum. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Subscribe to leave a comment. And yes, I have read of those valiant institutions that are doing this, and students then buy a toy mobile to be locked up for the day or try similar dodges. 9:00 AM. The Steerpike persona on the Spectator was first set up to allow then-blogger-now-Sun-journo Harry Cole to file diary pieces for the mag. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Jamie Wallis, the Member, TheTelegraphhas got hold of a zinger of a private memo currently doing the rounds on Tory MPs WhatsApp groups. So it only seems, Theres been a sense of deja vu in Westminster in recent days, with a Tory leader under pressure on Europe, It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Its six weeks to go until voting closes for the Tory leadership and polls suggest that Liz Truss is the, Hasta la vista, baby Boris Johnson told the Commons at his final PMQs. Among the many descendants of the wonky-backed Plantagenet schemer is the current occupant of No. The result would be better learning, discipline, and friendship. In the books, Mervyn Peake describes his personality as follows: if ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. Who is to blame for this and what is to be done? The phone pestering, annoying, and interfering with others lives continues 24/7, although strangely parents often expect school to fix it. Dr Tom Lewis OAM taught in the high school and adult areas for over 20 years. Steerpike then insinuates himself into Barquentine's work, acting as apprentice and doing his best to make himself indispensable. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Increasingly, Kyiv seems, Ukraines drone war on Russia could backfire. If sibling Jo retains his Orpington seat in 2015, the Johnsons may become a larger faction in parliament than the Lib Dems. The Finance Minister, If we hadnt heard enough about the Dumb Prince and His Stupid Wife not Steerpikes words nowSouth Parkhas, Reading some of the tributes from English luvvies yesterday, you would have had no idea that Nicola Sturgeon was anything, Stop press: Fleet Street is officially full of sewage. [5] They also proposed that post-war readers were not prepared to fully appreciate the character upon his initial appearance. The key actors of various Brexit-related factions have been out all over the airwaves in recent days. Nadhim Zahawi. His face was pale like clay and save for his eyes, mask-like. Students should not have the phone on their person, nor in their bag, or in their locker, in every school, every day. Talking of stricken grandees suffering from curvature of the truth, poor old Chris Huhne has been so busy writing letters of resignation that he hasnt had time to amend his website. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. What a win for all that would be. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Five things weve learned from Hancocks lockdown files, Williamson and Hancocks schools battle revealed, Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie deux, The importance of exposing Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages. Sourdust, the Master of Ritual, dies and Steerpike hopes to take his place, but like so many offices in the castle the position is hereditary and is succeeded by Sourdust's son Barquentine, a crippled and fiercely traditional man. [citation needed]. Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories based on a cache of Matt Hancocks WhatsApps during the Covid pandemic. Character [ edit] Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an anti-hero; the first book for example is largely focused on him, only covering the first year of the eponymous hero Titus 's life. Ancient and modern. Europe Fact check: New York Times's London foodie 'knowledge' You'd think they would have learned after last time By Steerpike Fact check: New York Times' 'Austerity Britain' report Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike, Vladimir Putin has sold his Ukrainian war to the Russian people by trying to find the sweet spot between existential threat and reassuring distance: the Russian president portrays the conflict as a struggle to preserve the nation from a hostile West and its Ukrainian proxy, but one fought safely outside its borders. Its a promise he has heroically fulfilled. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. 25 February 2023. Inflation. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Jacqui Smith, the former Home Secretary, popped up on Politics Live to talk about the important of civility in public life. It, Tuning into Radio 4 today, Mr S was surprised to hear a well-spoken but unlikely voice making the case for membership of the single market. Its rumoured that he is off to join the Ukip press team but only time will tell. Is Keir trolling Boris with his next hire? Nadhim Zahawi. Is Rishi Sunaks Brexit deal all its cracked up to be? The federal government, like everyone involved in education, has lived through the growing disaster of phones in schools and has done nothing about it for decades. The great villain of Covid is China. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.[1]. His latest wheeze is to commission a spanking new office in Qatar where non-violent Islamists can engage in dialogue with the Afghan High Peace Council. Shes facing questions, Angela Rayner caused a bit of a stir a few weeks ago when she rocked up at the Glyndebourne opera, Oh dear. But that doesnt stop us letting out a collective groan when we see the same loopy opinions, Just because Boris Johnson has gone, dont expect the legal fines for Tories to go away. Still, its cheaper than placing an advert in the Bookseller. Spectator.co.uk; Menu; Register Log in. Political instability. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike Share Topics. Get onto this now state and federal governments! Why did Humza Yousaf miss the vote on gay marriage? Oakeshott: So youre think of making it more difficult? The ageing rocker, who congratulated Boris, Oh dear. Could Meghan and Harrys eviction overshadow the coronation? Peter Jones [Getty Images] Peter Jones. Steerpike is a fictional character in Mervyn Peake's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast. Just how many hours, let alone days, would the government have lasted if that was the case? That clearly wasnt the case. Why was EU chief due to meet King Charles? The school buses were everywhere in my suburb. But dont the states control education? For amusement I did a rough calculation of how many of the students waiting at bus stops, or walking to them, had their heads down, immersed in a mobile phone screen. Wanted: a chief of staff for Sir Keir. Which world leader has set himself the silliest ambition in retirement? Four pupils are reported to have been suspended from Wakefields Kettlethorpe High School after a copy of the Quran was scuffed by students on Wednesday. Donald Trump is in, Nikki Haley is getting ready, Joe Biden, Ding, ding, ding! The paper splashes on claims that Matt Hancock as Health Secretary fought a rearguard action to shut down the nations schools against the efforts of Sir Gavin Williamson, who held the Education brief, Its not a great time to be a friend of Matt Hancock, knowing that any moment the Telegraph might splash the contents of your private WhatsApp conversations. If left unchecked this is the sort of behaviour that is seen in schools in every recess, lunchtime, and unfortunately between high school lessons, when students are given basically a minute or so to get to the next class. Steerpike jumps from the nearest window into the moat below and drowns Barquentine. Popular Toi Staff Emanuel Fabian Jacob Magid Lazar Berman Luke Tress Gideon Levy Ash Obel Michael Bachner Jeremy Sharon Judah Ari Gross Jackie Hajdenberg Agencies Andrew Lapin Scott Ritter Sharon Wrobel Carrie Keller-Lynn Ron Kampeas Amy Spiro Nathan Jeffay Haviv Rettig Gur Jessica Steinberg Michael Horovitz Muhammad Hussein Ramona Wadi Jon Gambrell Sue Surkes David Horovitz Bradley . A meeting between the head teacher and community leaders was called on Friday, with a West Yorkshire police officer even in attendance. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike Yesterday 27. It seems bumbling Uncle Joe has done it again. This ignores decades of the ability of a school office to take a message, and in an emergency multiple messages from scores of students hardly help a situation. Brendan O'Neill. 10. Mobile phone policy has been left to the states, and there the rot set in, particularly and especially as the state education authorities were notoriously lax on it. Steerpike first appears as a youth of seventeen years with an unclear past, working in Gormenghast's Great Kitchen under the chef Abiatha Swelter, whom he hates. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Still, good old Jim Bethell a veteran of the Ministry of Sound and the Department of Health was wheeled out to defend him tonight. Subscribe to leave a comment. But the case of the Scottish double rapist Isla Bryson/Adam Graham has loosened, Those cunning geniuses at SNP HQ have done it again. Political instability. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. Our writers hold no party line; their only allegiance is to clarity of thought, elegance of expression and independence of opinion. Share This. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. His behaviour at this point shows evident signs of madness, in stark contrast to the cool and rational mastermind he once was. Its day two of the revelations from the Telegraphs lockdown files and todays chosen battlefield is the school playground. Eventually saner thinking prevailed in the light of students competing ferociously on the grounds of fashion, and also as uniforms are a useful deterrent to would-be offenders coming onto school property. Some 100,000 messages were handed to the newspaper by the co-author of his diaries Isabel Oakeshott. There would be less harassment, misbehaviour, and time-wasting. Message discipline was rigid; disputes played out privately, away from the cameras. Within 24 hours of announcing her candidacy, the Finance Secretarys campaign has actually gone backwards, managing to lose four MSPs following an interview in which she said that she would not have supported, Williamson and Hancocks schools battle revealed, Watch: ministers considered exterminating all cats in Covid. Steerpike of course realizes that they must have died, but it is only after several years as Master of Ritual that he finds time to bother to confirm their deaths (during which time, among other things, he attempts to woo Fuchsia). Richard III fever strikes. More than 50 Tory MPs have publicly called for him to, Has Nadhim Zahawi turned on Boris Johnson, just 24 hours after he was promoted to Chancellor? Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease. Ancient and modern. The great villain of Covid is China. Spectator: Steerpike on how South Park incinerated Harry and Meghan Victory At Sea - #9/26 - Sea and Sand talkTV: Mike Graham: Plank of the Week with Kevin O'Sullivan, Peter Bleksley, Candice Holdsworth, Amanda Devlin - 10/02/2023 GBNews: Nurse 'bullied and suspended from NHS course' after saying 'being white doesn't make you racist' We would have been even more appalled if we had been told these new devices could access extreme pornography, find all sorts of dangerous information an incident a few years later saw a student build a pipe bomb and bring it to school and be linked to a system of social media that seems designed to harass other students. Having cursed the Virgin Orbit mission by, Australia's best political analysis - straight to your inbox, The Spectator Australia's Morning Double Shot delivers a hearty breakfast of news and views straight to your inbox, Weekly round up of the best Flat White blogs - delivered straight to your inbox, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London, SW1H 9HP. In the red corner, its the menacing goons of Moscows Red Square. He persuades them to set fire to Sepulchrave's Library and uses the circumstances to play the hero in rescuing those trapped inside (including all the surviving members of the House of Groan). The, Boris, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol all are dominating the news agenda yet again. Boris, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol all are dominating the news agenda yet again. Flicking through the papers this morning, Steerpike was intrigued to see, It seems the days of ex-prime ministers going quietly into the sunset of retirement are well and truly dead. Theresa May has been totting up her thousands in speaking fees while Boris, Is there anyone left who likes Prince Harry? Then just 1 a week for full website and app access. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike, Ding, ding, ding! Its not a great time to be a friend of Matt Hancock, knowing that any moment the Telegraph might splash the contents of your private WhatsApp conversations. Although he evades the Countess's forces, Titus, who blamed Steerpike for his sister's death, eventually finds and kills him. Students are often reported as not engaging in play with ball games and the like. Flicking through the papers this morning, Steerpike was intrigued to see, It seems the days of ex-prime ministers going quietly into the sunset of retirement are well and truly dead. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Back in November 2013, the now-favourite to succeed Nicola Sturgeon was a junior minister for External Affairs. Theresa May has been totting up her thousands in speaking fees while Boris, Is there anyone left who likes Prince Harry? He told Channel 4: What we shouldnt forget is how little we understood about this disease. Steerpike nearly loses his own life in the process, but uses this to his advantage, claiming that the jump into the moat was a desperate attempt to save his master from the fire. Will Labour suspend the Quran-gate councillor? Watch: ministers considered exterminating all cats in Covid, Williamson and Hancocks schools battle revealed, Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie deux, The importance of exposing Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages. Around 50 per cent was the answer. The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association boasts 180 branches around, Rod Stewart has been a Conservative supporter for some time but no longer. Inflation. Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader, Kate Forbes: Im against gay marriage and self-ID, Trump denounces failed woke extremist Sturgeon, Boris cashes in with 2.5 million pay-day, Could Boris Johnson run for president? Steerpike is a fictional character in Mervyn Peake 's novels Titus Groan and Gormenghast . Steerpike escapes through the window and climbs over the vast roofscape of Gormenghast, spending the night in a great stone square, before arriving by accident in the attic of Fuchsia, daughter to the Earl of Gormenghast. Each one costs the taxpayer about 300 smackers. Two weeks ago the Westminster team delivered the sporting equivalent of a Section 35 order, when they beat their Holyrood equivalent 17-10 in a feisty match that saw multiple yellow cards awarded for the first time in a Commons, Some late-night Friday drama in the West Midlands. Andrea Riseborough, who played Margaret Thatcher in the TV film The Long Walk To Finchley, has spread the word that her subject hadpsychopathic tendencies. A national policy should have been set down. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader column on Labour and antisemitism in which the bastion of right-on liberalism opined on the partys record under Jeremy Corbyn. Greetings! announces the homepage of Eastleighs own Stirling Moss. At approximately this time the Twins die of starvation in their remote room; locked away they were completely dependent on Steerpike for supplies, but he ceased to visit them when they attempted to kill him and escape. 10s backside. And a flow-on effect is there is much lateness to lessons another in the list of discipline offences to burden teachers lives. Its all kicking off in the Tory party at present. We look forward to the Spectator correcting its story. The Spectator Australia's Morning Double Shot delivers a hearty breakfast of news and views . The fire and injury also appears to cause changes in his personality, namely a distinct fear of fire and an increasing loss of rationality. Clearly Ms Riseborough is more than just an excellent actress. They said: So Mr S was surprised to learnthat despite losing his job in politics, Kassam has not lost any political sway. She is the chair of trustees for the Jo Cox Foundation, which has today launched a civility commission to crack down on abuse in public life. He is discovered by the chief retainer of the castle, Flay, and locked in a small room. Allies suggest Hancock is planning a series of 'serious documentaries' on assisted dying and dyslexia when he stands down as an MP at the next election. This latest wheeze, A rich irony today on the BBC. [3][4], The Daily Telegraph has described Steerpike as one of the greatest villains in English literature. Steerpike uses his charm and fast tongue to insinuate himself with the castle's physician Dr Prunesquallor, and acts for a time as his apprentice. Boris: Tories must unite Steerpike 11 January 2023 7:55 pm To the Carlton Club, that Palladian monument to power. Ban the journalists. Identity politics looks a lot like the caste . The selection committee of the Stafford Conservative Association have tonight passed a motion to prevent incumbent MP Theo Clarke from being their candidate next time around. Twitter; Facebook; LinkedIn; Email; In ad 115 Antioch (Antakya) was destroyed, as today, by a huge earthquake, described dramatically by a historian 100 years . Farewell then. It was therefore slightly ironic that the onetime Labour MP chose to exhibit less than perfect standards when debating with her fellow panellist Isabel Oakeshott the merits of Rishi Sunaks Windsor Framework. Last night it hosted the unveiling of Boris Johnson's new portrait, US edition of the world's oldest magazine. Whether its their ongoing Brexit coverage, mistaking a newspaper sketch writers joke about the French for Brexit bias or attempting to cash in with a $6,000 Brexit tour of London, the American papers gloomy editorial team tend [], Fact check: New York Times Austerity Britain report, Fact check: New York Timess London foodie knowledge. Below are some of the stand out, Is even the BBC starting to accept reality on questions of sex and gender? A lovely photo of Mr Huhne beams out over a list of Lib Dem policies beginning with a pledge to cut crime. When he considers the time ripe, he attempts to kill Barquentine by fire, but botches the attempt, underestimating the seemingly frail and disabled old man. Popular Toi Staff Emanuel Fabian Jacob Magid Lazar Berman Luke Tress Gideon Levy Ash Obel Michael Bachner Jeremy Sharon Judah Ari Gross Jackie Hajdenberg Agencies Andrew Lapin Scott Ritter Sharon Wrobel Carrie Keller-Lynn Ron Kampeas Amy Spiro Nathan Jeffay Haviv Rettig Gur Jessica Steinberg Michael Horovitz Muhammad Hussein Ramona Wadi Jon Gambrell Sue Surkes David Horovitz Bradley . Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. High temperatures forced staff to close the site, Youre the American president on a visit toformer coal plant in Massachusetts. And we now learn from archaeologists that he was killed by a metal spike plunged into the rear of his skull while he wasnt looking. Although aflame and dying, Barquentine clings to Steerpike in an attempt to take his murderer with him. During this period, Steerpike unintentionally causes the removal of the Earl's manservant, Mr. Flay, who had always been suspicious of him. Their unity was unshakeable, its leader unquestioned. The social web that links The Spectator to the heart of the Tory cabinet Connections between a magazine and the cabinet have rarely been so interlinked, with a former editor as the helm, a Spectator spouse as a senior political strategist and the chancellor as the political editor's best man - how is The Speccie wielding its influence? [6], "Best sci-fi and fantasy novels of all time", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steerpike&oldid=1135956674, Kitchen boy, doctor's apprentice, secretary's assistant, secretary, This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 22:24. Thirty years ago I was teaching in a high school when a student brought in a very early mobile phone. Who, among our bien-pensant film-making elite, could resist offering a role to the author of such a fashionable denunciation? Only 1 a week after your trial. Brilliant! Both men serve in posts at the Ministry of Defence: Wallace as Secretary of State and Mercer in a, It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Unlimited access to the Spectator website and app. And in the blue corner,, One mans loss is another mans gain and few know that maxim better than Conservative MPs. His popularity is plunging, his allies have turned on him and, Ah, the New York Times. Increasingly, Kyiv seems, Ukraines drone war on Russia could backfire, Watch: ministers considered exterminating all cats in Covid. "Members of Rosie Duffield's own party joined in unison with the SNP to express their displeasure at her words Steerpike https://t.co/0Dnw2GTwNX" Despite the establishment magazine not making any claims of editorialinfluence over the list last year, when 2014s publisher, The Times, saw its associate editor Daniel Finkelstein comein at number 31, the magazine has published an anonymous blog entitled: Raheem Kassam [Breitbart London Editor in Chief] is more influential than ever (according to website he edits). After the Cabinet departures of Rishi Sunak and, Rishi Sunak has joined Sajid Javid in resigning from the cabinet in a major blow to Boris Johnsons hopes of, Boris Johnson has more lives than a cat but is the reign of the world king finally coming to an, Pride month means only one thing: the chance for corporations to embarrass themselves with the latest right-on social media stunt., Oh dear. Frances newest import, David Beckham, announces that hell give away his entire footballingincome to a childrens charity. Students plot extreme methods of basically verbally and visually assaulting their schoolmates. This often leads to actual literal assault, sometimes carried out on the school grounds. For years now, the worlds worst newspaper has painted a grim picture of Britain as, To the Carlton Club, that Palladian monument to power. Is Boris Johnsons bid to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol over before it really began? What they should have done was to lay down the law. What happened to lockdowns 40,000 missed cancers? Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. Members of the parliamentary, So. He, Congratulations must go to Alan Cumming who has today worked out what the acronym OBE stands for a mere, A big house, Californian sunshine, oodles of dosh and, of course, priceless privacy life in Montecito must be pretty, A most undiplomatic row has engulfed one of Westminsters most prestigious groups. The exchange went thus: Smith: We were told that this was all sorted, that we were now in the sort of open waters of Brexit. Its been a pretty miserable few months in Britain but some in government are hoping, The 2024 race for the White House is on. By, Strikes. Tobias Ellwood stripped of the whip Not Matt Hancock. If someone had forecast that 30 years later every student would have one of these devices in their pocket we would have been aghast. Grandees attack the Guardian over its Corbyn leader, Kate Forbes: Im against gay marriage and self-ID, Trump denounces failed woke extremist Sturgeon, Boris cashes in with 2.5 million pay-day, Could Boris Johnson run for president? Increasingly, Kyiv seems, Ukraines drone war on Russia could backfire. Accusations! The race to replace her, With inflation and strikes gripping the nation, it seems that the public are not in a generous mood when it comes to the perks afforded to our political class. Only 1 a week after your trial. I dont rule it out, Boris battles the Kremlin over Putin threats, Hong Kong row embroils Commonwealth group, Truss and Kwarteng start their own companies, Even Irans mullahs have turned on Prince Harry, Shock as the New York Times praises Britain, Boris Johnson falls victim to Grant Shapps photoshop fail, How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave, Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide. Daves kingly forebearwas notorious forfailing to contain squabbles between his alliesand colleagues. 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