On Coffee House Shots: Deputy and US editor Freddy Gray joins the podcast to explain what’s really happening in Washington and why he believes the ‘special relationship’ may be over – and not coming back.
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Perhaps Kemi Badenoch should reassess whether she should fight so hard to keep Lam in the Tory tent.
✍️ William Atkinson
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If it makes highbrow programmes, the BBC worries it is betraying its obligation to be mainstream. But, in fact, we all like to be talked up to, whatever our background.
✍️ Harry Mount
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In 1989, as tanks rolled into central Beijing to crush the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square, Australia’s then prime minister, Bob Hawke, spontaneously offered asylum to all Chinese citizens who happened to be in Australia.
✍️ Terry Barnes
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Of all the parties watching the chaos in the Middle East unfold, one should be rubbing its hands together with particular satisfaction.
✍️ Alexander Kolyandr
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In the years when the Greens cared more about hedgehogs than Hamas, those opposed to military action made the Lib Dems their political home.
✍️ Charlotte Henry
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The war in Iran has entered its second week. Despite constant American and Israeli bombardment and heavy losses on the Iranian side, with much of the leadership killed, the regime in Tehran is shaken but still stands.
✍️ Daniel Thorpe
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When the Alternative for Germany (AfD) condemned America’s strikes against the Iranian regime last week, the reaction in Washington must have been one of genuine confusion.
✍️ Henry Donovan
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Under normal circumstances, King Charles’s message to the Commonwealth would be a carefully crafted and anodyne series of platitudes, designed for little more than to fulfil its brief and to keep the other Commonwealth leaders happy.
✍️ Alexander Larman
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Putin has his own delicate relationship with the US to preserve as he walks tightrope between refusing to make concessions in Ukraine while at the same time not provoking Trump’s anger.
✍️ Owen Matthews
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The Islamist groups who campaigned for the definition – with an explicit agenda of suppressing criticism of themselves – haven’t got all they wanted yet.
✍️ Andrew Gilligan
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Far from signalling an end to the conflict, the steady tempo of attacks suggests the campaign against Iran is entering a sustained phase rather than drawing to a close.
✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti
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In the latest conflict, Iranian drones have been the largest danger to the Gulf, especially where there are not enough air defences.
✍️ Seth J. Frantzman
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Donald Trump, on Truth Social, said we should not worry and that normal prices will return soon. If they don’t, Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have cause to be genuinely fearful.
✍️ Michael Simmons
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The enormous fun of Crufts has reminded us that Britain is a nation of dog lovers. Or maybe we’re kidding ourselves?
✍️ Gareth Roberts
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The US and Israel rapidly established air superiority over Iran in the first days of the war now under way in the Middle East. Regimes, however, cannot be destroyed from the air.
✍️ Jonathan Spyer
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Amid growing uncertainty caused by the US-Israel offensive against Iran and surging gas prices, Germany had its first major election of the year yesterday, with the new state parliament of Baden-Württemberg elected.
✍️ Constantin Eckner
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It is a difficult time to be a Labour MP. With the Greens on the left and Reform on the right, many are contemplating an electoral pasting in their patches come May.
✍️ Steerpike
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Gren’s cartoon depicted a man with his trousers around his ankles in a phone box, while behind him you could just see a woman’s legs, supine, emerging from a bush. The man was saying: “Hallo? Rape Advice Centre? What do I do next?”
✍️ Rod Liddle
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'Listen to this drivel’ is not the combination of words a radio presenter longs to see in reference to their exertions, but it’s what The Spectator Associate Editor Damian Thompson had to say about me on X recently.
✍️ Georgia Mann-Smith
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Mojtaba represents continuity in ensuring his father’s bloodthirsty legacy lives on. His appointment being aggressively pushed by elements of the IRGC may make him beholden to them.
✍️ Jason Brodsky
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Picture Gerry Adams in a dimly lit courtroom, one hand raised in statesmanlike denial, the other twitching like Dr. Strangelove’s infamous Nazi salute, struggling to contain the contradictions of his many roles. Peacemaker? Politician?
✍️ Rory Hanrahan
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Already there are reports of tens of thousands of layoffs in 2025 attributed to AI anticipation. But the emerging evidence suggests a far more nuanced reality.
✍️ Eamon Butler
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As the war continues, the Iranian regime has pressed ahead with appointing its new Supreme Leader.
✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti
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The social media video with which the White House has promoted its attack on Iran is, even by the standards we’ve come to expect from the Trump administration, grotesque on a level that still manages to be flabbergasting.
✍️ Sam Leith
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The graduate benefit is not what it was
✍️ James Kirkup
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Crufts holds the key to the British psyche
✍️ Chas Newkey-Burden
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‘All cultures are rooted in magic’
✍️ Kanika Sharma interviews Kiran Desai
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Brutalism is beautiful
✍️ Sebastian Milbank
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Never has North Korea felt more smug about its nuclear weapons
✍️ Edward Howell
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