Trump holds first Cabinet meeting
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Plus: Mike Johnson pulls rabbit out of hat…again
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Monday
DoGE’s Office Space efforts delayed by some
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Plus: Monsieur Macron goes to Washington
Friday
The tale of two budget bills continues
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Plus: Mitch jets out
Thursday
Letters: The brilliant uselessness of art
Wonderfully useless Sir: Michael Simmons overlooks some scandalous examples of frivolous funding right under his nose (‘Waste land’, 15 February). A few minutes from our offices, there are several vast buildings, all lavishly subsidised by the taxpayer, whose sole purpose is to allow hordes of strangers to stare at rectangular sheets of fabric on which
How has Brexit affected ferry travel?
Meeting expectations Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had a telephone call prior to US and Russian officials meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was the first time the US and Russian leaders had spoken in three years. How often did US and Soviet leaders meet during the Cold War? — After Harry S. Truman met Josef
2688: 4 + 4 = 8 - solution
The unclued four-letter solutions are paired, one inside the other, to yield the four unclued 8-letter words: 37 ÷ 19 = 3, 15 ÷ 6 = 23, 21 ÷ 8 = 40 and 31D ÷ 38 = 44. First prize R.A. Towle, Ilkeston, Derbyshire Runners-up R.B. Briercliffe, Onchan, Isle of Man; Roger Cairns, Chalfont Heights,
Who lost Ukraine?
In the America of the 1950s, one question dominated foreign policy: ‘Who lost China?’ The Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War and the defeat of America’s ally, the Kuomintang regime, provoked agonised debate about the principles that should guide statecraft – the balance between containment and pushback, the relative importance of winning hearts and
Portrait of the week: US and Russia talk, Chiltern Firehouse burns and Duchess of Sussex rebrands
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said that, to guarantee the security of Ukraine, he was ‘ready and willing’ to put ‘our own troops on the ground if necessary. I do not say that lightly’. Parliament would be allowed a vote on such a deployment, the government said. Earlier, Sir Keir took an unannounced
Wednesday
Bidenbucks out, DoGEbucks in?
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Plus: Is this the end of the line for Eric Adams?
Monday
This month in culture: March 2025
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What to watch this March
Friday
The many legal challenges to Trump’s Executive Orders
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Plus: Controversial cabinet picks confirmed
Thursday
Letters: The real value of independent schools
Strength of service Sir: Matthew Lynn and Steven Bailey (Letters, 1 February) are quite wrong to deplore the decline of Britain as a manufacturing nation. Manufacturing – especially of the heavy sort – is best suited to a country with plenty of space, little regulation, cheap energy and cheap non-unionised labour. That was once the
Goodbye Grenfell: what became of other notorious addresses?
Addressing the past Angela Rayner announced that Grenfell Tower will be demolished. What happened to Britain’s other notorious addresses? — 10 Rillington Place: scene of the murders for which Timothy Evans and John Christie were hanged in the 1950s (although many believe that Evans was innocent of the murder of his wife). The street was
The Spectator fights back against government excess
Britons used to be able to rely on their parliament to safeguard liberty and their wallets. Those who were sent to the House of Commons came not as petitioners for a larger government and greater state expenditure but as guardians of individual freedom and defenders of private property. It was self-evident to them that those
Portrait of the week: Andrew Gwynne sacked, Trump saves Prince Harry and a £30m refund over moths
Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a constituent’s hoped-for death, and about Diane Abbott and Angela Rayner. Oliver Ryan, a member of the WhatsApp group where the jokes were shared, had the Labour whip removed and 11 councillors were suspended from the
2687: Up in arms - solution
The unclued lights are terms in heraldry. First prize A.J. Mott, Haslemere, Surrey Runners-up Edward Hossack, London SW17; Elizabeth Feinberg, Rancho Mirage, CA
Wednesday
Why DoGE should scrap the F-35
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Plus: Russia releases American detainee and Gabbard clears confirmation
Monday
Trump announces steel tariffs
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Plus: Five cabinet nominees advance
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Friday
What’s next for DoGE fever?
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Plus: Trump plans more tariffs
