The big lessons from Super Tuesday
What’s next for Nikki Haley, Biden’s ‘uncommitted’ threat & more
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Wednesday
Monday
Nikki Haley dances on her own grave
Plus: SCOTUS rules on Trump ballot access & Super Tuesday preview
Friday
Trump and Biden’s border battle
Plus: Media facing mass layoffs & Haley visits DC
Thursday
Letters: Rod Liddle is on the side of experts
From our UK edition
Work to do Sir: I agree with Kate Andrews’s diagnosis: the nation’s mental health is appalling and a major barrier to our economic prosperity (‘Sick list’, 24 February). I agree with her criticism of the treatment offered by the health service: we are failing to restore people to working health. Antidepressants are handed out like
2640: Double entry – solution
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The unclued lights each contain a DOUBLE letter in the middle. First prize Sue Dyson, Poynton, Stockport, Cheshire Runners-up Geoff Hollas, London W12; Gill Wayne, London SW9
Which year was the worst for strikes?
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Populist roots Where did the term ‘populist’ come from? The original Populist party grew out of the Farmers’ Alliance, a movement set up to fight corporate interests in the US in the 1880s. It then joined with other minor parties to fight the 1892 presidential election under the Populist banner. Its candidate James B. Weaver
Net-zero targets have hamstrung British prosperity
From our UK edition
Britain’s ‘net-zero economy’ is booming, creating more better-paid jobs than any other sector, but it is all being put at risk by the government’s reversal on policies on electric vehicles and heat pumps. That, at any rate, is what the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) wants us
Portrait of the week: Anderson’s outburst and Biden’s ceasefire prediction
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Home Lee Anderson, a former Conservative party deputy chairman, had the whip withdrawn after responding to an article by Suella Braverman that said: ‘The Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now.’ He said: ‘I don’t actually believe that the Islamists have got control of our country, but what I do believe is
Wednesday
Hunter’s big day in Congress
Plus: McConnell steps down
Monday
Ronna McDaniel hits the eject button
Plus: Hunter Biden tells all about his addiction
Friday
Trump’s unlikely ally in the NYC case
Plus: Will Nikki Haley and Dean Phillips team up to take out the gerontocracy?
Thursday
Letters: Rishi’s ‘road tour’ is not a good idea
From our UK edition
Navy to the fore Sir: In Eliot Wilson’s stimulating article highlighting the lack of capability within our armed forces (‘Losing battle’, 17 February), he comments on the reduced size of the army and the fact that it would be pressed to contribute a brigade to any conflict in the near future. This reminded me of
Does any country allow children to vote?
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Baby voters The Lib Dem Polly Mackenzie proposed giving people the right to vote from birth, with a proxy vote going to the under-tens. Does any country allow children to vote? – No country has a voting age lower than 16, although Iran allowed 15-year-olds to vote until 2007. Those countries that do allow 16-
2639: Spelling the End – solution
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Prospero said ‘I’ll drown my book’ (The Tempest 5.1.56), illustrated by three volumes at the bottom of lake. First prize Eleanor Morrall, Coseley, West Midlands Runners-up Peter Marginson, Wilmslow, Cheshire; Roger Sherman, Richmond, Surrey
Portrait of the week: Labour wins by-elections, Navalny dies and Eiffel Tower closes
From our UK edition
Home Labour called for an ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza for the first time since the attack by Hamas in October. Earlier, at a Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow, Sir Keir Starmer said that a ‘ceasefire that lasts’ must ‘happen now’. The Prince of Wales called for an end to the fighting and the release
Citizens’ assemblies are a dreadful idea
From our UK edition
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party is a government-in-waiting desperately searching for ideas. It says much about the leader of the opposition that arguably the biggest proposal he’s put forward comes not from him but from his chief of staff, Sue Gray. She, it seems, is enthused about the idea of citizens’ assemblies, and wants more
Wednesday
Trump backs the GOP establishment
Plus: Biden subverts SCOTUS with student debt forgiveness
Punch and Judy Revisited
From our UK edition
for Anna Punch has made up with Judy and put his big stick away. He’s happy to cuddle the baby. He’s a new man as from today. A husband on best behaviour. A loving father restored. But preferring him as raver the audience feels cheated and bored. Bring back the Judge and the gallows the
Friday
Trump hit with mega fine in fraud case
Plus: GOP continues impeachment despite indictment of anti-Biden source
Thursday
Letters: no wonder Gen Z-ers don’t want to fight
From our UK edition
The many not the few Sir: Your leading article (‘The people problem’, 3 February) fails to get to the heart of this issue. Yes, more needs to be done to reform welfare to encourage people back to work. But nowhere do you mention the need for employers to be more open-minded in their recruitment. There
