37 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Like a clown running into a minefield, Musk threw caution to the wind, but he's right

When I boarded a flight for New York on Thursday, Donald Trump and Elon Musk were still sticking to the script: though the dizzy days of their bromance might be over, the separation was amicable.

Politics

6 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer is shifting Leftwards to save his own skin. And that means one thing: yet more tax rises are coming our way...

I'm a man without conviction, I'm a man who doesn't know,' sang Culture Club's Boy George in his huge 1980s hit Karma Chameleon. It could be Keir Starmer's theme song.

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9 d. ago China hails Keir Starmer's surrender of the Chagos Islands to leave PM facing furious demands to apologise for 'peddling lies' over his deal

After he signed the agreement to hand over sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius last week, Sir Keir Starmer claimed that Russia, China, Iran were opposed to the deal.

Economics

9 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: Putin just humiliated Trump. But was it a trap? There are White House whispers about what's coming next

It's taken long enough but Donald Trump is at last rethinking his benign view of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

Politics

1 week ago ANDREW NEIL: Rachel Reeves has condemned us to a doom loop of economic despair. Brace yourself for a £30BILLION tax raid

Mark my words: there will be tax rises in the autumn. Big ones. Perhaps not quite as big as £40billion. But pretty hefty nonetheless.

Economics

2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: In 55 years of covering politics, I've never accused any UK government of routinely telling untruths. But Starmer & Co have taken lying and gaslighting to a deplorable level

How can you tell when politicians are lying? Their lips are moving. It's a hoary old joke but it can still be guaranteed to raise a rueful chuckle among British voters disillusioned with the political process.

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2 w. ago Tony Bloom has Hearts title blueprint in place as Andrew McKinlay reveals why Neil Critchley failed

Bloom has made a formal offer of just under £10m to acquire a 29 per cent stake in the Tynecastle club

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2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: The rush to throw in our lot with Brussels is unfathomable. If this deal is the shape of things to come we are truly doomed..

It's a pretty good deal, alright - for the European Union. What crumbs did we gratefully accept in return?

Politics

3 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: Donald Trump's 'bromance diplomacy' in the Middle East has achieved more in a few days than the conventional approach has in decades

Call it diplomacy by bromance. Donald Trump deployed it in the Middle East this week and made more progress in a few days than conventional diplomacy has made in decades.

Politics

4 w. ago China, Russia, Iran, North Korea... The terrifying threat of the alliance of autocrats now menacing us seems utterly lost on Europe's naive leaders: ANDREW NEIL

There was a gathering of the ghouls in Moscow yesterday as Russia held its own commemoration of the end of the Second World War, bringing to life the image of an alliance of autocrats taking shape.

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