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A young lady approached me at The Camden Market Free Art Man display a few weeks ago and asked if I’d write something in her notebook. She asked me to put one piece of advice for the reader that I thought

Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers must

Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is behaving as though this

Writing in The Times, David Smith looks at the British economy and finds it standing up rather well. The next quarterly growth figures wouldn't match the brisk 0.6% of the first quarter, he predicted,

Ciao Mitici! A Londra un guasto informatico ha lasciato per ore centinaia di persone senza accesso ai propri soldi, con file interminabili fuori dalle filiali. In Italia questo tipo di disagio, per tanti,

Tonight’s video is of paintings done in the last couple of days. Oil on canvas, all destined for my online shops. The goal is to have 500 artworks in each of my two shops within six months. Currently,

Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for barely a month and has already reached for the policy that has destroyed more political careers than any other. A National Care Service. Free at the point of use.

So I put my August running stats into Claude and it came back and told me my Park Runs are too fast to be proper 'base' runs. My other runs are all fine - being mid 130s for the runs, but with the Park

There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, that we

The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning objections,

Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. A record that keeps needing

There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water supply...

There is a particular kind of latecomer who is not chaotic but precise. Not vaguely late — exactly late. A quarter of an hour, every single time, as though they had set an alarm to guarantee it. I have

Walk down almost any English high street outside the prosperous south and you'll get the same experience... a vape shop, a barber, three charity shops, a Greggs, and a long stretch of shuttered frontage

I've just been plodding along this last week, building up that base! So just three short easy runs... 17 August... Headed out to the local park for an Octopus session, no point doing these on the track,

Ministers of every party enjoy telling us that Britain is a leading digital economy. The claim is usually made from a stage, indoors, on wifi. Try making it from the 14:37 to Exeter, somewhere around Taunton,

Hi Everyone, The level of incompetence within Government appears to be staggeringly high. Almost everything they do fails or backfires. Their actions typically make the problems worse or create even more

Every few years, when turnout disappoints, somebody dusts off the Australian solution. Make voting compulsory, fine the refuseniks a tenner, and watch democratic legitimacy come flooding back. With Andy

There's a particular sort of shop you'll recognise instantly on any British high street in 2026. The lighting is aggressive. The window display is three shelves of neon liquid and a life-sized Grinch.