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June 11, 2016, 3:24 AM IST
Is it the beginning of the end for Boris Johnson? In what is being described as the nastiest TV debate ever, his conservative colleague, energy secretary (minister) Angela Rudd described Boris as “the life and…
June 11, 2016, 3:24 AM IST
June 1, 2016, 6:33 AM IST
This is still not the end game. Last week, the Tata Steel sell-off deadline for its British steelworks came and, well, sort of went. As far as we know, from about seven bidders Tata admitted…
June 1, 2016, 6:33 AM IST
May 18, 2016, 4:42 AM IST
Now that Sadiq Khan is safely ensconced in City Hall as mayor of London, the focus shifts to the next big vote: Britain’s referendum to stay or leave the European Union (EU), widely known as…
May 18, 2016, 4:42 AM IST
May 4, 2016, 3:10 AM IST
I could be writing about lots of very important things, like the Brexit battle now heating up. Or London’s mayoral elections due this week. Or even Princess Charlotte turning one. But, sigh. Unless there was…
May 4, 2016, 3:10 AM IST
May 3, 2016, 3:34 AM IST
In a historic win, Leicester City won the English Premier League Championship late Monday night, as closest rival Tottenham Spurs was held to a 2-2 draw by Chelsea. Leicester City, according the League tables is…
May 3, 2016, 3:34 AM IST
April 20, 2016, 6:42 AM IST
Suddenly, London’s almost 500,000 British Asians are in the limelight. As London’s mayoral campaign gets close to the polls, Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith’s campaign team has been sending fliers to voters in suburbs with Indian-sounding…
April 20, 2016, 6:42 AM IST
April 16, 2016, 5:43 AM IST
Later this week, Queen Elizabeth II, already the longest-reigning British monarch in history, turns 90. Despite how desperately the British cosmopolitan classes prefer to downplay it, nobody can touch the Queen for celebrity value. The…
April 16, 2016, 5:43 AM IST
April 6, 2016, 6:59 AM IST
Tata’s decision to finally exit the steel industry in Britain has managed to rip the mask off a deep malaise in the British industrial policy. It has also exposed a permanent fault in the current…
April 6, 2016, 6:59 AM IST
February 25, 2016, 7:25 AM IST
Boris, Dear Mussy Head This is an open letter to Boris Johnson, who claims he has Indian connections because his wife’s mother is Indian. Yes, dear, you do look good in a turban and achkan…
February 25, 2016, 7:25 AM IST
February 18, 2016, 2:12 AM IST
It’s official now. Britain is apparently a nation of moaners, or whingers, and the moaniest people are in London and Yorkshire, say the headlines. If you didn’t understand about two in three of the words…
February 18, 2016, 2:12 AM IST
February 11, 2016, 1:55 AM IST
This kind of situation, if one may be snarky, is just too I told-you-so for us post-apocalyptic financial commentators. Boo-hoo the stock markets are in turmoil and venerable media outlets are talking of Global Financial…
February 11, 2016, 1:55 AM IST
February 4, 2016, 2:13 AM IST
This, as one policymaker put it, is the beginning of a long night of painful political bickering, but the spectre of Brexit is looming again. Earlier this week, the EU came up with a package…
February 4, 2016, 2:13 AM IST
January 28, 2016, 4:43 AM IST
Sometimes, it’s not very nice to have the right to say ‘I told you so’. It hasn’t taken more than a couple of weeks into 2016 for Europe’s migrant crisis to blow out of all…
January 28, 2016, 4:43 AM IST
January 14, 2016, 7:37 AM IST
It’s been quite fun to follow the intense debate about Delhi’s experiment with odd-even cars, and ban on high end SUVs. Since I don’t have to live in Delhi, I don’t have a personal stake…
January 14, 2016, 7:37 AM IST
January 7, 2016, 2:35 AM IST
New Year is when one makes resolutions; and others of my kind make predictions. I usually have a fifty-fifty record on predictions, which is about as good as it gets. This year though it’s hard…
January 7, 2016, 2:35 AM IST
December 31, 2015, 3:32 AM IST
I haven’t, obviously, been exposed to this Facebook Free Basics or internet.org till now. I don’t pretend to understand the underlying business model. I stopped doing the Internet garage act years ago; not to mention…
December 31, 2015, 3:32 AM IST
December 26, 2015, 3:45 AM IST
It’s rare for ministers to get themselves into Hollywood, but then this is Star Wars. It’s been a bit of a shock to Star Wars fans that UK’s chancellor of the exchequer (or finance minister)…
December 26, 2015, 3:45 AM IST
December 17, 2015, 5:59 AM IST
In the larger canvas of the rest of the world the seemingly weird obsessions of a little island off the coast of Europe may seem trivial. Given that little island still manages to retain some…
December 17, 2015, 5:59 AM IST
December 10, 2015, 5:58 AM IST
I have never understood the British attitude to the Iraq war. I came in after it was over and done with, and everyone was blaming Tony Blair. For some peculiar reason, the British voting public…
December 10, 2015, 5:58 AM IST
November 26, 2015, 10:20 PM IST
As ET’s international commentator, I should be analysing the dystopic science fiction state of the world, with bombs and planes and who knows who on what side. But sorry, I just can’t help poking my…
November 26, 2015, 10:20 PM IST
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