Melanie McDonagh

NO, it really isn't like 1997. Not even close. The morning after that landslide, I met a pillar of the Tory party in the office.

The United States president intimated recently that he would not step down as presidential contender until “the Lord Almighty” personally instructed him to do so. God has declined to involve himself in the Democratic Party nomination, but Joe Biden got the next biggest thing: a wounding repudiation by George Clooney. In a piece in the New York Times, house journal of the Democrats, he declared: “This is about age. Nothing more. We are not going to win in November with this president.”

· 3-min read The United States president intimated recently that he would not step down as presidential contender until “the Lord Almighty” personally instructed him to do so.

The Euros showed us one thing: Germany isn't all it's cracked up to be . Fans who travelled around it for the games marvelled not at the impressive

The UEFA Euro 2024 football championships lasted a month - time enough for Germany to show itself from its best side, but also for less positive aspects to reveal themselves to foreign guests. A press conference before the semi-final pitting the Netherlands against England was actually cancelled due to train delays. Europe's press takes stock.

Not for the first time, Jacob Rees-Mogg got it: the Government’s plan to make working from home “the default from day one” is, he says, “an idler’s charter”.

Not for the first time, Jacob Rees-Mogg got it: the Government’s plan to make working from home “the default from day one” is, he says, “an idler’s charter”. Workers will be able to demand to work from home from the off and employers will be required to agree “so far as is reasonable”. Forget all those reports about relaxed workers being more productive in leisurewear at the kitchen table; The Economist’s overview of the data shows that for some IT firms the drop in productivity as a result of WFH amounts to almost a fifth.

You may have got the impression that the Democratic nomination is in the bag for Kamala Harris : what with all the celebrity endorsements and the flood of donations into the Biden war chest she inherited. But no. Hold fire.

There is out of touch with reality and there is Prince Harry’s concept of reality. One is excusable in privileged people like royalty, the other entails a disassociation from the real world which is just annoying.

There is out of touch with reality and there is Prince Harry's concept of reality. One is excusable in privileged people like royalty, the other