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Marina Hyde

A columnist known for her sharp, satirical take on British politics and celebrity culture.

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Three years after his death, the Met goes after Mohamed Al Fayed. As for his enablers – well, you can’t rush things, can you? | Marina Hyde
The crimes he stands accused of required whole armies of facilitators. Don’t the victims deserve to see them face justice too?How reassuring to learn that police investigating claims of sexual assa...
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It’s Harry and Meghan in Finding Freedom 2: Back in Blighty | Marina Hyde
Hard to fathom exactly why Megxit is over and the self-exiled wonder generators are leaving California. Luckily, the internet sleuths are on the caseWednesday night brought an absolute cloudburst o...
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A World Cup with no participants – it could be Gianni Infantino’s boldest move yet | Marina Hyde
You’ve got to admire the Fifa president’s chutzpah in trying to flog off football’s greatest prize. If only Uefa wasn’t being so pesky about it allImagine a plan so distasteful that even the Americ...
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Who dares ridicule Gianni Infantino as the World Cup boss creates global peace? Not me: is it you? | Marina Hyde
If you thought he was just a shady rule-dodging reprobate, the Fifa boss’s latest 15-page Instagram rant might make you think againI hope you have found time to enjoy Fifa president Gianni Infantin...
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When is an apology not an apology? When it comes from an AI boss with an out-of-control chatbot | Marina Hyde
An incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent hacked a startup either confirms that the end is nigh – or that the product is just amazingly sophisticatedThroughout history, many things have been ...
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Football, golf … behold the future of world sport: Donald Trump as referee-in-chief | Marina Hyde
After his dubious intervention at the World Cup, the president is now an arbiter of high-level fairway disputes. There’s one word for that: SAD! For so many of us around the world, the final scenes...
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The White House’s guide to manhood: pop some T, restart a war and do WHAT with a corn dog? | Marina Hyde
Pete Hegseth wants to win the war on Iran with a secret weapon: testosterone. Meanwhile, JD Vance is worried about how to eat an ice-creamAre the men of the Trump administration OK? Feels like it’s...
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One thought on the Clacton contenders: the ‘establishment’ looks a bit different these days, doesn’t it? | Marina Hyde
Nigel Farage has billed his byelection as a clash with the powers that be. To wit: Laurence Fox, a naked celebrity and a man with a bin on his headQuick look at the Clacton byelection field as it s...
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So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there? | Marina Hyde
Joy is unbounded and when it dies down perhaps the guilty will be held to account for cheating and facilitation: perhaps they won’t. Still, enjoy the momentOh dear. Such a shame to see the US lose ...
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The US turns 250 and Taylor Swift gets married. I think we all know which is a bigger deal | Marina Hyde
The cultural phenomenon is beginning her latest era in a castle built inside Madison Square Garden. It’s the perfect celebration for our post-privacy ageIt is a cast-iron rule of the comments-secti...
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At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde
But with rumours about a certain workshy Windsor circulating this week, are we actually encouraging joblessness with an overly generous safety net?Finally, some part of our struggling state is gett...
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Welcome to the Andy Burnham show: the Westminster frenzy sucking up the British media’s attention | Marina Hyde
Despite Friday’s awful rail crash, it was the PM-in-waiting’s journey from Manchester to London that dominated the headlinesBogglingly, Andy Burnham didn’t even wait to become prime minister before...
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Reform’s genius plan is finally coming into view: field terrible candidates then lose | Marina Hyde
The unstoppable Nigel Farage is looking increasingly stoppable in the wake of Makerfield. The actual prime minister, meanwhile, has gone into hidingYou’ll note Keir Starmer is in full bunker mode –...
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Brand Beckham always delivers with a PR opportunity. But Brooklyn’s turned up late, with the wrong order | Marina Hyde
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham appears in a new ad for DoorDash, just months after attacking the family brand’s love of self-promotion. Where will it all end?I see Brooklyn Beckham is on his DoorDash priva...
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Labour’s woes are like a slow-motion car crash – and Keir Starmer isn’t even in the driving seat | Marina Hyde
More resignations, more possible leadership challenges and dubious ‘sources’ – the PM has lost control of his own political agenda“This isn’t the beginning of the end,” one senior Labour adviser re...
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A cage-fighting arena is just what Trump’s White House lawn needed. I have a suggestion on how to use it | Marina Hyde
The president’s new Craposseum is the perfect venue for Vance, Hegseth and others to battle for favour. Fight, fight, fight indeedOn behalf of the US administration, the American embassy in London ...
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When does Nigel Farage 'speak for the nation'? When it suits him | Marina Hyde
Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry NowakWhich murder victim’s ambulance does the would-be statesman chase? Can you be said to ...
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