The assassination attempt on Robert Fico will change Slovakia for ever
Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico is fighting for his life in hospital after being shot several times. While it is…
Budget review: net zero cannibalises our prosperity
The public is receiving the Budget with a sense of bored irrelevance. People are pleased to see a $300 cut…
Joe Biden is raring to debate
What began on Wednesday morning as a cringy campaign video has resulted in an official debate between Joe Biden and…
There really is no hope for Rishi Sunak
Bad news for Rishi Sunak at PMQs. Caught out by Sir Keir Starmer, he handed Labour a wonderful soundbite for…
Watering down police search warrants won’t help cut phone theft
Your phone has been stolen. In the bustle of the crowd there’s no way of telling who took it and…
The cunning of the Democrats’ lawfare
It saddens me to admit it, but the evidence is too overwhelming to dismiss: Democrats are significantly more cunning than…
The Trump trial tedium
Donald Trump was falling asleep. The former president of the United States was, as we have all been at one…
Oxford U-turns in chancellor ‘wokeism’ row
Uh oh. The dreaming spires are once again caught up in controversy. Ministers have accused Oxford University of attempting to…
Campus unrest is coming to a city near you
It is 10 p.m. at the University of Texas at Austin’s South Mall. The night is quiet, a stark contrast…
A crackdown on AI energy consumption would be a mistake
AI has an energy problem: it consumes an awful lot of it. Firms like ChatGPT creator OpenAI demand eye-watering levels of…
Pennsylvania at the polls
It’s nicknamed “the Keystone State” because, if my memory of junior-year Pennsylvania history class serves me, in America’s early founding…
Zelensky feels the pressure as Russian offensive intensifies
Volodymyr Zelensky this morning cancelled all of his upcoming foreign trips. He was scheduled to travel to Madrid on Friday…
What I learned from working-class Americans
It’s a month before publication day for my second book, Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women.…
AI and the new way of war
What is happening in Gaza now provides a glimpse of how all wars may be fought in the future —…
Biden’s base rebels over Gaza
Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is a multifront war. Unfortunately for him, the youngest soldiers in his coalition would rather fight…
Everything is an emergency after SNP rule
After nearly 17 years in office the Scottish government has finally accepted the truth: it is incompetent. It has declared…
Why can’t Starmer be honest about reforming the Lords?
Sometimes life comes at you fast. Barely 18 months ago, Sir Keir Starmer, beginning to scent general election victory in…
Will Ofcom ‘grow a backbone’ over politician presenters?
What comes around goes around. Instead of Ofcom doing the scrutinising, the media regulator found itself under the microscope this…
Could Farage save the Tory right?
Talk to almost any right-wing Tory MP these days and one of the first things they raise – with me…
The ins and outs of fatherhood
Alexandria, Virginia It is impossible to read through the transparent eyelids of an eight-day-old just what kind of young lady…
How to be friends with young people
Can an older person like me ever really be friends with a young person? At one time I would have…
Gazing at the eclipse in Walt Whitman’s perfect silence
The day before the April 8 eclipse — our postage stamp of ground sat smack dab in the middle of…
Should elders be respected?
For the left, the world has always been, and always will be, a scandal. In this American election year, it…
Loving Las Vegas
After ten hours of flying and too much bad airplane coffee, the beef carpaccio from 8 East at the Circa…
On D-Day at eighty
Traveling to Normandy fourteen years ago, we encountered a rare guide. He was a middle-aged Frenchman native to the neighborhood.…
