Is the MAGA saga coming to an end?
Did the Trump movement get a bloody nose in last night’s Republican primaries? It’s a story that most of the…
Why progressives can't tolerate Christians
For decades, Christians have talked about feeling persecuted in advanced secular and liberal democracies. They’ve often sounded a bit hysterical.…
JD Vance and America’s new right
JD Vance, the poor boy turned US Marine turned best-selling author turned venture capitalist turned politician, won the Senate Republican…
The Supreme Court's abortion bombshell
Abortion is a nuclear bomb of an issue, planted at the core of American liberalism. And it just went off.…
How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor
How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor
Apres Macron, the radical left?
Bof! That useful French word – an older and slightly less irritating version of the American-English ‘meh’ – is how…
Like him or loathe him, Macron is Europe's driving force
If you want to know why Marine Le Pen almost certainly won’t win the French presidency on 24 April, listen…
Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort – but can we trust him?
Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort — but can we trust him?
Could Biden gaffe us into world war three?
‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…
Has gambling become the great British addiction?
When I was 14 my father took me to a bookmaker’s and encouraged me to place a bet. He wanted…
Why was the Hunter Biden laptop story covered up?
It’s now a familiar pattern – a sensational news story is dismissed by serious journalists as bogus right-wing agitprop. You’d…
The myopic focus on racism at the Polish-Ukrainian border
There are already a hell of a lot of foreign correspondents and human-rights workers at the Ukrainian-Polish border – an…
In Lviv, the mood is inspiring – and fanatical
Lviv, Ukraine On the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, near a place called Shehyni where the refugee crisis…
Joe Biden’s gung-ho State of the Union speech
It’s arguably not the right moment to focus on Joe Biden’s verbal slips, but it is a little unnerving when…
Would Trump have prevented the crisis in Ukraine?
‘I know Vladimir Putin very well,’ said Donald Trump yesterday, speaking of the Ukraine crisis, ‘he would have never done…
Why the silence over Biden's links with Ukraine?
‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…
The Starmer mob moral panic
In the long history of British democracy, politicians have from time to time been heckled and abused by rowdy loons…
Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?
President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…
Biden’s mask has slipped
It was, in a way, a refreshing moment of mental alacrity from President Joe Biden. Asked if he thought inflation…
Will Trump’s pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?
Donald Trump famously boasted that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and still not…
Will Trump's pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?
Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…
There's nothing outrageous about Johnson's Christmas quiz
Since lockdown, the Mirror has had a good line on Tory lockdown hypocrisy scandals: Barnard Castle and the No. 10…
Jussie Smollett and the rise of American hate hoaxing
So Jussie Smollett, the world’s most notorious hate hoaxer, has at last been found guilty of lying to the police. …
‘Immigration is war’: an interview with Éric Zemmour
Éric Zemmour on Brexit, immigration and ‘le wokeisme’