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Farage threatens vetting company with legal action
Uh oh. After multiple reports of controversial candidates, Reform UK boss Nigel Farage has announced that he is threatening a…
Will French voters be revolted by the new popular front?
The Nouveau Front Populaire has been formed to take on Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the French legislative…
Why Kim Jong Un is rolling out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin
When Vladimir Putin lands in Pyongyang today on his first visit to North Korea in 24 years, it will be…
Kylian Mbappé’s veiled Le Pen warning won’t save Macron
France’s prime minister was out and about on Monday mixing with the proles south of Paris. ‘I’m going to shake…
London can thank Macron for becoming Europe’s largest stock market
When Paris overtook London as the continent’s largest stock market two years ago, it was widely seen as a significant…
Starmer flounders on phone-in over private schools and Corbyn
With only 16 days to go until the election – and today being the last day you can register to…
Trump’s crush on Debra Messing
Long before he called Taylor Swift “unusually beautiful,” it was Debra Messing who had Trump utterly entranced. According to a…
How the Scottish Tories can survive
‘The thing is,’ says one Conservative member of the Scottish parliament, ‘that we wanted rid of him – just not…
In praise of Nigel Farage’s war on banks
Why did it take Nigel Farage to suggest clawing back some of the super profits pocketed recently by British banks?…
Labour shouldn’t squander the chance to fix council tax
In the final election push, the Tories are trying to drag the Labour party into a game of taxation whack-a-mole.…
In defence of hereditary peers
‘Hereditary peers remain indefensible,’ says Labour’s manifesto. The party plans to rectify this issue by ‘introducing legislation to remove the…
We’ll never find the heir to Blair
The ghost of 1997 haunts the 2024 election. The defining image of this year’s contest, barring any major upsets over…
What a pleasure to see Belgium blow it again
Ok, so I’m partisan, granted. This was a game between my favourite mainland European country and the continent’s noisome, jihadi-replete,…
Who can right the RNC ship?
It was September of 2014 and Republicans were very nervous. A new poll showed Kansas senator Pat Roberts trailing his…
‘Justice’ and the fall of a republic
“What happens now?” The question flooded my inbox and what used to be called the Twittersphere. Why? Because shortly after…
Antony Blinken embodies decades of failure
There is no sign marking the entrance to Barman Dictat. The bar under 44 Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv boasts the…
The American Ornithological Society’s war on the past
Say you’re easing along a meadow stream, upslope but not steep, somewhere in the Rockies. It’s a morning in spring,…
The bitter fights around the globe
France New Caledonia is an archipelago in the South Pacific not far from Australia. James Cook discovered it in 1774,…
The space race gets serious
We are shifting from the early era of space exploration to a more serious phase extending ever further from Earth’s…
What is war good for in the twenty-first century?
What exactly is war good for in the twenty-first century? The US should have asked itself this before embarking on…
Inside the handover of Hong Kong
During the negotiations between the UK Foreign Office and the Chinese government that led to the 1997 handover of Hong…
Adopting the Great Loop mindset
When I asked Malinda and Keith Martin when a good time for an interview would be, Malinda wrote back, “We…
Who is Pierre Poilievre?
An extreme form of mental gymnastics is required to believe that a pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, pro-immigration philosemite in an interracial marriage…
Why Japan won’t repeat the West’s mistakes on immigration
Japan has become another piece of fodder for the West’s culture wars. After a recent visit with his family, talk-show…
Reform candidate defends Hitler remarks
Since the return of Nigel Farage, Reform UK has been going from strength to strength. Last week a YouGov survey…
