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Germany’s rustbelt is reviving – but voters are still flocking to the AfD
West Germany’s first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, hated eastern Germany and said – possibly apocryphally – that Asia begins at the…
Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘rave in the nave’ is indefensible
It’s too late to get tickets for Canterbury Cathedral’s silent disco tonight – as with last night’s event, they sold…
Democrats face a self-reinforcing 2024 nightmare
Yesterday was a year’s worth of a rising wave that came crashing down on Democratic hopes for 2024. They had…
Joe Biden isn’t working
Joe Biden isn’t working. That much has been clear to anyone who has followed American politics for the past four…
What Tucker Carlson should have asked Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin relished being interviewed by American journalist Tucker Carlson, who doesn’t seem to know much about Russia, Ukraine or…
Tucker Carlson failed Putin’s history class
They say that he who sups with the devil should have a long spoon. But, driven by vanity and unconstrained…
Taylor Swift can’t save the EU
The EU hopes that Taylor Swift and other pop starlets will come to its rescue in June’s European elections. With…
Piers Morgan pulls show from TalkTV
Another twist in the ongoing TV wars. After nearly two years of competing with GB News, TalkTV’s biggest star last…
Biden branded ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory’
Special Counsel Robert K. Hur submitted his report on the confidential documents found in President Biden’s Delaware garage — and…
Nobody can stop Vladimir Putin… from talking
The trouble with ageing authoritarians is not necessarily that nobody dares tell them they are wrong. It’s that nobody ever…
Prince William should say no to a Royal reconciliation with Prince Harry
Might the King’s cancer diagnosis lead the Royals to put aside the squabbles that have torn the family apart and…
A car-crash clean-up press conference Biden will hope to forget
President Joe Biden surprised the American people Thursday night by delivering previously unscheduled remarks on his classified documents scandal —…
Robert Hur’s brutal report should mark the beginning of the end of the Biden era
Special Counsel Robert Hur predictably concluded that President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents when he was a senator and…
Who’s to blame for Labour’s green U-turn?
Who to blame for the demise of Labour’s £28 billion annual green investment pledge? According to Keir Starmer, it’s the…
Women watched the NFL before Taylor Swift’s WAG era
I was standing in the beer line with a group of Pittsburgh Steelers fans midway through their home game against…
Zelensky has sacked a Ukrainian hero
If you have to ask Ukrainians to name the biggest hero of the past two years, most would probably say…
British Library left counting the cost of cyber-attack
In most countries, it would be a major scandal if foreign hackers successfully mounted a major cyber-attack on the national…
America might regret its Baghdad drone strike
The latest American drone strike in Iraq, which killed the commander of a powerful Iranian-backed militia group, is one more…
Brianna Ghey’s murder is being weaponised – but not by Sunak
We really have seen the worst of politics over the past 24 hours. I’m not referring to Rishi Sunak’s dig…
How long will Nadezhdin dare to defy Putin?
Despite a little eleventh-hour drama, Boris Nadezhdin’s bid to become the only genuine opposition candidate in March’s Russian elections has…
Why the EU detests Hungary
To misquote von Clausewitz, the European Union sees lawfare as the continuation of politics by other means. Brussels’s latest sally against the…
Why Starmer had to ditch his £28 billion green pledge
What will Labour’s flagship promise be going into the next election? There’s a policy vacancy, now that the party plans…
Starmer should listen to Sunak on gender
The transgender row isn’t going away. Prime Minister’s Questions this week was dominated by a jibe Rishi Sunak made about…
Why are schools ‘off-rolling’ pupils?
Schools dramatically change a child’s life chances, as I’ve seen in my 24 years of teaching. How we measure their…
Javier Milei is no populist
When Javier Milei visited Israel and announced that he would be moving Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem, I suppose that was terribly ‘populist’…
