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The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
Despite three years in prison, Navalny still scares Putin
The March presidential elections in Russia will, of course, be a stage-managed farce, but that doesn’t mean that real politics…
Was the Post Office’s Horizon software used to wrongly convict a man of murder?
Robin Garbutt, the postmaster who lived above the village shop with his wife, Diana, was a popular figure in Melsonby,…
How Australia became obsessed with land acknowledgments
If you attend almost any public meeting or event in Australia these days, you’ll be greeted – some would say…
How Israel is failed by its war of words
Sitting in a room at the Israel Defence Forces’ Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, I listened – along with a…
Nikki Haley says being Trump’s vice president is ‘off the table’
The theory that Donald Trump will pick Nikki Haley as his vice president refuses to die – in spite of…
Prince Harry’s libel case humiliation
As flies are to wanton boys – and this particular boy is as wanton as it gets – so Prince…
The real reason Netanyahu is opposed to a Palestinian state
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Biden administration earlier this week that he objects to the establishment of…
The madness of the Port Talbot closures
Hurrah! The UK is just about to reduce its carbon emissions by a further 1.5 per cent. As for Wales,…
Prince Harry faces £750k libel bill
It seems the renegade royal has run away again. All of Fleet Street was eagerly anticipating the mother of all…
Does Sunak have a relatability problem?
Rishi Sunak has been caught on camera apparently walking away from a woman who has just started telling him about…
Agreeing to power-sharing now could ruin the DUP
Once upon a time, a young unionist politician marched out of a talks process. Recalling the incident later, he said: ‘I…
The curious case of Nicola Sturgeon’s missing WhatsApps
The saga of the Scottish Government’s WhatsApps continues to rumble on. The SNP regime has never been slow in condemning…
How Catalan separatists are taking control of immigration
In Spain’s general election last July, the right-wing Partido Popular and the even more right-wing Vox won 170 seats, just…
Jeremy Hunt has difficult decisions ahead of him on tax cuts
The Tory party’s plan to further cut taxes in the Spring Budget is not exactly a secret. Still, Jeremy Hunt’s…
Who is persecuting Ukraine’s journalists?
Investigative journalism has often been deadly for the careers of corrupt politicians in Ukraine, with stories leading to resignations and…
Is Emmanuel Macron secretly hoping for a Trump victory?
The great and the good of this world met in Davos this week to tell each other how wonderful they…
Can Europe match Russia’s remarkable rise in weapons production?
‘You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support…
Missiles alone won’t solve the problem of the Houthis
Eventually then, enough was enough. After months of Houthi drone and missile attacks on Israel and vessels in the Red…
Javier Milei shocks Davos
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland, draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
How Trump captured his party
Vintage news outlets, with lots of time to kill and space to fill, are desperately trying to say the Republican…
The course of the American empire
In the 1830s, the English-born American artist Thomas Cole painted an ambitious sequence of five large rectangular canvases delineating “The…
Javier Milei dismantles the Davos groupthink
Each year the World Economic Forum’s conference in Davos, Switzerland draws the attention of conspiracy theorists. In truth, nothing is…
Starmer flip-flops on his CPS record
He’s at it again. Like those unscrupulous bosses he professes to despise, Sir Keir Starmer enjoys taking the credit when…
Sergei Lavrov: War has had a ‘positive impact on life in Russia’
Just when you thought Putin’s regime couldn’t sink any lower, it somehow manages to. Like something out of George Orwell’s 1984,…
