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Mr. McConaughey goes to Washington
Matthew McConaughey came to Cockburn’s hometown of Washington, DC on Tuesday. It was not to say hi, of course, but…
Emily Bridges is right about transgender cyclists
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges doesn’t ‘want special treatment from anyone’. In an ITV interview, Bridges said: ‘I just want the…
PMQs: Boris let slip his re-election strategy
PMQs started with a bump. The Speaker called Dame Angela Eagle whose tone was acidic but quietly conversational. ‘This week’s…
Boris can’t wish the tax burden away
After an uncomfortably close confidence vote for the Prime Minister on Monday, Boris Johnson’s premiership still hobbles along. But for…
Starmer’s PMQs performance was oddly flat
It’s not unusual for a Labour leader to attack the government over the NHS at Prime Minister’s Questions. Neither is…
The utter shamelessness of Britain’s rail unions
In what other industry could demand collapse by a tenth and yet the staff still think that they have a…
Welcome to the age of post-Covid nihilism
Washington, DC Amid the recent orgy of violence across America, it was the carjackings that finally got me. Lost amid all…
Why Ukrainians like me still love Boris Johnson
When Boris Johnson and Ukraine’s president Zelensky walked through the streets of our capital in April, they came across a…
Nigeria’s Christians are relentlessly under attack
Dozens of Christian worshippers, including several children, were killed in a gun raid on a church in Nigeria’s Owo town…
The trouble with Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty, the French economist who shot to fame for writing a colossal work of economics that many people bought…
What Boris needs to do to survive
Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…
Boris Johnson should quit now to save his career
The greased piglet will soon be sausages. That, at least, seems the obvious outcome of this week’s Tory party confidence…
Joe Biden’s get-along-go-along
The late columnist Molly Ivins once quipped about the inhabitants of “the world’s greatest deliberative body” that “‘Get along, go…
The man taking on the anti-free-speech left
For the anti-free-speech left, the most dangerous man in America today is Greg Lukianoff. The president of the Foundation for…
Boris's moment of maximum danger is yet to come
Much as Boris Johnson wants to ‘bash on’, deliver popular populist policies, and characterise Monday’s confidence vote as the catharsis…
The EU's phone charger rule will stifle innovation
Who could argue with the words of the EU’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton when he says: ‘a common charger…
Shame on Cineworld for cancelling The Lady of Heaven
Bradford was chosen last week as the UK’s City of Culture for 2025. This week, Bradford Cineworld – as well as a…
Confirmed: Media Matters is a garbage place
Timothy Johnson, a “researcher” with Media Matters for America, announced Monday that he had left the organization after ten years…
The feminist case for Love Island
Love Island, which started again last night, flirts with virtue just a little more obviously each year. The show is racially…
How the Tories can avoid a repeat of their confidence vote conundrum
Boris Johnson insists that his victory in last night’s confidence vote means he will be able to ‘draw a line under…
Things are about to get even worse for Boris Johnson
A round of tax cuts? A splurge of infrastructure spending? Or perhaps a whizzy way of subsidising housing? Boris Johnson…
The game is up, Boris Johnson
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative and Unionist party is also a pretty lousy result for the country. That…
How Boris can cling on
What is happening in the UK right now is similar to the later Berlusconi years, the opera buffa phase of…
Can Boris bounce back?
How does Boris Johnson bounce back from 148 members of his own party expressing no confidence in him? The Prime…
Boris: It's not over. Rebels: Yes, it is
Boris Johnson has just insisted that he has had ‘an extremely positive’ and ‘decisive result’ in the vote of confidence…
