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The Soros-backed takeover of Spanish-language radio
This week brought revelations that a consortium including multiple interested leftist participants has banded together to attempt to buy a…
Why Biden’s inflation plan will fail
It sounded impressive at the time. On the last day of May, a whole ten days ago, president Biden laid…
The Capitol riot hearings are farcically partisan
Let’s get the boringly obvious out of the way. What happened in Washington on 6 January, 2021 was bad. Very…
The death of Russian diplomacy
‘It’s like being part of a cult,’ explains one student of Russia’s elite diplomatic academy. ‘They expect us to learn…
Ben & Jerry's is wrong about Britain's 'racist' Rwanda plan
Why is an ice cream brand lecturing Britain on the morality of its immigration policy? Ben and Jerry’s, otherwise known for…
Joe Biden’s greatest hits tour
Joe Biden would never be in a hair band; a hair plugs band, maybe. Yet the president does seem to…
How Russia's press covered the death sentence of two British fighters
Two Brits and a Moroccan national captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a court in…
New Yorker claims 'racism' dominated jubilee
Just what is it with New Yorkers and London? Normally Steerpike’s ire for the Big Apple is reserved for the…
Keir Starmer isn’t working
Silence. That is what we heard during Gloria de Piero’s recent focus group which she held for her GB News…
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…
