World
Is YouTube TV about to fumble NFL Sunday Ticket?
Over the past few years, the NFL, a professional sports behemoth built largely on the backs of broadcasting deals with…
Why Ron DeSantis should wait for 2028
Maybe Niccolò Machiavelli was not the first political consultant, but he remains one of the best. Ron DeSantis might solicit…
Mary Quant 1930–2023
The fashion designer and icon Mary Quant has died at the age of 93. Brigid Keenan wrote the following piece…
York doesn’t need Unesco world heritage status
The Unesco world heritage status award is a curious kind of international beauty contest in which historic locations vie to…
France won’t be able to escape conflict in Taiwan
The last month or so has been an active time in Chinese-western relations. Early March saw President Xi threaten the…
Will Sunak’s charm offensive on Biden pay off?
Joe Biden’s trip to Belfast was seen in government as a chance to strengthen the special relationship. The initial hope…
Europe is falling apart on the world stage
There is rather more than meets the eye to Emmanuel Macron’s inept visit to Beijing last week. The immediate fallout…
Macron’s China controversy is a big nothingburger
French president Emmanuel Macron, the self-appointed leader of Europe, is having a not so great week. His multi-day visit to…
Why isn’t Meghan going to the coronation?
Today’s announcement that Prince Harry will be coming to London for his father’s coronation is not a surprise. Yet it…
Will Northern Ireland ever learn to solve its own problems?
If the relationship between the UK and the United States is allegedly special, the relationship between Northern Irish politicians and…
The rise of rowdy theatre audiences isn’t a surprise
The incident at Manchester’s Palace Theatre last Friday night at the close of a performance of the musical version of The…
Are Labour’s attack ads that successful?
Over at Labour HQ, there’s a mood of triumphalism about the party’s string of attack adverts. Newspapers are full of…
Can the spiritual element of the coronation survive?
Almost as soon as Charles III acceded to the throne last September, we began to hear whispers and speculation about…
Joe Biden’s hostility to Britain only harms the United States
This week Joe Biden is swanning around Ireland in what must be, according to his Irish-American fantasies, the climax of…
China is forcing its chatbots to be socialist
So now it’s official, Chinese chatbots will have to be ‘socialist’ and woe betide any tech company that allows its…
Biden needs Trump
As Joe Biden tours Northern Ireland this week to mark the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the big…
Interest rates can’t go back to being as low as they were
Good news – at least for those who hold faith in economic forecasts. The IMF has just eradicated half the…
Macron’s muddled foreign policy
Even the French reports of President Macron’s state visit to China last week were unflattering. The highly choreographed ceremonies with…
Violent extremists won’t spoil Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland
What can violent extremists do to wreck Joe Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland? The answer is precious little. The…
Did palace officials joke that Prince Harry had Stockholm syndrome?
An ‘archetype’ is a ‘universally understood term or pattern of behaviour, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or…
The CBI has outlived any useful purpose
The director-general has been forced to stand down amid allegations of misconduct. There are allegations against others inside the organisation of harassment…
Women are being ignored again in the surrogacy debate
Just over five years ago, I wrote an article here about sex and gender and the issues raised by policies…
Joe Biden’s shameful excuses for the Afghan withdrawal fiasco
It is an iron law that if governments put out important documents just ahead of a long holiday weekend there…
Is Giorgia Meloni stoking Britain’s migrant crisis?
In the last week over 1,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel, which is twice the number of people that…
It has become illegal to support Russia in the Czech Republic
Supporting Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is now socially and morally beyond the pale in most of the western world.…
