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Putin is using fear to mobilise the masses
There was nothing subtle about it, as cranes lifted truck-based Pantsir-S1 air defence systems onto the roofs of the sprawling…
Ukraine is lucky to have Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. So wrote William Shakespeare in Henry V. He…
Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…
Germany is paralysed by pacifism
Germany’s marked reluctance to supply Leopard 2 tanks to help Ukraine repel the brutal Russian invasion has very little to…
Winston Churchill isn’t to blame for the Bengal famine
Sir Winston Churchill arguably saved civilisation as we know it. Had Britain capitulated to Germany after the fall of France,…
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
Sunak fined by police for a second time
In the past few minutes, Lancashire Police has confirmed that Rishi Sunak has received a fixed penalty notice for sitting…
Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door
I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…
Assisted dying is a slippery slope
What are your thoughts on assisted dying and assisted suicide? That’s the question asked by a Health and Social Care…
Davos man is back in charge of the global economy
Davos was back with a bang this week for the first full-scale winter conference since the pandemic. And yet, the…
Inflation is coming down – but when will we start to feel better off?
Despite this week’s inflation update, broad consensus remains that the headline rate is going to fall – significantly – this…
The Sunak seatbelt row is a pathetic ‘scandal’
Remember when Britain knew how to do a good political scandal? Secretaries of State sharing showgirls with Soviet attachés. A…
Has Starmer’s Davos gambit backfired?
Ah, the World Economic Forum: that annual jamboree for plutocratic banksters, avaricious industrialists and superannuated spongers to come together in…
Sorry, folks, Donald Trump isn’t going away
Almost all of us can recite the reasons why Donald Trump’s political career should be over. We hear them again…
How Marine Le Pen became the voice of France’s red wall
It sums ups the sorry state of the Socialist party in France that they can’t even elect a new leader.…
Joe Biden’s failure of leadership
Leadership, real leadership, requires setting an example. As far as security is concerned, the leader of the federal government, Joe…
Putin is running out of options – and shopping for more
As Vladimir Putin geared up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, all the…
The Pink Tide returns to Latin America
As the dust settled on Jair Bolsonaro’s seismic victory in Brazil back in 2018, one might have spared a thought…
Jacinda Ardern over-promised and under-delivered
And just like that, she’s gone. In one of the biggest shocks to hit New Zealand politics since that late…
The unhinged environmentalism of Al Gore
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have…
Are the Tories serious about levelling up?
How serious are the Conservatives about levelling up? Their MPs have reportedly been told not to use the phrase in their…
Jacinda Ardern’s tattered legacy
Wellington, New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be stepping down as the prime minister of New Zealand, saying…
The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
Why Jacinda Ardern is stepping down
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will stand down on February 7. In an announcement in Wellington, choking back tears,…
Twilight of the Democrats’ gerontocracy
As President Biden plans to launch his reelection campaign, he is whistling past a graveyard of recently discarded Democratic Party…
