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Prince Harry and Andrew Tate are two sides of the same coin

12 January 2023 2:19 pm

On the face of things, there is little in common between Prince Harry and Andrew Tate. Yet look closer and…

Mayor Pete’s planes, trains and automobiles

12 January 2023 5:42 am

Almost a year ago, the Federal Aviation Authority, under the helm of transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, announced that the aviation…

The conservative case against impeaching Joe Biden

12 January 2023 4:39 am

“President Biden should be impeached by the incoming House Republican majority over his ongoing destruction of the southern border,” proclaimed National…

The generation war and why millennials are drifting leftward

12 January 2023 3:28 am

The war between the generations is on, and the battle lines have been drawn. The baby boomers don’t like the…

Why Japan has been a post-Brexit ally to Britain

12 January 2023 1:59 am

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida is in London today to meet Rishi Sunak and sign an historic defence agreement which…

What you need to know about Biden’s documents caper

12 January 2023 1:07 am

We are still in the early stages of discovering what the documents discovered in Joe Biden’s office at the University…

Cardinal Pell’s righteous fury at the Vatican’s theological direction

12 January 2023 12:06 am

Cardinal Pell, a former head of Vatican finances, does not criticise Pope Francis directly in the piece he’s written for…

We will miss the non-doms when they’re gone

11 January 2023 11:50 pm

It will cover a generous pay rise for the nurses. It will bail out the NHS. It will put the…

The Catholic Church must free itself from this ‘toxic nightmare’

11 January 2023 11:43 pm

Shortly before he died on Tuesday, Cardinal George Pell wrote the following article for The Spectator in which he denounced the Vatican’s…

Did Biden also illegally hoard top-secret documents?

11 January 2023 10:51 pm

Remember the tale of Donald Trump and the ‘illegal hoarding’ of the top-secret documents? It was only last summer. On…

Losing Crimea would condemn Putin

11 January 2023 10:14 pm

As the fighting in Ukraine slows for the winter, three things stand out. The first is the most obvious: a small,…

Boris: Tories must unite

11 January 2023 7:55 pm

To the Carlton Club, that Palladian monument to power. Last night it hosted the unveiling of Boris Johnson’s new portrait,…

Has China admitted failure for zero Covid?

11 January 2023 6:36 pm

Why did China end its zero Covid policy so abruptly? This question has confounded China-watchers and even the Chinese people…

In defence of Harry’s Taliban comments

11 January 2023 6:00 pm

Let’s just simmer down about Prince Harry, at least when it comes to his comments about the Taliban. In his…

Ron DeSantis is the Republican party’s best hope

11 January 2023 5:53 pm

Florida governor Ron DeSantis is shaping up as the GOP’s best hope for next year’s US presidential election. Large parts…

Behind the scenes of the Kevin McCarthy negotiations

11 January 2023 10:18 am

And then there was Kevin. In the wake of a forecasted red wave that never materialized, now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy plotted…

It’s different when Biden gets caught with classified docs

11 January 2023 7:45 am

So where are the FBI SWAT teams? Will they be raiding Joe Biden’s private office at the Penn Biden Center…

How have our politicians gotten so bad at lying?

11 January 2023 5:12 am

It’s been a bumpy month or so for newly elected Congressman George Santos, if that is his real name. Shortly…

The UK can’t ignore Scotland’s gender recognition Bill

10 January 2023 11:13 pm

On Monday we learned that Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs) issued in Scotland might not be accepted in England and Wales.…

Boris Johnson falls victim to Grant Shapps’ photoshop fail

10 January 2023 11:12 pm

It seems that Grant Shapps’ day has just gone from bad to worse. Having cursed the Virgin Orbit mission by…

Is this the real reason Russia is trying to seize Bakhmut from Ukraine?

10 January 2023 10:10 pm

Bakhmut is not of immense strategic importance. It’s a backwater, empty of almost all civilian life, and largely in ruins.…

Why does Israel want to patch things up with Russia?

10 January 2023 8:30 pm

Is Israel cosying up to Russia? When Eli Cohen, Israel’s foreign minister, spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov last week, it was the first such call between…

Prince Harry’s Spare ends with a whimper not a bang

10 January 2023 5:43 pm

The epigraph for Spare, Prince Harry’s frenziedly awaited memoir, is from William Faulkner’s Requiem for a Nun. It states simply ‘The past is never dead. It’s…

How DeSantis can de-program the blue states

10 January 2023 2:34 pm

Four years ago this week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis presciently warned in his first inaugural address that big-spending, high-taxing states were…

The Brooks Brothers riot comes to Brazil

10 January 2023 7:52 am

So the Brooks Brothers riot has arrived in Brasilia. That riot, a precursor to January 6, took place in Miami-Dade…