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Pakistan is on the brink
On Tuesday I speculated that Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, now the opposition leader, was so popular that he…
Liz Cheney: the self-appointed moral center of the GOP
I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to write about Liz Cheney again. After she was crushed by the Trump-endorsed Harriet…
Are sanctions against Russia actually working?
Six months ago this week, the United States and its European allies enacted one of the most comprehensive, stringent sanctions…
Albanian channel crossings are making our borders look like a joke
The wholesale abuse of the United Kingdom’s asylum system has taken a novel, absurdist twist in the last few months.…
Japan’s nuclear renaissance
Japan is reversing its avowedly anti-nuclear stance, restarting idled plants and looking to develop a new generation of reactors, announced Prime Minister…
Are the French willing to pay Macron’s price?
The age of abundance is over, declared Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, which must have come as news to the 14…
Money won't keep the Union together
Despite its name, Gers Day is not an annual celebration of the Ibrox side that makes up one half of…
Crime is being decriminalised
In February Joshua Carney, a man with 47 previous convictions, was released from prison early on licence. Five days later,…
If there’s a horserace in the forest and no one hears it…
Earlier today, I went outside and threw a frisbee at a tree. Then I came back inside and the chyron…
The problem with Biden's student debt plan
In Europe it is handouts to help pay our energy bills – even for people who could easily afford to…
Is Harry Styles ashamed of being straight?
Celebrities used to dread being outed as gay. Now they seem to dread being outed as straight. Consider Harry Styles.…
Politicians should let the market solve the energy crisis
What policies should the government adopt in response to the energy crisis? When thinking about any policy, the correct place…
Daria Dugina has become a martyr for Putin
There was something menacing yet vaguely absurd about the Tuesday memorial service held to commemorate the life and fascist times…
Are Russian sanctions working?
Soaring gas and electricity prices are giving us an idea of the cost of imposing sanctions on Russia – a…
Britain doesn’t need a public holiday to remember the slave trade
A fair number of episodes in the history of this country are frankly best forgotten. The last thing to do…
A divided Tory party is destined to lose the next election
I think that I may be able to claim credit for being the first writer to question the once universal…
The stalemate in Ukraine won't last forever
Addressing the vexed question of who is winning the war in Ukraine, six months on, is a task to challenge…
The Conservative party is a void
Like the winter of discontent, the summer of 2022 is a season that will burn itself into the national consciousness.…
The golden noose around Apple’s neck
“Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try…
We shouldn't accept the Channel crossings
Yesterday, 1,295 people arrived in the UK by crossing the Channel in small boats. That is the highest daily total…
Meghan’s Archetypes podcast is really all about her
It’s fair to speculate that the head honchos at Spotify might be wondering if their company got enough bang for…
Aleksandr Dugin’s daughter paid the cost for his beliefs
In the spring of 1994, year three of the Bosnian war, Ana, the daughter of the Bosnian Serb Lieutenant Colonel…
What's to blame for the crash of the euro?
Since June 2016 we have settled into a pattern. Whenever the pound plunges, it is followed by cries of ‘I…
We’re at pandemic levels of death. Why is no one talking about it?
At the peak of the lockdowns, thousands were dying every week. Newspaper front pages demanded action. But in the latest…
Britain is not prepared for winter blackouts
Britain has a bold new plan for dealing with a winter energy crisis: ‘hope for good weather’. It’s hard to…
