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Do we really need a GCSE focused on saving the planet?
We have yet to see the first sample papers for the new GCSE in natural history to be announced by…
In search of a Biden doctrine
Considering how likely we all are to be blown to pieces by it within the next five years, the atomic…
New World Disorder
The chaos abroad that has marked Joe Biden’s presidency is accelerating. Russia’s bloody war on Ukraine is rolling from winter…
What Ukraine means for Asia
If Asia has entered the debate over the war in Ukraine, it is primarily through questions over the role China…
How to avoid World War Three
The Russian assault on Ukraine has awakened the West to the fact that we may be back in a Cold…
It sucks to be a Christian who doesn’t believe
Easter Sunday. I went to church for the first time in ages. The little parish church has stood for 900…
The death of tanks is greatly exaggerated
Is the tank still the ‘king of the battlefield’? The sight of burnt out Russian vehicles littering the highways outside of Kyiv…
Justin Welby is wrong about Rwanda
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Easter sermon was quite something; forcefully delivered, arrestingly put. At the heart of it was his…
When cities accommodate lawlessness
A shoot-out in downtown Sacramento, California, at two in the morning on Sunday, April 3 left six people dead and…
The tragic loss of Somaliland’s epic Waaheen market
On the eve of Ramadan at the start of this month, the epic Waaheen market at the centre of Hargeisa,…
Who would want to lead such an angry France?
It was a day of protest in Paris on Saturday and I made it to four of the five demonstrations.…
The New York subway shooter’s private hell
A common theme among America’s spree killers is a fondness for rambling online. Isla Vista shooter Elliot Rodger griped about…
Why are elite Russian musicians backing Putin?
A world away from the stupendous horror perpetrated by Russian forces in Bucha and Kramatorsk, a parallel conflict is being…
Why the sinking of the Moskva matters
The sinking of the Russian guided missile cruiser Moskva is both a reminder of the past and a marker for the…
Why China has its eye on the Falklands
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has paradoxically heightened China’s global reputation, if only because it has not yet invaded a…
Why Russians celebrate monsters
Nobody knows how long people live in Dzerzhinsk – life expectancy statistics for the Russian city, 250 miles east of…
Female prisoners are being endangered by trans rights
This week it was reported that a male convicted murderer in Scotland has not only been allowed to self-identity on…
Could Australia’s answer to Corbyn become PM?
While the main electoral attraction of the moment is the French presidential showdown between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen,…
Elon Musk is the wrong kind of billionaire
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the C-suite at Twitter on Thursday afternoon. The social media…
Free speech shouldn’t depend on billionaires
If you take any interest in social media, Silicon Valley, or the culture wars — which all seem to be…
Boris isn’t safe yet
It is worth thinking back to late January when Boris Johnson’s premiership seemed in the greatest danger. As I say…
The next phase of the Ukraine war will be bloody
The war in Ukraine is about to enter an even deadlier stage, one in which both Kyiv and Moscow will…
Russia’s dark path towards the death penalty
In Russia these days, the reintroduction of the death penalty has a grim inevitability about it. There has been a…
What are the Tories for?
It’s an odd accusation to levy at Boris Johnson’s government, but the Conservative party feels grey. Flights of fancy suggesting…
Ignore the dollar doomsayers
So, it’s official. The global rating agency S&P has determined that the Russian government has defaulted on part of its…
