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Boris deserves credit for his Ukraine response
Boris Johnson’s visit to Kyiv is notable not only for its unannounced nature but for the additional package of support…
The strange revival of France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is on the march once more, rising up the polls and laying bare the ineptitude of the Socialist…
Is Rishi just too rich for politics?
The obvious and perhaps only way out of this mess for Rishi Sunak was for his wife to pay double…
The Russian army is running out of options
So much had been written about the Russian armed forces’ modernisation and improvement over the last decade that that it…
Le Pen's last stand
Marine Le Pen, if recent polling is to be believed, is rapidly cutting Emanuel Macron’s lead in the upcoming French…
The terrifying neo-Nazi mercenaries being deployed in Ukraine
Given how the Kremlin is so determined to portray Ukraine as a hotbed of Nazis, it is tragically ironic not…
Boris and Scholz parade the new Europe
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has changed Europe forever. That was the argument that Boris Johnson made on Friday when he…
Elon Musk is the Darth Vader of Twitter
When I think of Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, I think of Darth Vader. It’s not that Agrawal himself reminds me…
Rishi’s wife changes tack on tax
This evening Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty has announced that she will pay UK taxes on her overseas income, following a public backlash…
When Biden joked that he’d ‘beat the hell’ out of a congressman
Five Guys has always been Cockburn’s first choice for a greasy cheeseburger — breakfast of champions, says he — but…
Sulky Sunak has scuppered himself
There is a scene in one of the Lord of the Rings films in which kindly Bilbo Baggins becomes contorted…
Say no to the populist war party
Addressing the question of whether now is the time for counterrevolution rather than conservation, I will take “counterrevolution” to mean the…
The Guardian goes for J.K. Rowling
It seems that taking gratuitous swipes at J.K. Rowling has become something of a competition for liberal broadsheets on both sides…
How Israel's Prime Minister got burnt by bread
Jerusalem For nearly ten months now, ever since his surprising elevation to the Israeli prime minister’s office, Naftali Bennett has…
Russia and Ukraine's fate is about to be decided
The first phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ended with a decisive defeat for Russian forces in the…
Is Israel facing a new Intifada?
Dizengoff Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Tel Aviv, a strip of bars, restaurants and Bauhaus architecture that…
Pressure on Sunak grows over his wife’s non-dom status
Rishi Sunak goes into the weekend facing questions from the media, Labour and some Tories over the tax status of…
Russia ‘realists’ have very little to say about evil
‘Every way of a man is right in his own eyes’, the Book of Proverbs says: it makes us feel…
Ukraine has exposed the EU for what it really is
Since the Ukraine conflict erupted, the EU has had a great deal to say about its sympathy for Ukraine as…
China: one bully to rule them all
Several years ago, I visited the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It’s located, a bit surreally,…
Why the left really wants to sexualize your kids
Conservatives, for practically the first time ever, have gone on offense in the debate over Florida’s Parental Rights in Education…
Stop hating on celebrity politicians
I recently had the chance to peek behind Dr. Mehmet Oz’s curtain, and what I saw made me view the…
Atlantic journalist: I still don’t care about Hunter’s laptop
Cockburn has accidentally left his laptop at plenty of bars in his day. Yet if you were to open it…
Will Britain’s new energy strategy keep the lights on?
Today’s Energy Security Strategy puts energy security at the heart of the debate over energy and environmental policy, where it…
Five ways for Rishi to bounce back
Four weeks ago, Rishi Sunak was riding high, Boris Johnson was on the slide and the Chancellor’s daughter was proudly…
