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Stop attacking billionaires
The $5.79 trillion budget plan Joe Biden submitted to Congress yesterday was more notable for what it didn’t include, rather…
Who poisoned Roman Abramovich?
Russia is now 33 days into a war it expected would last 72 hours. Given the relative failure of the…
How Sunak sunk himself
Whatever his myriad faults and foibles, Boris Johnson has the one essential quality that Napoleon demanded of his generals: luck.…
The rouble's astonishing recovery
The tank columns are stalled; one or two towns captured from the Ukrainians have been retaken. Russia’s war effort has…
Is Putin’s playbook finally being used against him?
Goris, Armenia ‘Where we deploy our own troops within our own borders is nobody’s business but our own,’ Kremlin press…
Do the No. 10 partygate fines spell trouble for Boris?
Partygate is back in the news as Downing Street braces itself for a bumpy few weeks. This morning, Scotland Yard…
Putin's war is pushing Finland towards Nato
There is important precedent for a small, determined, patriotic army saving a nation from falling under the sway of Russia.…
Has Jesus College learned anything from its Rustat defeat?
When Jesus College in the University of Cambridge set up a committee looking for ‘legacies of slavery’, they found what…
Coventry is wrong to cut ties with Volgograd
The faded mural on the streets of Coventry is meant to represent an unbreakable bond between itself and Russia. Volgograd twinned…
Has Biden lost his mind on Ukraine?
Has Joe Biden gone loco over Ukraine? In Warsaw, Biden proclaimed of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “For God’s sake, this…
Five other award show moments that needed a slap
Actor Will Smith delivered the slap heard ’round the world Sunday night at the 2022 Oscars ceremony, smacking comedian Chris…
Biden’s ad-libs are making the world less safe
Joe Biden, by his own admission, is a man who sometimes goes off script. Whereas some presidents seek to bottle…
Starmer won't talk about sex and gender. That's a problem
Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to talk about penises. He’s going to have to do it anyway, and he’s not…
Prince William is turning into his brother
For a tour that should have been an unmitigated success, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to the Caribbean…
Is Biden trying to crash the economy?
A war is raging in Ukraine. Inflation has risen to a 30-year high and may have started to spiral out…
Chris Rock, not Will Smith, is the hero men need
There was an explosion of masculinity on the stage at the Oscars last night. Male behaviour was on display for…
Could Le Pen snatch victory from Macron?
When the attacks commence it’s clear that Marine Le Pen’s enemies are unnerved. For months – actually make that five…
Even Putin's Praetorian Guard is turning against him
You’d think a ruthless autocrat who believes he faces a West that wants to unseat him with people power would…
Germany's progressives have a Putin problem
Eighty-nine years ago this week, the German Social Democrats in the Reichstag cast the only votes opposing Adolf Hitler’s dictatorial…
Could Biden gaffe us into world war three?
‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…
The true story about Russian lying
We were having a few drinks in a rented flat in the centre of Grozny in late 1994. A bunch…
How gender studies took over the world
Why are so many people in such a muddle over the word ‘woman’? Sadly, a share of the blame falls on…
White House backtracks on Biden's claim that Putin can’t stay in power
In his speech in Warsaw today, Joe Biden said of Vladimir Putin: ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in…
How Kissinger became an asset of China
It started with Henry Kissinger. Before Intel apologised to China for attempting to remove forced labor from the company’s supply…
Why Russian tactics won't win the war
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its second month, the war has settled into a largely attritional struggle –…