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Macron’s new enemy is the French Nigel Farage
First it was the Greens, then the Communists and on Wednesday Jean-Luc Mélenchon bagged the big one, the Socialist party.…
The nothingburger investigation into Trump’s finances
If you had “Trump goes to jail” in the office pool, you just lost. The end of any possible criminal…
Biden: MAGA is more extreme than Antifa, KKK
Being something of a barfly, Cockburn is used to overhearing tall tales, braggadocious orations, and outlandish accusations, also known as…
Can anyone stop Emmanuel Macron?
If they weren’t insufficiently weary of politicians, the French will be invited to vote all over again for the Assemblée…
The Real Housecucks of Ohio
After eight months that felt like eighty years, the Ohio Republican Senate primary has at last come to a close.…
China's secret property empire
The Russian bear might be back but the Chinese dragon waits in the wings. Moscow’s spectacularly mismanaged invasion of Ukraine…
Hands off Dave Chappelle!
The attack on Dave Chappelle last night was chilling. Sure, Chappelle wasn’t hurt. His attacker, having encountered the ire of…
Are Northern Ireland's unionists about to hand Sinn Fein victory?
‘Ulster stands at the crossroads,’ Northern Ireland’s prime minister Terence O’Neill famously declared in 1968 as the Troubles began to take hold. A crossroads…
JD Vance and America’s new right
JD Vance, the poor boy turned US Marine turned best-selling author turned venture capitalist turned politician, won the Senate Republican…
Revoking Roe v. Wade is not an assault on democracy
The leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade has sparked a furious reaction in Britain. Yet for…
Mermaids' 'help sheet' risks confusing trans kids
Mermaids is one of Britain’s most controversial trans charities, yet its overarching aim is hard to fault. The organisation says it…
What happens after Roe?
Earlier this week, Politico published a leaked Supreme Court majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade by ruling in favor of…
The real question at the heart of Roe v. Wade
There are two possible responses to the sound and fury currently emanating from Washington and from the American media after a…
British volunteers shouldn't be fighting in Ukraine
What’s going to happen to British volunteers captured while fighting Russian forces? According to Ukrainian analysts, there is intelligence to suggest that Russia…
Roe v. Wade and Britain’s non-existent abortion debate
Judge Samuel Alito was incontrovertibly right about one thing in his leaked, draft ruling on Roe v. Wade: ‘Abortion presents…
Why Meghan Markle’s Netflix show was cancelled
In their post-royal careers, Harry and Meghan have learned two lessons in quick succession: firstly, that membership of the royal…
Starmer’s partygate hypocrisy
Awarding themselves the unearned prize for moral superiority and assuming that the electorate will do so too is a crippling…
The nanny state is making us poorer
As household budgets face their worst squeeze for decades, one wonders whether the public health establishment feels any remorse for their…
The Supreme Court's abortion bombshell
Abortion is a nuclear bomb of an issue, planted at the core of American liberalism. And it just went off.…
Full text: leaked Roe v Wade draft ruling
The leak of a Supreme Court Justice’s draft opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion has reignited perhaps the…
Putin has corrupted Russia’s 'Victory Day'
The Victory Day celebrations on 9 May have been, under Vladimir Putin, through a dramatic mutation. In my childhood, in the…
The Taliban’s Afghanistan quagmire
Hibatullah Akhundzada is a secretive man who is only occasionally heard and seldom seen. But on May 1, the Taliban’s…
The dangerous rise of academic diversity quotas
Who should be the custodians of science? For centuries, scientists themselves have been. Now, their custodianship is under threat. Science…
Why Channel crossings are starting again
For a week and a half no migrants at all crossed the Channel in dinghies. A theory began to take…
How Eurosceptics seized power over the French left
In Britain it was the Tories who tore themselves apart over Europe, but in France it is the left for…
