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The Northern Ireland elections could break the Union
Belfast, Northern Ireland Phillip Brett was just nine years old the night a neighbour called to say his brother, Gavin,…
Criminalising ‘cyberflashing’ is a waste of time
It’s a fact of life that at any given time, a woman’s social media messages will be filled with three…
'Putin's brain': What Alexander Dugin reveals about Russia's leader
Much has been made of what Putin has in common with Stalin. Both leaders brook no dissent: they subordinate truth…
The gloves are off for Macron and Le Pen
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clash tomorrow evening in an eagerly anticipated live television debate. The president has been…
The walls close in on the Russiagate perpetrators
The latest filing by Special Counsel Robert Durham, investigating Russiagate and the Hillary Clinton campaign, suggests the rabbit hole goes…
Remember Afghanistan?
For Americans, neglecting Afghanistan has long been the norm. Almost from its inception, it was the forgotten war, fought “over…
Elon Musk and tweeting on a volcano
Of all the hilarious freakouts over Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter, my personal favorite comes from journalism professor and…
Conservatives need to forget about Hungary
In his novel The Prime Minister, the fifth in the Palliser series, Anthony Trollope has Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium,…
Prince Harry's stolen future
It had been, for a change, a good few days for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Not only have…
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…
