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British judges are right to cut ties with Hong Kong
The resignations of Lords Reed and Hodge from Hong Kong’s highest court is not much of a surprise, except perhaps to…
Neither Ukraine nor Russia can win the war
While Russia has agreed to pull back its troops from Kyiv, the signs of a wider breakthrough in peace talks are…
Israel is facing a new wave of terror
Is Israel in the midst of another wave of terrorist violence? Five Israelis were killed in a terrorist incident on…
Has Putin finally handed over control to his generals?
Russia has signalled that, a month into a war that it expected to take a few days, it would begin…
The flawed idealism that united the right
Modern American conservatism is composed of three distinct traditions: libertarian economics, foreign-policy hawkism and social traditionalism. This “fusion” was born…
Don’t let Russia end the old world order
While most Americans believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is morally wrong, there is in some corners a pervasive…
Is this the end of borrow and spend?
Since the spring statement last week, Rishi Sunak has been dealing with complaints from all sides: the right have been…
Labour is falling into the Tim Farron trap on sex and gender
What do you remember about Tim Farron’s time as Lib Dem leader? Was it the position he created for his…
How Boris misled MPs over partygate
The significance of today’s announcement by the Met Police that 20 individuals who unlawfully attended parties in Downing Street and the…
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…
