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What if we aren’t ready to live with Covid?
Quite the constitutional twist, yesterday. Just as what Walter Bagehot called the efficient side of our ruling set-up was merrily…
Will Boris Johnson's big week be undone by partygate?
When Boris Johnson gave an interview on Sunday to the BBC’s Sophie Raworth, he was not keen to talk about…
China and Russia are an alliance of disruptors
Four years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping made pancakes together in Vladivostok while thousands of their military forces conducted…
The cost of living
“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the…
The US and India in a new world
The world’s center of gravity is shifting to the Indo-Pacific. The new global order will be shaped by developments in…
The quiet rise of the other Asians
You don’t have to be obsessed with racial calculations to consider the possibility that the next presidential election in the…
Man flu is real
Over New Year’s, I came down with the Omicron. Or as I put it to my wife, civilization as I…
Mother’s milk is good for you
I had my first taste of breast milk after a training session at a garage gym. We swap tips and…
How conservatives concede the culture
Conservatives suffer from a short attention span, and it largely explains their defeats in the culture war. They fight every…
Why Glenn Greenwald backs Putin
Few things are sure in life: death, taxes and Glenn Greenwald advocating whatever position happens to be in the interests…
Welcome to MSNBC U
By the way the left drones on about disinformation, you would think that Trump-supporting boomer rubes were the only ones…
Does Vance have a chance?
Six short years ago, J.D. Vance penned a piece in the Atlantic comparing Donald Trump to opioids. “Trump’s promises are…
Britain is trapped in a Boomerocracy
‘If the young knew what was good for them’ the historian Niall Ferguson once remarked, ‘they’d join the Tea party’.…
The pointless tyranny of Italy’s Covid pass
While most European countries, especially Britain, are relaxing their Covid restrictions, Italy which has the toughest of the lot, this…
On Sage’s Covid models
In the confusion that has arisen from the demonstrable inability of a certain type of mathematical model to predict the…
What is so enraging about a group of white men?
Pity the poor 41 Club. The last time an image of a group of men eating dinner caused this much…
The foie gras and fur ban was never really about animal suffering
Well, too bad Carrie and Zac. It looks like the government is going to drop its commitment to banning imports…
Macron’s energy intervention has seriously backfired
He intervened decisively. He showed the ability of the state to make a difference. And he demonstrated that greedy, self-interested…
How schools are captured by ideological institutions
This week, Nadeem Zahawi told teachers that they have ‘an important role in preparing children and young people for life…
Is Rishi Sunak any good at politics?
Is Rishi Sunak any good at politics? In recent days Labour sources have been putting it about that they no…
Biden is ‘convinced’ Putin will invade Ukraine. Is Putin?
The only thing more sombre than President Joe Biden’s tone at his press conference on Friday afternoon was his funereal…
Boris is about to give Silicon Valley censors more power than ever
Four years in the making, the Online Safety Bill has now been sent to senior ministers for review — a…
The Chinese Communist Party always medals in moral corruption
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will draw to a close on Sunday, and few will mourn its passing. The spectacle…
State schools and the rise of posh apprenticeships
Recently, a friend forwarded me a letter he’d received from his children’s school, an independent secondary in London, to mark…
How to resist the age of grievance
At a recent session of the Virginia House of Delegates, Don Scott, a Democrat, blasted Republicans for employing “the old…
