World
The coming war with…um…Canada?
We begin today by heading north, past Vermont, over Winterfell, above the Arctic Circle, beyond the part of the map…
Germany is toothless when it comes to facing down Russia
Ukraine’s list of demands towards Germany is straightforward: it wants Berlin to stand up to Russia. With tens of thousands of Russian…
Banning tomato ketchup sachets won't save the planet
Warning to the working classes: the government is coming after your pleasures again. It is you who are being blamed…
How long until we tire of Boris?
The brilliant but troubled footballer Mario Balotelli once scored a goal in a Manchester derby match and then lifted up…
The unfathomable inadequacy of Boris Johnson
There is no room for wriggling here and not just because multiple witnesses put Boris Johnson and his wife at…
Was the Kazakhstan uprising an attempted Jihadi takeover?
The Kazakh uprising is over. The stench of burnt-out vehicles and bombed out buildings in Kazakhstan’s most populous city and…
E.O. Wilson and the climate cult
Famed ant specialist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson passed away on December 26, age ninety-two. He came to national attention in 1975 with the…
Will Marion Maréchal-Le Pen join Éric Zemmour’s campaign?
Is Marion Maréchal, granddaughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen and niece of Marine, about to emerge from political retirement to support…
Covid and the rise of the Zoom class
On November 6, 2021, the California petroleum heiress Ivy Getty married the photographer Tobias Engel at San Francisco City Hall.…
What does Neville Chamberlain have in common with Brexiteers?
The false notes in Netflix’s adaptation of Robert Harris’s Munich come in the final scenes. Jeremy Irons, who has been…
Macron's anti-vaxxer bashing will backfire in France's 'lost territories'
Who are the ten per cent of the French population that Emmanuel Macron wishes to ’emmerder’ or, as we say…
We should be thankful for the Sackler family's philanthropy
When the whole opioid crisis blew up, the Sackler family — whose fortune was substantially built on getting thousands of…
Johnson's critics are circling once again
As Boris Johnson feels he has been vindicated in his resistance to new Covid restrictions, Downing Street had hoped that…
Will the Queen get her just desserts?
Victoria sponge, cherries jubilee and coronation chicken: a trio of Britain’s best loved foods, all of which share a monarchical theme. Each of…
Antony Blinken’s soundtrack to failure
Antony Blinken, the secretary of state and first guitarist, has broken with the tired protocols of the past, faced the…
What was Ted Cruz thinking?
At least since the 2016 election, one of my favorites politicians — one of the few I could stomach at…
The EU rules creating an armada of empty ‘ghost flights’
This week it was reported that Lufthansa Group – which also owns Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss International…
Covid has made America more divided than ever
I knew when I boarded the plane home to America on Boxing Day that I was heading to an unhappy…
Goodbye Bill de Blasio, New York-hating communist
At the stroke of midnight on January 1, Bill de Blasio — New York’s bumbling, mildly sinister but profoundly incompetent…
America is in a state of mass formation paralysis
Unless you happen to live under a rock, this week you became aware of Dr. Robert Malone. He’s a virologist…
The Pope is right: it is selfish to choose pets over children
Well, we’ve been terrifically amused and amusing at the expense of Pope Francis, who this week declared at a Vatican…
Welcome to the end of democracy
We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian…
Masks in schools: how convincing is the government's evidence?
Why has the government changed its mind and asked children to wear masks in school? When Plan B was announced…
Why is Bilbo Baggins a fascist favourite?
If you were asked to think of a perfect fascist, never in a month of Sundays would you suggest Bilbo Baggins…
Will universities declare their China funding?
Britain’s leading universities are just one sector having to grapple with the recent decline in UK-China relations. Barely six years…
