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Prince Andrew's royal excommunication is complete

14 January 2022 5:41 am

Prince Andrew has been well and truly cut adrift. By his only family. From birth, he was styled His Royal…

The decline and fall of Prince Andrew

14 January 2022 5:25 am

The final judgement, when it came, was phrased with admirable economy. This evening’s statement from Buckingham Palace said simply that:…

Will anyone stand by Prince Andrew now?

14 January 2022 4:40 am

Well, at least someone’s having a worse week than Boris Johnson. For the Queen has announced this afternoon that Prince Andrew has…

In defence of Boris: would his replacement be any better?

14 January 2022 2:51 am

Keir Starmer, aided and abetted by Boris Johnson’s many internal enemies within the Conservative party, has managed to get into…

Chinese spy suspect infiltrates parliament

14 January 2022 12:40 am

As if there wasn’t enough drama in parliament today. Peers and MPs have just been warned that a suspected agent working for the…

Could this tree planting scheme bring down Israel's prime minister?

13 January 2022 9:55 pm

Planting trees is not usually a controversial activity, especially in the eco-conscious twenty-first century. But as ever, the rules are…

Nicola Sturgeon’s disturbing attack on the rule of law

13 January 2022 9:19 pm

Lawyers with an awkward agenda can be a thorn in the government’s side in Scotland as much as in England.…

The Scottish Conservatives should not secede from Boris Johnson

13 January 2022 7:37 pm

Ideas, as a fictitious terrorist once said, are bulletproof. This might be stretching the truth a little, but at the…

Why does Priyamvada Gopal find ‘eloquence’ troubling?

13 January 2022 6:15 pm

Why should anyone feel insulted when they are described as ‘eloquent’? Priyamvada Gopal, professor of post-colonial studies at Cambridge University, felt…

Leave Enid Blyton alone

13 January 2022 6:00 pm

Once again, people are getting their knickers in a twist over Enid Blyton. Such is the capacity for outrage these…

China is the new evil empire

13 January 2022 3:01 pm

History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. In the 1980s, the gravest threat to America’s freedoms came from…

Run, Hillary, run!

13 January 2022 7:25 am

Was there an ayahuasca retreat for normie Democratic pundits last weekend that Cockburn didn’t get an invitation to? He asks…

Douglas Ross is right: Boris Johnson must go

13 January 2022 3:30 am

In May 2020 Douglas Ross resigned from Boris Johnson’s government. Though only a junior minister in the Scotland Office –…

Joe Biden has lost control of the economy

13 January 2022 3:04 am

A nudge on interest rates from the Federal Reserve. A gradual winding down of quantitative easing. No more stimulus cheques…

Why Boris might still survive

13 January 2022 3:02 am

Haunted. Ashen. Defeated. That’s how the PM looked in parliament this afternoon as he faced the flamethrowers of the opposition.…

Djokovic is a conspiracy super spreader

13 January 2022 2:30 am

When the world’s number one tennis player Novak Djokovic found himself locked in a Melbourne hotel because he’d entered Australia…

When will firms like Ben & Jerry's stop lecturing us?

13 January 2022 12:15 am

Is anyone else fed up of corporate virtue-signalling? From banks boasting of their commitment to diversity and equality, to train…

To save the Union, ignore Gordon Brown

12 January 2022 10:38 pm

As he blasts his way through the remaining support beams of the UK constitution, Gordon Brown is doing more to…

In praise of Novak Djokovic

12 January 2022 9:11 pm

Like you, I am hugely enjoying the Novak Djokovic drama Down Under. What’s not to like? It is extremely funny.…

The Tories hold themselves in contempt

12 January 2022 9:10 pm

If by the end of today 54 members of the parliamentary Conservative party have not handed in the letters required…

The mind virus killing academia

12 January 2022 6:00 pm

We lost a giant last month with E.O. Wilson’s passing. A man who stood on Darwin’s shoulders, Wilson had that…

America still won’t risk a war with Russia over Ukraine

12 January 2022 2:39 pm

Anybody who thought this week’s intense diplomacy between American, European, and Russian officials would magically resolve the ongoing crisis in…

AOC and the Florida freedom virus

12 January 2022 2:38 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, like many a New York progressive, headed down to the Sunshine State recently. First she was photographed having…

Boris Johnson is running out of road

12 January 2022 5:05 am

There has been no good news for Boris Johnson today. After an email leaked on Monday evening showing that the Prime…

Leave Ted Cruz’s daughter alone!

12 January 2022 3:44 am

Ted Cruz’s thirteen-year-old daughter Caroline found herself in the sinister gaze of a blog called LGBTQNation this week. Cockburn is…