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Boris could pay a big price for his flawed social care shake-up
Boris Johnson pledged to ‘fix the crisis in social care’ over two years ago. Next week, the Prime Minister is…
Ken Cuccinelli: Afghans flown to US ‘not being vetted’
Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli said Thursday that the United States has flown in thousands of Afghan…
The Taliban didn’t beat America. Afghanistan did
The late Edward Said invented, or at least brought into vogue, the notion of Orientalism. For a time this became…
Justin Trudeau’s election gamble is backfiring
In 1966, a year before Pierre Elliott Trudeau first blazed to power, the bard-poet Leonard Cohen published his second and final…
France's provocateur is coming to London
Five years ago, London’s affluent French poured their dosh into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. This time around, supporters of…
Scotland's census sex muddle is bad news for transgender people
What is your sex? It is a simple question and one that we can all surely answer. When it comes…
Could a left-wing coalition end up running Germany?
A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the left. As Merkel’s Christian Democrats fall further behind in the…
When will Twitter treat Biden like Trump?
With the conclusion of the disastrously-executed Afghanistan withdrawal, the attention of Joe Biden and his loyal media apparatchiks has turned to…
Fact check: how much US kit have the Taliban got?
With the war in Afghanistan having officially ended on Monday, the world’s thoughts have turned to how the Taliban will…
Should Britain brace itself for a major flu outbreak this winter?
Could flu be a bigger problem than Covid this winter? Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the Joint Committee on…
How Germany's Free Democratic party capitalised on the AfD's misfortunes
One of the most remarkable stories to come out of Germany in the last year has been the rise of…
The Bank of England's new monetary hawk
Andy Haldane’s departure from the Bank of England opened up one of the most influential roles in guiding UK monetary…
Is the EU trying to hamstring the French military?
Much recent discussion has focussed on the collapse of Afghanistan and the decline of the West. The humiliating American-led Western…
Joe Biden’s victory lap around Afghan defeat
President Biden walked to the White House podium on Tuesday and proclaimed the US withdrawal from Afghanistan an ‘extraordinary success’.…
The grim rise of antivax death porn
America is a porned-out society. Half of young men and a fifth of young women admit to viewing porn in…
Joe Biden is not the grief whisperer
Since when is the President of the United States everyone’s therapist? Since the 2020 presidential election, when Democratic politicians and…
Is troubled Trudeau the new Theresa May?
Oh dear. For years Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been at pains to prove his feminist credentials. Whether it’s correcting a…
On child vaccination, parents should have the choice
On Saturday, the Health Secretary made his most bullish comments on child vaccination so far. Writing in the Times, Sajid Javid argued that…
Was Hurricane Ida really caused by climate change?
It’s climate change, innit? No sooner had Hurricane Ida smashed into the coast of Louisiana with winds of around 150…
The Tunisian paradox
‘We swore to defend the constitution,’ shouted the deputy speaker of the Tunisian parliament, to which a young soldier retorted,…
Covid collapse fails to revive MPs' bars
The bars at Parliament have played host to many scenes over the years – plots, arguments, merriment and even fisticuffs –…
What can’t civil rights law do?
The Biden administration fired a stern warning to five states on Monday afternoon, warning them that forcing all students to…
Zero-Covid is wishful thinking if Australia wants to rejoin the world
As former Australian foreign minister and High Commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer wrote in last week’s magazine, almost all…
The battle for Eastern Europe’s energy sector
The fight to power eastern Europe is heating up. As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet Joe Biden at the…
The Liberal Democrats have a dangerous vision for the City of London
Liberals have always set great store by laws and declarations. It was joked about Lord Loreburn, the liberal Lord Chancellor…
