World
Jess Phillips is wrong about football’s double-barrelled surnames
As the nation went football mad last week, nowhere was there a more stark expression of the ‘I’m-new-to-this performative fandom’…
Welsh independence faces an existential crisis
Wales has never embraced the notion of independence and perhaps never will. So it was unsurprising that YesCymru, a grassroots…
The Queen praises England's 'spirit, commitment and pride'
In a heartfelt letter addressed to Gareth Southgate, HM the Queen has sent her ‘good wishes’ to the team and praised…
What's the problem with Gareth Southgate's 'war talk'?
War analogies are a cherished football tradition. From chants of ‘Stand up if you won the war’ to the Daily…
North Korea's cryptic crisis
For years, the West has tried to cajole the North Korean regime using sanctions, much to the frustration of Kim…
Justin Trudeau isn't the progressive leader he thinks he is
It came as no surprise to me to see activists ‘celebrating’ Canada Day by setting fire to churches and toppling…
The Soviet spectre haunting Afghanistan
As US and British forces pull out of Afghanistan, further victims of the ‘grave of empires’, Russia is experiencing a mix…
Boris's cunning has allowed him to share in England's Euro 2020 glory
You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. That was the formula of legendary New York governor Mario Cuomo and…
Terf war embroils Guardian HQ
Fractious times over at Guardian towers. The long-running battle between Kath Viner, the paper’s editor, and Anette Thomas, the media…
Leave, convert or perish: The fate of Afghanistan's minorities
President Biden’s decision to ‘end the war in Afghanistan’ means the complete withdrawal of 3,500 US troops by the 20th…
The Kremlin's plan to destabilise the West
On Sunday, Russia releasedits new National Security Strategy. In many ways, it picked up from where the 2015 version left…
Boris Johnson's survival rests on reforming Whitehall
More than 40 years after it was written there are still lines in Yes Minister that are painfully accurate about how…
Have Southgate’s England lost their moral compass?
Back in the 1980s the BBC Match of the Day opening credits featured a clip of Manchester United winger Mickey…
Travel quarantine scrapped for double-jabbed
International travel rules will be relaxed on 19 June as part of the wider scrapping of social distancing rules and masks.…
Stop politicising football
Before the England football team plays in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday we need to get one thing straight: who…
Why is Trump banned from Twitter when the Taliban isn’t?
As we approach the final withdrawal of all US and Nato forces from Afghanistan, it’s worth pointing out a shocking…
Why I’m not proud to be a Canadian
It came as no surprise to me to see activists ‘celebrating’ Canada Day by setting fire to churches and toppling…
Freedom day will usher in new problems for the Tories
The next few weeks in politics will be dominated by the 19 July reopening, and whether hospitals can cope with the…
Why has the EU let German car manufacturers off the hook?
Two billion? Five billion? Perhaps ten billion to make it a nice round number? For colluding on diesel emissions you…
Lukashenko’s migrant warfare against the EU
When you have already forced a plane down with spurious claims of a bomb threat, just to arrest one dissident…
Britain should resist copying the EU's corporate responsibility law
Big corporations have a lot not to be proud of, and we certainly could do with laws to rein in…
Don't 'Kill the Bill'
Are the rights of protesters and the rights of all other citizens fairly balanced? Think back to the Extinction Rebellion…
Follow the science – it's time to unlock
Shortly before Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer were slugging it out in PMQs — debating whether the mass-lifting of restrictions…
The mystery of Havana syndrome
In late 2016, an official at the US Embassy in Cuba woke up in the middle of the night with…
Is the Lincoln Project going left?
The Twinkin Project scrambled together enough donor cash to hire Democratic strategist Joe Trippi as a senior adviser, the group…
