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A plea from a pollster: stop listening to the public
When Dominic Cummings released his WhatsApp messages with Boris Johnson earlier this month, perhaps the most alarming was the one…
The hypocrisy of Matt Hancock
Matt Hancock has not, we can agree, made it his business to lighten the public mood during the pandemic. That…
French democracy is in trouble – and the EU is to blame
France’s airwaves have been crackling with indignation this week, as politicians wring their hands at the record abstention in the first…
Boris's junk food crusade is absurd
The government is to ban ‘junk food’ adverts before the 9 p.m. watershed as well as restricting online food ads. Boris…
Is J.D. Vance the right man for the right?
J.D. Vance is the man Republicans have been praying for since the day Donald Trump stormed to the party’s presidential…
Mar-a-Lago nights with Donald Trump
Palm Beach, Florida I’d visited Mar-a-Lago before, briefly. This longer trip was my chance to get better acquainted with the…
Joe Biden is not Mr Normality
Isn’t normality great? That’s been Joe Biden’s selling point from the beginning, ‘normality’. Back in March 2020, the former conservative…
Mumford & Sons banjoist quits in cancel culture row
Oh dear. Back in March, Mumford & Sons banjoist Winston Marshall landed himself in hot water after praising a book by conservative…
Ever weaker Union: The Tories lack a constitutional theory
No doubt Michael Gove is satisfied with how his latest comments on Scottish independence have gone down. The Chancellor of…
Has the Bank of England just blown its chance to stop inflation?
The economy is growing at a blistering pace, and likely to recover all its Covid losses by the autumn. Labour…
Don't blame 'white privilege' for the plight of working-class kids
Tory MP Robert Halfon is right to say that the underachievement of white working-class students is a ‘major social injustice’. He is also…
Beware Boris's sinister crackdown on free speech
A Conservative government that boasts it is a defender of free speech against the attacks of ‘the woke’ is about…
The real reason Putin targeted HMS Defender
When military personnel talk of ‘theatres’ they mean a zone of conflict. Moscow seems to take the term increasingly literally,…
In praise of Western civilization
‘Western civilization would be a good idea,’ joked Mahatma Gandhi, one of its most successful pupils. We are accustomed to…
Time to end the MAGA madness
The Republicans need to separate the MAGA from the message. The Democrats are already doing this. While congressional Republicans pander…
A party and a half
The future of the GOP is the same as the future of the Democratic party. That is because the parties…
The Lincoln Project or Hunter Biden: who is more bulletproof?
Surely they can’t keep getting away with it. Oh, who is Cockburn kidding? Of course they can. Tuesday was a…
How to fight with your family
Like many families, mine is home to a diverse array of political orientations, ranging on an ideological spectrum from Calvin…
Forget race or class, marriage is the big social divide
The latest spark to ignite the culture wars is a report from the parliamentary education committee on the underachievement of…
HMS Defender: What's behind the Navy's Russian incident?
Assuming that reports are accurate, the world has just witnessed the most serious escalation between the UK and Russia since the…
What can Britain learn from Israel on ending lockdown?
Israel has been the world’s whole-country experiment to establish how, and how fast, Covid vaccination can return life to normal…
Viktor Orbán goes to war on the European parliament
‘Times have changed, and whereas thirty years ago we believed Europe was our future, today we understand that we are…
How Israel can block Iran's nuclear dreams
In his first press conference, Iran’s new President unequivocally objected to renegotiating the Obama-era nuclear deal. Israel’s new Prime Minister,…
Beijing's battle to crush Hong Kong's final freedoms
The Apple Daily was born on 20 June 1995. Its opening editorial was a statement of intent, setting out its stall…
Democrats: OK, now crime is a problem
The New York City mayoral race is split between two factions of Democrats: those who cut a tempered figure offering…
