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The EU should keep out of France's spat with Australia
Ursula von der Leyen has demanded a full investigation. EU officials are considering pulling out of technology talks with the…
Boris is a mini-Biden
It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself…
The Biden border crisis isn’t going away
The record influx of illegal immigrants on the southern border — and the White House’s refusal to refer to it…
Starmer's shameful silence on the Rosie Duffield trans row
One of the most shocking images from the Corbyn years of the Labour party was Luciana Berger flanked by police…
We'll all pay the price for reckless energy firms' gambling
You know that mate of yours who is always boasting they pay way less for energy than you because they’re…
Rejecting the media elite echo chamber
If the mainstream media were hoping to learn from the mistakes of 2016, there were plenty of lessons for them…
Is China’s debt-fuelled economy doomed?
For years it seemed as though China’s massively inflated property bubble would just keep on expanding, seemingly defying the laws of economics, as…
Trudeau in blackface row (again)
Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to…
Punch-up at the palace: why the Taliban is tearing itself apart
The office of the Afghan president, the Arg, sits in more than 80 acres of parkland, quadruple the size of…
The Biden presidency is in free-fall
Eight months in and I am perilously close to employing one of the worst political clichés in existence — Joe…
The ‘Justice for J6’ rally was a total dud
There used to be an old joke that there were more members of the FBI who were members of the…
J.D. Vance: Biden is unwilling to secure the southern border
All eyes are on the flyover state of Ohio as the fight for the future of Trumpism unfolds. In January,…
Ticking off the French was strategic genius
In December 2020, in the aftermath of the presidential election, Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden’s national security advisor, urged European…
Four of the worst responses to the Aukus deal
It is four days since the US, UK and Australia announced their historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific but there are few…
Xi Jinping is weaponising China's sex scandals
Zhou Xiaoxuan was in tears when she emerged from the Beijing court around midnight on Tuesday. ‘I’m really sorry there…
The sad circus of the German election
The German election campaign has been entirely lacking in substance. Laschet, Baerbock, Scholz: none seem to grip the public’s attention.…
Biden is losing Nato
The forming of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) military alliance in the Pacific shows how everything Trump can say, Biden can do.…
The real reason France was excluded from Aukus
The fallout from Australia’s cancellation of its submarine contract with France and the new trilateral Indo-Pacific security pact between Australia,…
Italy’s draconian vaccine laws are terrifyingly popular
In early August, Italy banned the unvaccinated from most forms of social life, then most forms of travel and now…
Does Liz Truss have what it takes to be Foreign Secretary?
In the dying days of Theresa May’s benighted premiership I spotted a long-serving Tory MP on the same weekend train…
Steady Eddie gets his Far East readies
The Tory party has had a difficult relationship with China in recent years. David Cameron and George Osborne’s ‘Golden era’…
Will Scottish independence really be 'Brexit times ten'?
Scottish civil servants are to start work on a ‘detailed prospectus’ for independence so the Scottish government can hold another…
Aukus is a disaster for the EU
It is hard to overstate the importance of the so-called Aukus alliance between the US, the UK and Australia —…
Are children capable of making life-changing decisions?
Keira Bell is a name that will be remembered. Like Victoria Gillick before her, she argued in the High Court…
Australia and the new special relationship
The awkwardly-named AUKUS agreement reflects Washington’s escalating concern about China’s dominance in the Indo-Pacific. It signals London’s determination to be…
