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What's the point of vaccine passports?
What is the purpose of vaccine passports: to keep down infection or to try to persuade more people to get…
Durham students try to cancel Rod Liddle
The University of Durham has boasted many distinguished students over the years: Sir Harold Evans, Justin Welby, Andrew Strauss and…
Kay Burley's party hypocrisy
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – except if you’re working in Boris Johnson’s press office. Much has been…
Mispronouncing names isn't a 'microaggression'
People can make a bewildering number of offensive transgressions these days: from using the wrong pronoun when addressing people to…
Boycott the 2022 China Olympics
Anything short of a full boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is an abdication of America’s responsibilities and a rejection…
Meghan woz right
The Duchess of Sussex’s legal ding-dong with the Mail on Sunday (which published her private correspondence with her father) has…
Why there is more Omicron than we know
Yesterday the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) announced it had identified another 26 Omicron cases, and the total number of…
Meet the Brexit-hating Macron clone who could be the next French president
The best way to describe Valérie Pécresse is Emmanuel Macron in a blouse. The newly-elected candidate for Les Republicans (LR)…
Mossad is prepraring to strike at the heart of Iran’s nuclear programme
Iran is about to be hit by a fresh wave of Mossad operations, sources in Jerusalem have told me. This…
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and our broken child protection system
The official sentencing remarks on the short life and cruel death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes begin with this trigger warning from…
How’s ‘shutting down the virus’ going, Joe?
We are less than a month away from entering 2022 — so why does it feel like March 2020 all…
Why America needs a grand bargain with Russia
Russian is losing influence in a region it once dominated: Eastern Europe. Highlighting this newfound weakness are Ukraine and Belarus,…
Abortion rights: the cracks are showing in Roe v. Wade
Crowds gathered outside of the Supreme Court this week as the Court prepared to hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson…
Why Viktor Orbán is fighting a war against ‘LGBT ideology’
‘Do you support the unrestricted presentation of sexual media content that influences the development of underage children?’ In a national…
The sinister side of Meghan’s court victory
Reading the Duchess of Sussex’s press release after the Court of Appeal upheld her privacy case against the Mail on…
Why has Shell really decided to ditch the Cambo oil field?
One of the unfortunate side effects of a steeply rising oil price this year is that it seems to have…
Let Cockburn debase himself at your Christmas party
It is, as Andy Williams memorably put it, the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas party season has hit…
Will Germany's compulsory vaccine plan backfire?
Covid was probably the last thing on Angela Merkel’s mind as she listened to the East German pop tunes of…
Eric Zemmour's big weakness has been exposed
George W Bush will forever be in debt to The Donald. Before Trump became the 45th president of the United…
Is Twitter about to step up its censorship?
Farewell then @jack. Jack Dorsey’s departure from Twitter on Monday came as no surprise given that the firm Elliott Management,…
Why it matters that tennis is standing up to Beijing
The commercial road to Beijing is littered with grovelling apologies, cringeworthy kowtows and silent complicity in repression. That’s why the…
Jimmy Carr's anti-vaxxer joke isn't funny
Jimmy Carr was once the smug face of shock comedy. As a stand-up comedian, and a host of various comedy…
Will the end of monarchy in Barbados spark a chain reaction?
As of this week, the Queen is down to 15 thrones, after the royal standard was lowered in Barbados in…
Donald Trump understands how Prince Harry’s mind works
Last night Nigel Farage delivered the shortest hour-long interview in TV history. GB News had cleared 60 minutes of the…
Democrats’ only hope for 2024: jail Trump
The Democrats’ only possible path forward is to ensure that Trump does not run in 2024. So they want to…
