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Covid cases are falling – but don’t think it’s all over
The official Covid-19 dashboard has turned green and cases appear to have peaked, at least for now. You hear a…
Emmanuel Macron’s dangerous infantilisation of the French
From St Tropez to La Rochelle to Deauville, there is a familiar sight this summer in many of France’s most…
Don't fall for Rishi Sunak's 'Britcoin'
Do we need an officially-sanctioned, government-backed crypto-currency underwritten by sterling – a ‘Britcoin’ – as Rishi Sunak is said to…
We need to act now to block Britain’s social credit system
I have to admit that I didn’t quite get it right when, 12 days ago, I wrote: ‘There is a…
China’s Belt and Road to Damascus
There is, it seems, no regime too odious to be a partner of China. Being repressive and corrupt have long…
Why we need bullfighting
Which US state will be first to legalize bullfighting? OK, I need to qualify the question. A few bloodless corridas were…
Will Dr Fauci ever take responsibility for COVID’s emergence?
Listening to the testy exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and St — er, Dr Anthony Fauci the other day, I couldn’t…
Boris could make devolution reform his legacy – if he has the ambition
Today marks two years since Boris Johnson accepted Her Majesty’s invitation to serve as her fourteenth Prime Minister. His tenure…
Is Boris Johnson allowed to pick the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was shirty with me when I asked him whether he was now…
Labour is picking the wrong fight with Priti Patel
The position of Home Secretary Priti Patel is clearly untenable. Presumably this means she must resign. Who says so? Why,…
We conspiracists, we happy few
What makes America America? An answer available to most of us is our shared dedication to the principles of liberty…
The rise of the noble liar
For four years the mainstream media kept a tally of every lie President Trump ever told. Fact-checkers like the Washington…
The monsters we become
Nietzsche would have been great at Twitter. He excelled at epigrams, which are to philosophy as the fortune-cookie motto is…
No vax, no vote? Macron's vaccine passport plan sparks fury
Will it be necessary to produce a passe sanitaire (vaccination passport) to be allowed to vote in France? With 221…
There's nothing wrong with Macron's war on Islamism
It’s always the French, isn’t it? Not content with having given the modern world existentialism, structuralism, deconstructionism (with some help…
Are we dangerously addicted to Quantitative Easing?
For such a radical change to our monetary system, the lack of understanding of quantitative easing (QE) and its impacts…
My country, right or left
A funny thing happened to me this Fourth of July and, at the risk of having every jaded member of…
Anti-anti-crime policies are ruining American cities
I didn’t meet Davell Gardner Jr. Yet his photo — and the bubbly personality it captures — will forever remain…
Tory conference to require vaccine passports
Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday that Covid passports could be introduced for mass events from September did not got down…
Pope Francis is losing his culture war
Since I wroteabout the Pope’s declaration of war on the Old Rite, something unexpected and beautiful has happened. Many bishops…
How do the Tories stop the rise of an ever-bigger state?
When Gordon Brown raised National Insurance in 2002 to put more money into the health service, it was seen as…
What the NHS pay rise says about Boris Johnson's priorities
Well, that didn’t take long. Two days ago, a leaked report revealed that the government was considering using a national insurance…
Myanmar is on the verge of collapse
Deep in southeast Asia sits a country where 54 million people are living a total nightmare. A nation that, benighted…
The disgraceful decision to remove Liverpool’s heritage status
Unesco has cancelled the ‘World Heritage Status’ of the Necropolis at Memphis and the Giza Pyramid because a Radisson Blu…
Northern Irish unionists are united against the protocol
The DUP’s departed leader Edwin Poots spoke in his valedictory interview of a ‘significant victory’ heading unionism’s way regarding its…
