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HR 1 is an existential threat to American democracy
On Wednesday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi dragooned all but one Democrat into voting for her total rewrite of the nation’s…
The difficulty of cracking down on ‘hate’
In general, my experience as a British Sikh has been overwhelmingly positive in my life. Most people who know anything…
Biden must learn from Trump's mistakes on North Korea
Anniversaries are usually celebratory occasions, but not this one. It’s now been two years since the infamous Hanoi summit between Donald…
This was a Budget for the end of the Covid crisis
The Chancellor’s crisis management has been excellent. The Budget was another reflection of that, as Rishi Sunak unveiled further significant,…
Is your three-month-old baby racist?
Conservatives like feeling outraged, but they don’t often like to earn their outrage. For most, it’s enough to wait for…
Rishi Sunak is a prime minister in waiting
It is always a pleasure to see a first-rate mind in action, as we did during today’s Budget. Equally, when…
Will Rishi Sunak's Budget give Britain the boost it needs?
For a man who has only delivered two Budgets, Rishi Sunak is no stranger to fiscal announcements. Last March’s £30bn spending…
Megxit and the War of the Waleses
A 99-year-old prince is in hospital. His 94-year-old wife is displaying an almost childish delight as she continues to dip…
Glory Hallelujah for Texas!
Even in the quick-as-a-wink world of democratic politics, where calculations change at slot-machine speed, you can feel major moments growling…
Is the news making us unwell?
Since the start of the pandemic I’ve been observing friends and family and their reactions to the virus. Broadly speaking…
America's Russian sanctions are futile
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to approach Russia and its irascible President Vladimir Putin with a new…
There’s no equality in equity
It’s hard to keep them all straight, but among the many diktats emitted by the Biden administration during its first days in office,…
Nicola Sturgeon is fighting for her political life
The Alex Salmond inquiry has seen its most remarkable day yet. Three pivotal documents have been released to the Holyrood…
Taxpayers stump up £18,000 for slavery audit
It seems it’s a costly business putting together a historical report. In fact, it took two researchers and a grand…
Trump freezes the 2024 field
Donald Trump is not retiring. He’s not disappearing to live the range life and he has no intentions of remaining…
Cuomo’s problem isn’t #MeToo. It’s killing old people
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is finally getting his comeuppance. Oddly, however, it’s not for killing thousands of nursing home…
Welcome to Trump’s second term
President Biden’s emphatic assertion that ‘America is back’ at the Munich Security Conference last month was met with a lukewarm…
Kazuo Ishiguro is right about cancel culture
When the Kuwaiti authorities banned nearly 1,000 books from the Kuwait International Literature festival including Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the…
The Green party is missing a trick
The British left is moribund. The Labour party’s ratings are sliding under Sir Keir Starmer, aka ‘Captain Hindsight’, as he…
Why does this activist think a white person can't translate Amanda Gorman?
She is the darling of the nation, the star of the inauguration, the first US National Youth Poet Laureate: she…
HR 1 must be stopped
There is a reason Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called her 791-page bill, stuffed as it is with her favorite election-related…
Scotland could become the EU's next great problem
It is generally acknowledged, even by diehard Remainers, that the European Union’s handling of Cameron’s attempted renegotiation of the UK’s…
President Biden vs Dr Seuss
The children’s author Theodore Seuss Geisel lived his entire life not just as a staunch progressive, but even as the…
Who killed Chicago?
‘I wonder if you might do a “notebook” on living in Chicago at the moment,’ my London-based editor inquired via email. ‘The latest…
The West’s vaccine complacency
Today, in their first bilateral summit, Joe Biden will meet (virtually) Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Among other things…
