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Did Dom Cummings save the Queen?
For a man who professes to despise the media, Dominic Cummings is certainly adept at courting it. The former No…
Kicking out the cranks won't save Labour
There is a problem with Sir Keir Starmer’s reported plan to expel 1,000 Labour members associated with ‘poisonous’ groups, and…
No Love for pornstar Brandi at the Turning Point summit
Porn star Brandi Love made waves at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Tampa this weekend after the group…
How the Pentagon got rich from Afghanistan
The departure of American troops from Afghanistan is being lamented (or hailed — see the Chinese press, passim) as a…
My coup would have been better than your coup
Donald Trump has issued another statement after being criticized by his former staffers in recent days. Here’s an excerpt: ‘Every…
Can you afford AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ sweater?
The revolution may or may not be televised. But it will be turned into branded merch to be sold through…
Boris Johnson's sombre 'freedom day' press conference
On the day that nearly all legal Covid restrictions go, one could be forgiven for presuming ministers would be in the…
Joe Biden’s digital serfs
The Biden administration intends to notify Facebook about ‘problematic’ postings, such as questioning the COVID-19 vaccine. Jen Psaki, the White…
The depressing spectacle of ‘freedom day’
It was billed as ‘freedom day’. Yet few people, it seems, either want to enjoy their new-found freedom or are…
China is the latest victim of Pakistan's Islamist problem
Nine Chinese engineers were killed in an explosion near Pakistan’s Dasu hydroelectric dam last Wednesday. The government initially said that their…
There's no such thing as 'woke coke'
Have you heard about ‘Woke Coke’ – ‘Wokaine’, if you will? Apparently drug dealers are now targeting the WaWs (Woke…
Tokyo's doomed Olympics could be the worst yet
The Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics, which begins on Friday, looks set to be one of the worst in the event’s history. A…
Is climate change to blame for Germany’s flooding?
Greta Thunberg has declared the floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands to be the product of man-made climate change,…
How ‘freedom day’ became ‘chaos day’
Welcome to ‘freedom day’, or more properly ‘chaos day’ – with businesses warning they can’t operate because too many employees…
Macron’s vaccine passports are a betrayal of French values
What a celebration of diversity I witnessed in Paris on Saturday as tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the…
Ministers are compounding the Covid confusion
After several hours of rage that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were going to be able to avoid self-isolation —…
The arrogance of Boris and Rishi's failed isolation dodge
It’s hard to break into the global top ten of insufferably arrogant political acts. You need to do something really memorable…
The art of selling vaccines
I was bemused when I first saw the photograph of spaced-out chairs and vaccination booths in the Turbine Hall of the…
Jess Phillips and the assault on biology
Jess Phillips thinks that transwomen — like me — are not female, but we should be treated as women. She…
Sturgeon’s economic council is a fig-leaf for independence
This month’s announcementof a new economic advisory council formed by the Scottish government came with the usual flow of superlatives.…
Will Afghanistan fall to the Taleban?
A last-ditch effort to broker peace in Afghanistan will be made in the Qatari capital of Doha this weekend. A…
Getting UN help on American civil rights is a great idea
The small-minded people who believe in freedom and democratic self-government have their shorts in a bunch over the Biden administration’s…
Double-vaxxed Saj tests positive: who's getting pinged?
As the government prepares to lift nearly all legal Covid restrictions on Monday, ministers are at pains to emphasise that…
The Pope's merciless war against the Old Rite
I am going to have to boil this down as crudely as I can, because it’s a complex subject with a…
Three horse race to join the 1922 executive
There are just six days left before the Commons rises for recess but there’s still time for one last election.…
