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France, football and Marine Le Pen’s war on a French rapper
‘Dans ce rêve où ma semence de nègre fout en cloque cette chienne de Marine Le Pen.’ You don’t have…
Should we mix Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid jabs?
Should the NHS be mixing vaccines for better effect, or at least offering people who have had one dose of…
The German takeover of the EU is accelerating
Vetoes should no longer be allowed. Smaller countries should not be able to block the will of the ‘majority’. And…
DeSantis pads his résumé with anti-CCP bills
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed two more pieces of major legislation on Monday, this time targeting Chinese Communist party influence…
Political asylum? There’s an app for that
Apps are the 21st century’s answer to everything, it seems to Cockburn. Faced with a problem, sooner or later some…
Matt Walsh, AOC and the limits of ‘own-the-libs conservatism’
On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued an anguished tweet about the living conditions of her grandmother in Puerto Rico, whose…
Lab leaks and the return of X-Files politics
It began last month when the Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology had…
The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage
While war raged between Israel and Gaza, the New York Times published a powerful montage of 64 minors said to…
How a Polish coal mine risks derailing the EU's climate strategy
Cracks are appearing in the EU’s climate strategy. An international dispute over the court-ordered closure of a coal mine on…
Why the far-right flourishes in East Germany
A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the AfD. Having come to prominence on a wave of anti-migrant…
Does Google really understand racism?
Opponents of the new racial extremism typically object that it vilifies white people in much the same way that classical…
The hidden costs of the G7 tax deal
Calls to reform corporation tax are nothing new and don’t just come from the left. The inefficient and bureaucratic nature…
Let the president play on the beach or the golf course
Every president is criticized, sooner or later, for taking too many days off, for lounging around when we’ve hired him…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
Why is Macron feigning outrage at the Danish spying scandal?
The feigned outrage in Berlin – but mostly in Paris – at the USA’s proxy use of Denmark’s intelligence services…
The UN’s anti-racism mission excludes Jews
António Guterres, the UN’s secretary-general, has described rising anti-Semitism as a ‘multi-headed monster’ of intolerance that’s creating a ‘tsunami of…
The flailing Fauci fandom
Dr Anthony Fauci has exhibited plenty of behavioral red flags over the past year. Don’t believe me? Google ‘Fauci magazine…
Stonewall’s dystopian attacks on gendered language
Today brings yet more proof that Liz Truss is dead right to want to withdraw government departments from Stonewall’s Diversity…
Does the Indian variant increase the risk of hospitalisation?
Is the Indian variant really more like to land you in hospital? That is the claim being widely reported this…
Have we hit peak graduate?
The Tory party has turned sharply against the idea of ever larger numbers going to university. The reasons for this…
Can’t Texas decide how to run its own elections?
Who’d have thought — I wouldn’t have, speaking as a seventh-generation Texan — that the Texas legislature would be held…
Joe Biden’s day off
Joe Biden may be the leader of the free world, but that hasn’t stopped him from taking retirement. The President…
Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Square vigil will be different this year
Every year since the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, Hong Kongers have gathered in their thousands…
Boris clamps down on foreign travel over Covid variant fears
Those hoping for a holiday abroad this summer were dealt a blow this afternoon with the announcement of the government’s…
What does the future hold for Donald Trump?
Don’t call it a comeback! Whether it’s by popular acclamation or by a coup, as former national security adviser Michael…
