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Joe Biden, master of puppets?
They’ve finally found a way to make Joe Biden look young and vigorous: put him next to a Jimmy Carter…
The rise of the female ambassador
It is, of course, an excellent thing and a mark of social progress when an institutional bastion falls to woman-power.…
The dividing wall between law and politics is under attack
All my legal life I have watched with sadness those who are ever groping, Gollum-like, unable to resist the idea…
BBC makes a cameo in SNP election campaign
The SNP’s latest election graphic will make for uncomfortable viewing at BBC Scotland. As tweeted by Nicola Sturgeon today, the…
Scottish independence case is built on myths, denial and conspiracy theoriesiesendence case is built on myths, denial and conspiracy theories
Anyone who engages in online debate about the case for Scottish independence will have encountered Scottish nationalist fact-deniers and myth-spreaders…
Meet the male Karens
Several weeks back, I went for a run in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria in Northern Virginia. It’s the…
Migrant smuggling is one of Lebanon’s last businesses
Ibrahim Lachine sold his mother’s furniture to pay for a place on a smuggler’s boat from Lebanon to Cyprus and…
Caitlyn Jenner is right about transgender athletes and women’s sports
Caitlyn Jenner – gold medallist in the men’s decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics – is now in the running…
Sunday shows round-up: Boris should resign if he broke Ministerial Code
Douglas Ross – PM should resign if he broke the Ministerial Code Andrew Marr’s first guest of the day was…
Ireland’s low-tax miracle is over
Okay, in fairness it might be the weather. Or the craic in the bars. Or the rugged coastline, golf courses,…
France’s military wages war on Macron’s values
On 21 April 1961 France’s most senior generals staged a putsch in French Algiers, still an integral part of France.…
How China is stoking racial tensions in the West
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
Europe should be wary of Biden's cuddly capitalism
Judging by the European press’ reaction to his address to Congress this week, US president Joe Biden’s domestic agenda is…
Putin and Biden need one another
Does Joe Biden think that Putin is a killer? asked ABC host George Stephanopoulos. ‘Mmm-hmm, I do,’ answered the President.…
The strange truth about Japan’s climate change target
Japan has just raised its target for reducing carbon emissions from 26 percent to 46 percent (by 2030 from 2013…
Zac Goldsmith, No. 10's rapid rebuttal service
It’s a tough gig defending this government. So tough in fact that the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson Allegra Stratton left…
What Arlene Foster’s ousting means for Northern Ireland – and the Union
The brutal defenestration of Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party could have severe implications for an already…
Racism has become a kind of theory of everything
‘If you hate wokeness, you should vote for Joe Biden.’ So said writer and academic Yascha Mounk in the Atlantic in…
Andrew Cuomo will get away with it all
Andrew Cuomo could murder thousands of senior citizens in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter.…
How Tory MPs plan to clip Cummings' wings
On 26 May, Dominic Cummings will give evidence to MPs grouped on the health and science super committee, chaired by…
Alexei Navalny's big gamble
Alexei Navalny seems to undergoing a metamorphosis. Yesterday, we saw him attending another trial by video, looking gaunt after 24…
Tim Scott’s rebuttal marches the GOP towards obscurity
Before the bombs and bullets of World War One reshaped life as we know it, for ‘the vast majority of…
Does ‘anti-racism’ also mean slurring black conservatives?
The latest target for online mobs is South Carolina’s Republican senator Tim Scott. His ‘crime’ is apparently being a black…
Is Nicola Sturgeon in for a scare in her own seat?
Political geeks of a certain vintage are still nostalgic for that Portillo moment when, at 3.10am on 2 May 1997,…
Vaccine passports for mass events might be the worst of all worlds
Are vaccine passports in our future? The ‘Covid-status certification’ review is underway, carved out of the Prime Minister’s roadmap and…
