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The EU's Brexit bill doesn't add up
A dozen hospitals. A hundred million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, and a lot more of the Oxford one. Or…
Whitty's lockdown warning will trouble Boris
In a Science Museum webinar yesterday, Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer, warned about the increasing number of people in…
The Marcus Rashford mural – an anatomy of a moral panic
Late on Sunday night, less than an hour after England lost on penalties to Italy in the European championship final,…
Glenn Greenwald: America First conservatives shouldn’t support unrest in Cuba
Glenn Greenwald wants right-wing populists to understand that the CIA is not their friend. On Sunday thousands of Cubans swarmed…
In defence of levelling up
Modern pragmatist political leaders are generally keen to reassure us that there is a unifying philosophy to be found running…
Abortion should not be a party-political issue
It’s the culture, stupid. The economy no longer governs voters’ choices. When I was making videos around the US to…
Why are Labour MPs excusing Cuba’s authoritarian regime?
Thousands have taken to the streets in Cuba this week to protest against the authoritarian government that rules over them.…
The rise of the unwhippable Tories
When the government announced a Commons vote on its decision to cut the foreign aid budget from 0.7 per cent…
The uninspiring choice facing German voters
The gloves are off in Germany’s electoral race. As personal insults are traded and skeletons dragged from their closets, even…
Does the Green party care more about trans rights than the environment?
Our planet is in a mess. Ice caps are melting and the glaciers are retreating. This summer in Canada, the…
Why Israel is rolling-out third vaccine doses
It’s time to think about your third Covid vaccine dose. That might sound like a premature suggestion when many people…
Britain is a tolerant country and a few football racists don't change that
The racist messages sent to England football players in recent days are shameful, but to suggest that the UK is a festering hotbed…
Tucker blames Trump for 2020 election loss
Tucker Carlson has never shied from diverging with the GOP orthodoxy. In a recent interview with the prestigious Swiss magazine…
George Bush's attack on Joe Biden's Afghan strategy is hard to take
The world doesn’t hear a lot from George W. Bush these days. The former president of the United States has…
The fugitive Texas Democrats are vain, self-promoting cry-babies
Off to Washington DC on Monday they flew, maskless with Miller Lites in hand — three-score Democratic members of the…
Why is the EU copying China’s Belt and Road initiative?
Much like Mark Twain’s apocryphal quote about arguing with idiots who ‘drag you down to their level and beat you…
What's behind the South African riots?
South Africa is ablaze once more. In the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal (formerly Natal) and Gauteng (which includes Johannesburg and Pretoria),…
Michael Gove's paper-thin case for Covid passports
Next Monday is ‘freedom day’ when all social distancing restrictions are removed. Clubs will reopen, pubs will be packed, sports…
Britain is ill-prepared to deal with rising inflation
Inflation is on the rise again. For the third consecutive month, the Consumer Prices index outpaced the forecasters’ consensus, landing at…
Why do those who abuse Priti Patel get a free pass?
Remember when Labour MP Clive Lewis got into trouble for saying, ‘On your knees, bitch’? It was at a fringe…
Has Boris Johnson forgotten what he once said about IRA terrorists?
Boris Johnson’s approach to dealing with historical prosecutions in Northern Ireland has achieved that unique political feat in the Province: uniting both…
How Macron was outfoxed by a dead Napoleonic general
Skeletons don’t always lurk in cupboards, some of them hide under dance floors waiting for a particularly rousing party to…
How did the Tories get taking the knee so wrong?
Steve Baker’s warning to his colleagues about the way they respond to footballers taking the knee has shaken like a…
New Zealand's transgender debate is turning nasty
New Zealand was the first country in the world to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. But now,…
Why Haiti's president was assassinated
There was a time when Haiti was at the centre of the New World. It was one of the richest…
