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Does anyone doubt Boris's leaked 'bodies' comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Joe Biden is letting India down
With 40 percent of the population vaccinated, a palpable sense of normalcy has returned to America. The young are now…
How China is stoking America’s racial tensions
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
Why I’m all in for Caitlyn for Governor
Gird your loins and grab your betting guides: there is to be a California recall election! Angry Golden Staters have…
Bioreactors and the art of manufacturing a Covid vaccine
When Covid struck and the quest for a vaccine began, the team at Oxford had a head start in that…
What Europe can learn from Greece's alliance with Israel
In the 21st chapter of his magisterial 1948 history of the Second World War, Winston Churchill began with an arresting…
The banalisation of Islamist terror bodes badly for the West
Another day, another Islamist murder in France – this time, a 49-year-old policewoman fatally stabbed in the neck by a…
It’s time to scrap the Best Actress Oscar award
If you tune in to the Oscars during the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll note – along with sickly…
The vaccines worked. We can safely lift lockdown
We are writing as scientists and scholars concerned about the confused and contradictory directions currently being promoted in the management…
Why do we envy nomads but treat Travellers so badly?
Oh for the open road! Who doesn’t want to abandon the suffocating suburbs – waking to an alarm at the…
Britain is not America
‘If people in Wales had access to as much media coverage of decisions that affected Wales as they do of…
Beijing's agents tried to recruit me on LinkedIn
‘We are an international headhunter company, your profile attracted me,’ began the remarkable message I received on LinkedIn. My newfound interlocutor,…
Will the Vanuatu tribes now worship Prince Charles?
In the days after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, there was much eagerness to hear from a particular group of royal…
'Collective' shines a light on Romania's deadly corruption problem
A gripping Romanian documentary has made history as the country’s first film ever to be nominated for an Oscar in…
Boris's vaccine propaganda film jumps the gun
Westminster’s much anticipated summer blockbuster dropped last night: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’ was released on 10…
Olympics' organisers could regret banning 'taking the knee'
Knee-taking and fist-raising protests have been banned at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee warning athletes who flout the rules…
The strange tale of NEOM: Saudi Arabia’s struggling desert megacity
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is desperate to shake Saudi Arabia’s addiction to oil. Its price has still not recovered from…
In praise of the LGB Alliance
Once upon a time an organisation was established to campaign for gay and lesbian rights. They faced opposition from the…
George Floyd was a victim of American gun culture
The triple guilty verdict on Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was greeted with general relief across the…
Failure falls upward for John Kerry
Former defense secretary Robert Gates once wrote that President Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and…
Cummings' attack spells big trouble for Boris
When Number 10 briefed newspapers on Thursday that Dominic Cummings was the source of leaks of the Prime Minister’s text…
Putin steps back from the Ukrainian brink
After weeks building up forces in Crimea and close to the Ukrainian border — over 100,000, all told — Moscow…
Merkel's vaccine nationalism threatens India
You might have thought that Europe’s leaders would be wary of handing Brussels greater powers, given the various mishaps of the…
London's mayoral election is an embarrassment
Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…
Number 10 should fear a Welsh nationalist coalition
As Disraeli’s famous maxim goes: England does not love coalitions. In Wales, by contrast, we can’t get enough of them.…
