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Berlin has been bounced into accepting Sputnik

9 April 2021 12:04 am

Munich has had enough of the vaccine chaos in Berlin and Brussels. In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Bavaria’s minister…

Russia's Sputnik vaccine is causing political chaos in Central Europe

8 April 2021 11:35 pm

A joke is doing the rounds in the Czech Republic that the world’s highest Covid mortality rate can, in actual…

Imran Khan’s cowardly response to Pakistan's rape crisis

8 April 2021 9:28 pm

Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan has once again blamed women for an appalling rise in rape cases. Khan used a televised question…

How should we honour the 'angels' of the Holocaust when they're gone?

8 April 2021 3:30 pm

Yom HaShoa is Israel and the Jewish people’s day of remembrance for the Shoa, or Holocaust. It falls this year…

The future of the Euro is uncertain

8 April 2021 3:00 pm

A decade ago, Europe clambered out of the 2008/09 financial crisis only to fall into the sovereign debt crisis of…

Asa Hutchinson commits cable news seppuku

8 April 2021 8:50 am

Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson came under fire early this week for vetoing a bill that would prohibit doctors from providing…

The squeeze on tax havens is only just beginning

8 April 2021 2:10 am

The message from the budget last month was clear – at some point in the future the Chancellor is going…

Major League Baseball has made a major mistake

7 April 2021 10:18 pm

When Major League Baseball announced the removal of their All-Star Game from Atlanta, their statement directly referenced President Biden’s own…

Salmond could spark a nationalist war over Europe

7 April 2021 4:00 pm

There was a Scooby Doo moment in Alex Salmond’s campaign launch on Tuesday. Something that made me think: ‘Ruh-roh’. The…

The creeping authoritarianism of the Covid-19 restrictions

7 April 2021 4:00 pm

How can a country abide a government that consistently says one thing and then does the exact opposite? Whether it’s…

Now isn't the time to 'decolonise' the curriculum

7 April 2021 3:55 pm

Who will educate the educators, when the educators get things wrong? This week, one of Britain’s leading teaching unions passed a…

Starmer will regret his submission to liberal intolerance

7 April 2021 3:15 am

Keir Starmer obviously regrets visiting Jesus House last week because of the furore it has caused in his own party.…

Alex Salmond is a gift to the Unionist cause

7 April 2021 2:50 am

If Alex Salmond and his new Alba party did not exist, pro-Union parties would find it necessary to invent them.…

The tragic demise of the National Trust

7 April 2021 1:55 am

And so the National Trust’s crazed attack on its own properties goes blazing on. Their latest self-hating wheeze is to…

When 'white privilege' doesn't count

6 April 2021 6:37 pm

First off the blocks criticising Dr Tony Sewell’s report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was Professor Kalwant…

How Alex Salmond can game the loophole in Scotland's voting system

6 April 2021 5:56 pm

Two decades after devolution, the Scottish Parliament’s election system still confuses ordinary voters and seasoned political observers alike. Politicians on…

Johnson is in trouble over vaccine passports – and it's showing

6 April 2021 4:20 am

The biggest question facing Boris Johnson at this evening’s press conference was so-called vaccine passports. Plans for his scheme were…

Johnson takes the next step out of lockdown

6 April 2021 3:05 am

When Boris Johnson first unveiled his roadmap out of lockdown, there was a promise of an end to restrictions by 21…

Go with the flow: how helpful is mass testing?

6 April 2021 2:40 am

Over half the adult population has been vaccinated, new infections and deaths have plummeted to their lowest level since last…

Matt Gaetz

Matt Gaetz and the death of the Republican sex scandal

6 April 2021 1:04 am

Some hot water this week for Rep. Matt Gaetz. The Sunshine State Republican and adroit controversialist stands accused of everything…

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YouTube pulls Spectator editor interview with Trump lawyer John Eastman

5 April 2021 11:54 pm

Over three-quarters of Republicans believe that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election and about a third of…

Has Starmer already missed his chance?

5 April 2021 10:00 pm

Hindsight is the easiest weapon to employ in politics — as Keir Starmer of all people should know. When you…

Faux fury against the race report is unsurprising

5 April 2021 4:01 pm

Back in the 1960s, my brother, Asim, and I were smitten by the magical Manchester United trio of Law, Best…

Why teaching the Holocaust still matters

5 April 2021 4:00 pm

Pretzsch is a normal small town on the River Elbe, 35 miles north east of Leipzig, with little or nothing…

What should go in the Brexit museum

5 April 2021 3:01 pm

Have you ever wondered what happened to Boris Johnson’s Brexit bus? One might think such a large, controversial item would…