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America needs more than ‘guardrails’ with China
As recently as a week ago, there was talk that Monday night’s virtual summit between President Joe Biden and Chinese…
How Kyrsten Sinema brought Gen X to the Senate
Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t care. She doesn’t care about your tweets. She doesn’t care about the constant vitriol from Jacobin-lite bloggers.…
What's the truth about Kyle Rittenhouse?
On the night of 25 August 2020, Richie McGinniss, a somewhat gonzo video journalist interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse, for the right-wing Daily Caller website. Rittenhouse wore his…
Is Russia preparing to invade Ukraine?
I can still hear the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Just a mile or so from us, thousands of Russian troops…
Why COP26 flopped
King coal is dead, long live king coal! That might be a fitting epitaph for COP26, which mercifully ended last…
Could the rise of Sinn Fein lead to a united Ireland?
The possibility of a political wing of a terrorist organisation becoming a party of government in an EU member state would…
Is Boris Johnson’s sleaze nightmare over?
Two weeks into this self-inflicted Tory sleaze scandal, Boris Johnson has set out plans to bar MPs from political consultancy…
Tulip Siddiq's selective attacks on foreign leaders
Tulip Siddiq has campaigned nobly for the return of her constituent, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The Labour MP is again doing her…
Blue on Blue: May savages Boris
The faults in the Tory party were on show for all to see today, as MPs were forced to debate…
Truss fails her first big test
Can anything stop the irresistible rise of Liz Truss? The power-dressing insta lover reinvented herself at International Trade, becoming the…
Kamala Harris, unprotected
Are you a sexist and a racist? For her supporters, that’s the only possible explanation for why Vice President Kamala…
Rittenhouse prosecution shoots from the hip
There are three basic rules of gun safety: always keep your firearm pointed in a safe direction, always keep it…
Joe Biden’s sacrificial presidency
The worst kept secret in Washington, DC is that Joe Biden is a one-term president — whether he knows it…
Prince Harry declares war on disinformation
Democracy is in crisis, faith in institutions is at an all-time low. The public’s trust in our leaders has collapsed;…
Why aren't we more horrified by the Liverpool bombing?
Back when the West was still pretending to fight the ‘war on terror’, Martin Amis made an observation about the…
Women don't 'consent' to their own deaths
A ruling by the Court of Appeal last week has further enshrined the notion that women can consent to their…
Macron and Barnier chase the nationalist vote
For centrists of a certain age, few names are more likely to tug the heartstrings than Emmanuel Macron and Michel…
Shell's Dutch departure is a vote of confidence in Brexit Britain
The City was meant to be hollowed out. Shortages would cripple the economy. And major multinationals would move their headquarters,…
Should Covid booster jabs be rolled out to the over-40s?
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended that Covid booster jabs be offered to people in their forties,…
The sleaze row isn't finished yet
Number 10 will have been relieved that the weekend did not bring new stories about Conservative MPs raking in lots…
Rest in peace, Wilbur Smith
A sparrow falls. The death of Wilbur Smith at the weekend deprives the world of one of the great luminaries…
Is the Trump/Russia collusion hoax about to be exposed?
Ultimately, I suspect, John Durham will break your heart. At least, he will if you think, as I once hoped,…
Steve Bannon’s indictment tightens the noose
Congressman Adam Schiff is crowing. “It’s very positive,” he said on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press about the indictment of…
Putin's plan for Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s message was as clear — and familiar — as his method. The Kremlin has begun another major build-up of troops…
Boris COPs up his host city
And so COP26 ended, not so much with a bang, but rather a whimper. Alok Sharma’s tears aside, there was…
