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France is divided on 'taking the knee'
Until this month ‘taking a knee’ has not been a French phenomenon. When the Black Lives Matter movement spilled out of…
Keir Starmer is alienating both sides in the Brexit debate
What is it with Labour and Brexit? An issue that during Theresa May’s premiership looked like it could rip the…
Is furlough holding back the jobs market?
The latest employment figures, published this morning, confirm a remarkable aspect of the Covid pandemic: that it appears to have…
Montenegro's motorway to nowhere
Arching out across a quiet Balkan valley, Montenegro’s first motorway cuts across the rocky scrubland with unnatural precision: a modernist…
No, Jon Stewart’s Wuhan lab tirade is not ‘fringe’ opinion
Cockburn is old enough to remember when famous comedians sought to be transgressive. He recalls when they were funny, too.…
Greenslade pours oil on Troubles waters
After resigning as a visiting professor at City University in March after admitting to supporting IRA terrorists in the 1970s, Roy Greenslade has…
The cost of delaying 'freedom day'
When Boris Johnson announced that unlocking would be guided by ‘data not dates’ he handed detractors ample scope for derision…
The president of platitudes
President Joe Biden turned up almost three hours late to his Nato press conference tonight. He offered no apology, because,…
Boris Johnson delays the end of lockdown
Boris Johnson has this evening confirmed that he will delay the lifting of all Covid restrictions by four weeks to…
Can Naftali Bennett’s anti-Bibi coalition survive?
Sunday saw a watershed moment in Israeli politics: Bibi Netanyahu was removed from power after 12 years, and his government…
Speaker blasts Boris again over lockdown announcement
The government has just suffered a further verbal drubbing for the way it announced it would be delaying the roadmap…
‘Insisting’ and ‘demanding’ will get us nowhere with China
How can America hold China to account? Its ruling party has committed human rights abuses and bears responsibility for the…
Twerking, Chicago and the decline of police power
A cellphone video surfaced in Chicago last week showing three African American women twerking on top of a slowly moving…
The lockdown delay has triggered a constitutional crisis
It is not the Battle of Marston Moor, but it strikes me that we are now in something of a…
What Tory MPs fear most about a lockdown delay
As Boris Johnson prepares to announce a four-week delay to the final stage out of lockdown, he faces a mixed reaction.…
Can Mike Pence win in 2024?
The vice presidency, as even the most remedial student of American politics will tell you, is not the most exciting…
Andrew Neil's opening GB News manifesto
At long last GB News is here. After months of speculation and excitement, the first national TV channel to launch…
Boris Johnson's Northern Ireland problem
In an at times grouchy press conference, Boris Johnson tried to calm the row over the Northern Ireland protocol. The…
Why is the government so reluctant to give freedom back to citizens?
One year on, we are no further forward. We have a devastated industry, jobs lost and global Britain shut for…
Boris Johnson's refusal to talk about faith
I am struggling to make sense of the Prime Minister’s answer to my question: whether he is a practising Roman…
Prince William won't save the Union
Can the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge save the Union? Officials at Buckingham Palace are reported to be drawing up…
The increasing cruelty of the North Korean regime
On a humid summer’s day in Singapore three years ago today, Donald Trump became the first incumbent US president to…
The manhunt dividing Belgium
Belgium’s leading virologist is in hiding, holed up with his family in a government safe house. The reason? A right-wing…
When feminists fight back
We have been told that our mere presence as academics makes students feel unsafe. We have been threatened with violence,…
How Starmer can beat Boris
How should Keir Starmer deal with a problem like Boris Johnson? Despite the Prime Minister’s mistakes in the handling of…
