World

Joe Biden’s summer vacation

9 June 2021 8:22 am

Tomorrow, The Committee will bundle up Joe Biden, titular president of the United States, and take him for a nice…

Kamala’s bad trip

9 June 2021 6:42 am

Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on her first foreign trip since taking office this week — and quickly proved herself…

China should be worried about the Uyghur Tribunal

9 June 2021 2:48 am

There have been harrowing storiesof cruelty, torture and mistreatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province in the newsthis week, coming from…

What the England team doesn’t get about ‘taking the knee’

9 June 2021 2:48 am

England’s players being booed by their own fans is not a new phenomenon. But for the booing to be about…

Why our constituency names should celebrate Britain’s history

9 June 2021 2:46 am

The real story of the proposed boundary changes is not which MPs might end up seatless or whether the new…

Will beefy Botham hit the hacks for six?

9 June 2021 2:29 am

The end of lockdown and the dawn of summer has seen Westminster’s finest emerge once more in their best cricket…

Maya Wiley’s ‘Defund the Police’ folly

9 June 2021 12:09 am

Defund the police! The clarion cry of protesters and middle-class warriors everywhere never fails to stir Cockburn’s passions. Slashing police…

France, football and Marine Le Pen’s war on a French rapper

8 June 2021 11:20 pm

‘Dans ce rêve où ma semence de nègre fout en cloque cette chienne de Marine Le Pen.’ You don’t have…

Should we mix Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid jabs?

8 June 2021 8:35 am

Should the NHS be mixing vaccines for better effect, or at least offering people who have had one dose of…

The German takeover of the EU is accelerating

8 June 2021 6:51 am

Vetoes should no longer be allowed. Smaller countries should not be able to block the will of the ‘majority’. And…

DeSantis pads his résumé with anti-CCP bills

8 June 2021 4:45 am

Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed two more pieces of major legislation on Monday, this time targeting Chinese Communist party influence…

Political asylum? There’s an app for that

8 June 2021 3:45 am

Apps are the 21st century’s answer to everything, it seems to Cockburn. Faced with a problem, sooner or later some…

Matt Walsh, AOC and the limits of ‘own-the-libs conservatism’

7 June 2021 9:02 pm

On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued an anguished tweet about the living conditions of her grandmother in Puerto Rico, whose…

Lab leaks and the return of X-Files politics

7 June 2021 2:31 am

It began last month when the Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology had…

The problem with the New York Times’ Gaza coverage

6 June 2021 6:00 pm

While war raged between Israel and Gaza, the New York Times published a powerful montage of 64 minors said to…

How a Polish coal mine risks derailing the EU's climate strategy

6 June 2021 4:59 pm

Cracks are appearing in the EU’s climate strategy. An international dispute over the court-ordered closure of a coal mine on…

Why the far-right flourishes in East Germany

6 June 2021 4:01 pm

A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the AfD. Having come to prominence on a wave of anti-migrant…

Does Google really understand racism?

6 June 2021 9:45 am

Opponents of the new racial extremism typically object that it vilifies white people in much the same way that classical…

The hidden costs of the G7 tax deal

6 June 2021 9:30 am

Calls to reform corporation tax are nothing new and don’t just come from the left. The inefficient and bureaucratic nature…

Let the president play on the beach or the golf course

5 June 2021 10:55 pm

Every president is criticized, sooner or later, for taking too many days off, for lounging around when we’ve hired him…

Labour is in last chance saloon

5 June 2021 5:30 pm

If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…

Why is Macron feigning outrage at the Danish spying scandal?

5 June 2021 4:00 pm

The feigned outrage in Berlin – but mostly in Paris – at the USA’s proxy use of Denmark’s intelligence services…

The UN’s anti-racism mission excludes Jews

5 June 2021 10:54 am

António Guterres, the UN’s secretary-general, has described rising anti-Semitism as a ‘multi-headed monster’ of intolerance that’s creating a ‘tsunami of…

The flailing Fauci fandom

5 June 2021 10:45 am

Dr Anthony Fauci has exhibited plenty of behavioral red flags over the past year. Don’t believe me? Google ‘Fauci magazine…

Stonewall’s dystopian attacks on gendered language

5 June 2021 10:35 am

Today brings yet more proof that Liz Truss is dead right to want to withdraw government departments from Stonewall’s Diversity…