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What will Cummings say?
As the government puts the final touches to its social distancing review and Foreign Office ministers ponder the best response…
BBC journalist: 'Hitler was right'
It has not been a happy week for the BBC. The corporation has spent the last four days grappling with…
How the BBC can save itself
All those esteemed generals of hindsight screeching ‘more governance’ as the cure to BBC’s cover-up of the Martin Bashir’s dishonesty…
Is it time to phase out the AstraZeneca vaccine?
We still await good data on the transmissibility of the Indian variants of Sars-CoV-2, something the government insists is vital…
Martin Bashir and the BBC’s line of duty
As fans of the BBC hit show Line of Duty know very well the ‘one rotten apple’ explanation for police…
Scotland's next constitutional fight won't be over a referendum
Get ready for a constitutional rammy during the first half of this, the sixth session of the Scottish parliament. Just…
The Capitol ‘armed insurrection’ narrative is crumbling
Will January 6 go down as another ‘day of infamy,’ an assault against America akin in its seriousness to December…
A nuclear crisis is closer than you think
It has long been widely accepted as orthodoxy that the world was saved from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile…
Pro-choice activists shouldn't celebrate Roe v Wade
A striking curiosity of American life is that the names of legal cases can insinuate themselves into everyday dialogue. None…
Hamas doesn't want a Palestinian state
Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no…
Boris’s Tory enemies don’t know how lucky they are
It is often said that most Conservative MPs have a highly ‘transactional’ relationship with Boris Johnson. The inference is that…
The disinformation war continues between Israel and Hamas
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has started, and the gates to Gaza have opened for the international press. Now…
In praise of Kate Forbes's Christian faith
Politics tends to attract people who consider themselves and their every mundane word and deed an example of great bravery.…
Kamala in charge
Who is the head of state? As president, Joe Biden has the sole and unlimited authority to determine US foreign…
How private should Prince Harry’s life be?
‘Never complain, never explain,’ the Cockburns say. Our family friend Prince Harry has a different motto: carry on moaning and show me the…
Does the border feel under control to you?
President Biden told NBC at the end of last month that the border crisis is ‘way down now; we’ve now…
The shameless Cuomo brothers
Andrew Cuomo is the most shamelessly transparent governor in America. And why shouldn’t he be? The man has never been…
The future looks bleak for Tory free-marketeers
The free-market Tory right’s victory on the Australia trade deal obscures the fact that the economic direction of the party…
The BBC’s shameful smearing of the French police
I had my first jab on Wednesday, at a vaccination centre in the south of Paris, run by the fire…
The post-Covid boom means inflation will be back
Amid the panic over the Indian variant this week it would have been easy to miss news that the Consumer…
Prince William’s extraordinary attack on the BBC
The tone of his delivery was subdued, which belied the severity with which the future king, Prince William, battered an…
The Oriel dons are right: Rhodes should not fall
Cecil Rhodes’ contemporary, Rudyard Kipling, put it best: ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing…
Prince Harry criticises his family (again)
Just days after appearing on a podcast in which he called America’s first amendment ‘bonkers‘ Prince Harry has now popped…
How Israel won the war
Golda Meir, Israel’s first female Prime Minister, once said that when forced to choose between being ‘dead and pitied’ or…
Why do parts of Britain erupt whenever Israel defends itself?
There has been a huge amount of comment in recent days on the latest round of exchanges between Israel and…
