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Zac Goldsmith, No. 10's rapid rebuttal service
It’s a tough gig defending this government. So tough in fact that the Prime Minister’s official spokesperson Allegra Stratton left…
What Arlene Foster’s ousting means for Northern Ireland – and the Union
The brutal defenestration of Arlene Foster as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party could have severe implications for an already…
Racism has become a kind of theory of everything
‘If you hate wokeness, you should vote for Joe Biden.’ So said writer and academic Yascha Mounk in the Atlantic in…
Andrew Cuomo will get away with it all
Andrew Cuomo could murder thousands of senior citizens in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose a single supporter.…
How Tory MPs plan to clip Cummings' wings
On 26 May, Dominic Cummings will give evidence to MPs grouped on the health and science super committee, chaired by…
Alexei Navalny's big gamble
Alexei Navalny seems to undergoing a metamorphosis. Yesterday, we saw him attending another trial by video, looking gaunt after 24…
Tim Scott’s rebuttal marches the GOP towards obscurity
Before the bombs and bullets of World War One reshaped life as we know it, for ‘the vast majority of…
Does ‘anti-racism’ also mean slurring black conservatives?
The latest target for online mobs is South Carolina’s Republican senator Tim Scott. His ‘crime’ is apparently being a black…
Is Nicola Sturgeon in for a scare in her own seat?
Political geeks of a certain vintage are still nostalgic for that Portillo moment when, at 3.10am on 2 May 1997,…
Vaccine passports for mass events might be the worst of all worlds
Are vaccine passports in our future? The ‘Covid-status certification’ review is underway, carved out of the Prime Minister’s roadmap and…
The media’s horrid hundred days under Biden
President Joe Biden’s first 100 days have been devastating for the media. America’s trust in the press plummeted to new…
Tony Blair states the obvious
If there is more joy in Heaven over one devolutionist who repenteth, the celestial jubilations must be in full roar…
Covid has emboldened our modern censors
The past year has accelerated all kinds of trends that were already moving through our societies. Social atomisation, the decline…
In India, the COVID crisis has left us helpless and broken
New Delhi Crematoriums are burning so many pyres that they have run out of space and wood to keep up…
Is Joe Biden trying to make America poor again?
John Maynard Keynes is alleged to have said ‘When the facts change, I change my mind — what do you…
Imran Khan’s dangerous bid to export Pakistan’s blasphemy laws
Imran Khan appears to want to impose Islamic blasphemy laws across the world. ‘I want the Muslim countries to devise…
The mendacity of Joe Biden’s address to Congress
John Maynard Keynes is alleged to have said ‘When the facts change, I change my mind — what do you…
Exclusive: Biden admin sending 500 USDA employees to assist with border crisis
The Biden administration is asking US Department of Agriculture employees to abandon their day jobs and volunteer for months-long stints…
Who would want to replace Arlene Foster?
Arlene Foster has announced that she will be standing down as DUP leader on the 28 May and First Minister…
Has Britain reached herd immunity?
When the Office for National Statistics released the last antibody survey a fortnight ago, the results were underwhelming. After watching…
A politician's guide to non-denial denials
Michael Gove was deployed to the Commons on Monday afternoon to answers questions on the ministerial code, an hour-long appearance…
Is France losing its war on terror?
A political storm has swept France in recent days. It follows the publication of an open letter by twenty retired…
How concerned should we be by the Indian variant?
In recent weeks there has been a lot of new-found optimism in Britain with regards to Covid: case numbers, hospitalisations…
Tucker Carlson…unmasked
It’s a day that ends in -y, which means there is some execrably stupid dust-up involving Tucker Carlson. Have you…
The Beijing Winter Olympics boycott is doomed
In 2022, the Winter Games will descend on Beijing, China’s polluted capital, giving everyone that weren’t we just here? feeling. The world…
