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How to hold a credible referendum on Scottish independence
Whatever happens in the Scottish Parliament elections on May 6, Westminster should apply new thinking to all future referendums in…
Are plans to abandon the office premature?
To what extent will our pandemic lifestyles stick? With ‘work from home’ guidance in place for the best part of…
Why isn't the West standing up for the Czech Republic?
The discovery by Czech intelligence services that a bombing of an ammunitions and weapons depot in 2014 that killed two…
Grand Old Problem
The Republican party is in ‘the wilderness’, as insufferable political analysts describe the wholly normal phenomenon of a party being…
No wonder viewers are boycotting the Oscars
The Oscars are in trouble. People are switching off in their millions. A paltry 9.85m Americans tuned in to the…
Can Labour make the Tory sleaze allegations stick?
One of the reasons the row isn’t fading about Tory sleaze allegations and the Prime Minister’s conduct is that there…
Afghanistan — the long defeat
In announcing his decision to withdraw all remaining US troops from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared that ‘it’s time to…
Why the Cummings row won't harm Boris
It’s hard not to agree with those who believe that Boris Johnson, forced into the second Covid-19 lockdown, did say the…
Joe Biden's skewed climate change priorities
It’s not hard to see why politicians like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson want to talk about climate change. First…
How terror took over the African continent
Eight law enforcement officials, including three policemen and five members of a local anti-jihadist force, were killed in a jihadist…
Does anyone doubt Boris's leaked 'bodies' comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Joe Biden is letting India down
With 40 percent of the population vaccinated, a palpable sense of normalcy has returned to America. The young are now…
How China is stoking America’s racial tensions
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
Why I’m all in for Caitlyn for Governor
Gird your loins and grab your betting guides: there is to be a California recall election! Angry Golden Staters have…
Bioreactors and the art of manufacturing a Covid vaccine
When Covid struck and the quest for a vaccine began, the team at Oxford had a head start in that…
What Europe can learn from Greece's alliance with Israel
In the 21st chapter of his magisterial 1948 history of the Second World War, Winston Churchill began with an arresting…
The banalisation of Islamist terror bodes badly for the West
Another day, another Islamist murder in France – this time, a 49-year-old policewoman fatally stabbed in the neck by a…
It’s time to scrap the Best Actress Oscar award
If you tune in to the Oscars during the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll note – along with sickly…
The vaccines worked. We can safely lift lockdown
We are writing as scientists and scholars concerned about the confused and contradictory directions currently being promoted in the management…
Why do we envy nomads but treat Travellers so badly?
Oh for the open road! Who doesn’t want to abandon the suffocating suburbs – waking to an alarm at the…
Britain is not America
‘If people in Wales had access to as much media coverage of decisions that affected Wales as they do of…
Beijing's agents tried to recruit me on LinkedIn
‘We are an international headhunter company, your profile attracted me,’ began the remarkable message I received on LinkedIn. My newfound interlocutor,…
Will the Vanuatu tribes now worship Prince Charles?
In the days after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, there was much eagerness to hear from a particular group of royal…
'Collective' shines a light on Romania's deadly corruption problem
A gripping Romanian documentary has made history as the country’s first film ever to be nominated for an Oscar in…
Boris's vaccine propaganda film jumps the gun
Westminster’s much anticipated summer blockbuster dropped last night: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’ was released on 10…
