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Can any country dodge the Covid bullet?
The government is yet again under fire for its handling of Covid-19, as cases rise across parts of the country.…
Germany is in the grip of a Covid crisis
Germany’s ‘lockdown light’ strategy has failed: the country, which has been widely-praised for its response to the pandemic, recorded a daily…
Will Macron start an EU Covid chain reaction?
The Elysée palace has just confirmed that French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for Covid-19, after developing symptoms this…
Tulsi Gabbard’s last stand
Tulsi Gabbard will retire from Congress at the end of the year. The Hawaii representative is going out with a…
Boris Johnson’s Christmas Covid gamble
Boris Johnson is taking a gamble with his decision to stick with the easing of Covid restrictions for Christmas. The…
The Democrats don’t care what you think about their scandals
I’ve watched with a mixture of amusement and surprise over the last few days as my right-wing friends have descended…
Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy
While final negotiations on the UK’s relationship with the EU continue to drag, No. 10 is moving rapidly to expand…
Europe’s slow vaccine approval is testing Germany’s patience
The Bundestag can’t be an easy place to be a politician right now. At the start of the pandemic, Germany…
Why is the National Trust so determined to lecture its members?
Can the National Trust dumb down any further? Its latest crazed venture, the Colonial Countryside project, is ‘a child-led history…
Is Boris Johnson braced for a Brexit deal?
Prime Minister’s Questions may have proved a rather dreary affair this week but there was one reply that has become a source…
Farewell, Donald
Madeleine Kearns To Trump or not to Trump? Whether ’tis nobler on the page to be a morbid cynic or a self-righteous…
Four-nations Christmas Covid truce hangs in balance
It’s become a regular refrain to hear that Brexit talks have been extended. Now the same applies to negotiations over…
Am I a cuck?
‘You’re a cuck, Tobes, an absolute cuck.’ My friend James Delingpole was furious. ‘Honestly, I thought I could depend on…
Boris Johnson has allowed himself to be snookered by the EU
The UK-EU trade negotiations have heated up again, albeit from a very cold state. Boris seems to have conceded ground…
Closing time at the Barr
William P. Barr is out. Joe Biden is in. And Donald Trump has a few more weeks left to bemoan…
Trump was right about the vaccine release
Donald Trump said during the second and final presidential debate on October 22 that he was optimistic a vaccine would…
Should we worry about the new variant of Covid-19?
Should we worry about the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19? News of the…
Emmanuel Macron’s great Brexit gamble
There is an intriguing pattern in our relationship with European integration. A Frenchman vetoed our attempt to join. A Frenchman…
Can the GOP win by losing Georgia?
Not long ago I attended a gathering of young White House and congressional Republican staffers. Conversation turned, as you might…
More Brexit talks are the worst possible outcome for the economy
Currency speculators at some of the hedge funds in Mayfair may be feeling quietly pleased.Trade experts will be relieved that…
No deal won't 'get Brexit done'
Brexit talks between the two sides are deadlocked. Boris Johnson’s latest bid to ‘divide and conquer’ – pledging to visit Paris…
Why I won't mourn the death of the cinema
You could smell the stale popcorn and rancid carpet from the other end of the high street but that unmistakable…
Is America still a democratic republic?
‘Disappointed but not surprised.’ I suppose that describes my initial feeling about the summary dismissal by the Supreme Court last…
US Supreme Court ends Trump's last hope
This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
