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The Met Office’s confused climate change forecasts
Oh, do make your mind up. Is snow in Britain going to be eradicated for good due to climate change…
The COVID response shows the left is losing its way
Last month, British Columbia announced that those who don’t wear masks indoors can now be fined $230. ‘To me, it’s…
Inside the no-deal reasonable worst case scenario
I’ve been passed the government’s ‘reasonable worst case scenario planning assumptions to support civil contingencies planning for the end of…
Meet the pollster who doesn’t suck at his job
The winner of this year’s presidential election may be different than the last, but the struggles of the polling industry…
Johnson's 'last throw of the dice' in Brexit talks
The UK’s chief negotiator David Frost has arrived in Brussels for last-minute talks with the EU’s Michel Barnier. After a phone…
A Grantham statue is the least Margaret Thatcher deserves
Grantham in Lincolnshire has an interesting history. Newton went to school there. Turner produced several paintings of local scenes. During…
The Grenfell Tower inquiry is uncovering a major corporate scandal
A picture of an enormous corporate scandal has emerged at the Grenfell Tower inquiry to little fanfare over the last…
Brexit talks resume despite 'critical issues'
Brexit talks are back on between the UK and EU after a brief break. After both sides paused talks due…
Covid’s endgame
The Pfizer vaccine’s approval by UK regulators marked what many hope is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus…
Why lockdown scepticism is growing in Japan
‘We all know it’s bull and we’ve had enough.’ This is not the kind of language I have come to…
What does the different Covid data tell us?
In spite of the approval of one vaccine and the likely approval of at least two others, the government seems…
Brexit negotiations paused ahead of crunch talks
Those hoping for white smoke in the Brexit negotiations tonight will be left disappointed. After a week of intense negotiations,…
A Sudan-Israel peace deal could be Trump's crowning achievement
Twitter is not always kind to the Jewish state. But the peace accord between Israel, UAE and Bahrain that was…
France would be foolish to veto a Brexit deal
Britain and France are heading for an almighty bust-up over Brexit. This morning the French junior minister for European affairs,…
Nike Japan’s lecturing was bound to backfire
David Ogilvy once said that ‘a good advertisement is one that sells the product without drawing attention to itself’. If…
Brexit talks go down to the wire
After the past few years, it is hard to take Brexit deadlines seriously; they have a tendency to always slide…
Russians are wary of Putin's vaccine
Never one to let a bandwagon pass by, Vladimir Putin launched his own national vaccine programme the moment Britain said…
Boris will be worried by the growing Tory rebellions
The beginning of the end for Theresa May was when she tried to see if she could pass her Brexit…
Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
Like many other Americans who had the misfortune to live under socialism, I’ve been having lots of flashbacks lately. In…
Joe Biden isn't the president the EU thinks he is
For four years, president Donald Trump radicalised international relations. There was a shift towards the nation state and unilateralism, beginning with the…
They think they’re better than you
Nancy Pelosi’s salon visit. Bill de Blasio’s gym session. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry soirée. Cockburn can’t even keep up with…
Boris hasn't seen the last of the Tory lockdown rebels
Boris Johnson is wrong if he thinks this week’s Tory rebellion on the tiered system marks the end of his…
Boris’s clash over masks
‘Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme,’ the free market economist Milton Friedman famously noted. So just how…
Twitter is in China’s pocket
Twitter has been quick on the draw when responding to tweets by President Trump in the last month, as he…
Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?
Today the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to clinically authorise a vaccine protecting against Covid-19, after…
