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A Huawei U-turn must now be inevitable
The declaration by US authorities that Huawei and fellow Chinese comms firm ZTE are national security threats is likely to have a clear…
The death of Hong Kong
When Hong Kong was handed over from Britain to China with great fanfare on 1 July 1997, there was a…
Brits want a tougher line on China
The scenes in Hong Kong are hugely depressing. The authorities are already using the new Beijing-imposed national security law to…
The rise of Britain’s new class system
Television chef Prue Leith believes that snobbery is still rife in Britain, and that it’s keeping working-class people in their…
Is the Lancet becoming too political?
Doctors have always been political. Medical school is often a cradle of social activism, driven by a syllabus underlining health…
Boris's 'New Deal' is nothing of the sort
The best thing I can say about Boris Johnson is that he’s not a real Tory. The Prime Minister belongs…
The Kushner conundrum
After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…
The poison of reparations
Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…
Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism
Dear fellow citizens, In the wake of the horrifying and brutal killing of George Floyd, many in the UK expressed…
Fashion designer vs former rapper: the 2020 election you need to follow
Ola Hawatmeh, the Republican nominee for New York’s 19th congressional district, doesn’t bring many surprises to the table policy-wise. She’s…
Does Boris's 'new deal' offer anything new?
Today Boris Johnson launched his ‘new deal’ for Britain – billed as an economic recovery plan to follow the Covid…
Can antivirals defeat Covid-19?
Can antivirals help us defeat coronavirus? The odds don’t look good. The use of antiviral compounds against respiratory viruses has…
Should we be afraid of this new swine flu?
Imagine if a vaccine for Covid-19 was approved tomorrow, and that within weeks we had all been vaccinated. Would life…
Could Corbynites infiltrate the Lib Dems?
It’s funny how politics works. This time last year, the talk was of whether Labour moderates should leave their party…
What happens if the Leicester lockdown fails?
The government’s decision to lock Leicester down, closing all non-essential retail from today and schools from Thursday for all but…
Is Bannon back?
Has the Trump campaign finally grown desperate enough to bring back Steve Bannon? The double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic…
Boris Johnson could quickly come unstuck
The Conservative party is no longer the party of the rich, while the Labour party is no longer the party…
How worried should we be about a second wave?
Now that we are two months past the peak of the UK coronavirus epidemic, many fear the emergence of a…
Syria's nightmare is far from over
With the world’s attention focused on the ongoing fight against coronavirus, Syria’s conflict rumbles on. Hundreds of thousands have died.…
Was Covid with us long before anyone realised?
One of the mysteries of the Covid-19 crisis is how the disease seemed to bubble up out of nowhere in…
End of empire
The end of World War Two inaugurated the era of American dominion, with the United States politically, economically and militarily…
Isn’t it time Sacha Baron Cohen got cancelled?
How helpful of the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to reveal that there are two or three people in America who…
Is this the end of history?
Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters: ‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill…
It’s not about Woodrow Wilson. It’s about indoctrination
On November 18, 2015, a group of Princeton University undergraduates calling themselves the Black Justice League, or BJL, invaded historic…
Even Japan could be about to embrace remote working
A Japanese banker once told me that his company had opened an expensive showcase office block in the centre of…
