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Is dexamethasone a major Covid breakthrough?
Just how a big a deal is today’s announcement that the steroid anti-inflammatory drug Dexamethasone has been shown to be…
Have the protests proved that Covid-19 risks are being vastly exaggerated?
By now, we ought to be seeing some evidence of increasing Covid-19 cases from the mass protests. The fact we are…
What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it
How do you navigate conversations with people when the default assumption is that you’re a racist? What do you do…
The Biden factor is difficult to calculate
The final stage of the election campaign and its result will depend on four factors: management of the balance between…
Defend the police
President Trump is signing an executive order today on police reform. The order, while relatively toothless, does one important thing:…
Why banking on judges is a poor strategy
Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County was massively significant for two reasons. As a legal matter, the…
How much does Trump’s rift with military brass matter?
Donald Trump needs to ramp it up. After he almost bobbled a glass of water and carefully descended a ramp…
Germany is picking up the tab for Brexit
The car workers would pay a heavy price. The City would be muscled out of crucial markets. The Treasury would…
The Red Wall overwhelmingly opposes a no-deal Brexit
It isn’t news to say the Johnson administration doesn’t understand how to fight Covid-19 or reopen schools or save the…
Can Keir Starmer turn Labour into a credible party?
By most measures Keir Starmer has, politically speaking, won the war when it comes to Covid. Since becoming Labour leader…
Coronavirus has spoiled Vladimir Putin’s coronation party
Vladimir Putin’s traditional ways of dealing with crises don’t work with Covid-19. Unlike previous opponents he has faced, the coronavirus…
COVID and the left: you can’t rally, but we can riot
Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19…
Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or…
Boris’s gender change shake-up leaves Labour with a difficult choice
The Sunday Times says Boris Johnson is going to reject May-era proposals to allow people to “self-identify” changes of their…
11 people who should have statues
The Black Lives Matter movement and the ‘Topple the Racists’ campaign have reminded us that monuments in public spaces can…
A rabbi stabbed, but no hate crime?
A mystery has occurred. In The Affluent People’s Republic of North London, a rabbi was stabbed on the street multiple…
Neocons come home to roost
Dolphins returned to the canals of Venice during the COVID-19 lockdown, and neoconservatives are returning to the Democratic party. Bill…
How do you like US now?
It’s that time again when newspapers tell us that America’s standing in the world has substantially declined under Donald Trump.…
How a serious issue with racism was reduced to a tick-boxing exercise
Who needs statue topplers when the state will do it for you? Some bright spark in authority has decided the…
What Britain should learn from Belgium: history can be reappraised
Is it best to erase history, or reappraise history? We haven’t started taking down statues of royalty in Britain yet,…
Conservatives – corporations are not your friend
Amazon is suspending police use of its face-recognition software, HBO Max has pulled Gone With the Wind and Paramount Network…
The European Union may never have its ‘Hamilton moment’
The European Union has always been quintessentially risk averse. What a surprise therefore to see it jeopardising its very existence…
Slayed queens: the girlboss, dethroned
The girlboss is dead. Intersectionality killed her. Female CEOs who sacrificed their twenties to build their women-focused businesses are being…
Is change on the horizon in Baltimore?
Crime-ridden Baltimore finally dodged a bullet this week. The bullet, in this case, was former mayor Sheila Dixon, who nearly…
What the cancelling of JK Rowling is really about
Shall we start with an easy question? As a general rule, would it be appropriate for a 15-year-old boy to…
