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Rudy Giuliani’s twin bombshells
In the last 24 hours Rudy Giuliani, 76 (and a man), managed to give birth to twins. Two healthy, weighty,…
Chris Pratt is a role model for other celebrities
Two weeks from The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes and nearly four years into the Trump Era, you could…
Unanswered questions for Big Tech
It’s been a full week since the New York Post published their first story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which is…
The Burnham that could have been
Watching anorak-clad Andy Burnham go toe-to-toe with Boris Johnson might leave Westminster-watchers of a certain vintage a bit bemused. How…
Pompeo: no reason to believe Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation
Mike Pompeo has ‘every reason to believe’ director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe’s assessment that the recent story about Hunter…
Devolutionary theory: How Westminster is killing the Union
Robert Conquest’s third law (which may not have been his third law) says that the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is…
The cruelty of the care home visit ban
The loneliest pandemic deaths are in ‘care’ homes. Old people with dementia and people of all ages with severe mental…
Jeffrey Toobin’s stroke of misfortune
Jeffrey Toobin is a man much wronged. On Monday, the New Yorker writer was suspended by the magazine for which…
A very San Franciscan president
The most under-appreciated fact of the 2020 presidential campaign is that Kamala Harris, the woman likely to soon replace the…
Get ready for Russiagate 2.0 if Trump wins
If Trump is reelected, prepare for Russiagate 2.0. This time it’ll be even crazier. The Hunter Biden story has given…
The growing evidence on lockdown deaths
That the lockdown had a terrible impact on the nation’s health — in ways other than just Covid-19 — is…
The Hunter Biden story isn’t going away
It’s the election equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting ‘LA-LA-LA-LA’. Joe Biden keeps ignoring questions about…
Why Boris should reject this Brexit deal
Boris Johnson says the EU has refused to negotiate seriously with the UK for the last few months, and time…
Where have all the male teachers gone?
Should it matter whether a teacher is male or female? Research out on Monday from the Education Policy Institute shows…
Will we ever know the truth about Russiagate?
Writing in mid-October, anno domini 2020, it is sobering to speculate that when the results of a certain upcoming political…
Why fracking matters
Sigmund Freud famously noted that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In the case of fracking, even Freud would…
The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
It has become a received wisdom in recent months that the US has failed where the EU had succeeded. On…
Number 10: EU must go further to restart Brexit talks
The government’s negotiations with the EU appear to be going a little better than their talks with Greater Manchester mayor…
Iran's embargo imbroglio
If 2020 is generally accepted to be a global annus horribilis, then it is perhaps fitting that the Islamic Republic…
Russia's conundrum in the Caucasus
For the second time since fighting began on 27 September, a humanitarian ceasefire was agreed between the warring countries of…
The empty rhetoric of ‘je suis Samuel’
The mother of my daughter didn’t attend yesterday’s rally in Paris to honour the memory of Samuel Paty, the teacher…
The Trumpian mirror
Trump hatred has been with us since he announced his candidacy five years ago. But we can all feel the…
The paranoid style in left-wing politics
Did Donald Trump fake his battle with coronavirus to boost his standing in the polls? No, obviously not. He spent…
Don Jr, the Secret Service and me
They say the past is a foreign country where things are done differently. But if I had any choice in…
Even Trump’s friends are turning against him
If there is one word that best describes Senate Republicans in the age of Donald Trump, it’s “docile.” With the…
