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Macron's fight with the far-left over extremism

7 October 2020 10:05 pm

Emmanuel Macron’s bold declaration last Friday that the Republic will eradicate Islamic extremism appeared to draw a swift response in…

Ministers close to closing northern pubs and restaurants

7 October 2020 9:43 pm

We are at a critical moment in the second surge of coronavirus. Ministers, scientists and officials are deeply concerned about…

The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose

7 October 2020 5:00 pm

Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…

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House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report

7 October 2020 8:50 am

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are releasing their own report on Big Tech on Tuesday, countering a Democratic report…

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It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump

7 October 2020 8:09 am

Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…

What does Boris Johnson's Tory party stand for?

7 October 2020 1:34 am

The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…

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The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment

6 October 2020 11:34 pm

What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…

The sinister Vatican plot against Cardinal Pell

6 October 2020 6:19 pm

Cardinal George Pell isn’t the sort of man to say ‘so there is a God after all!’ – but plenty…

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The hypocritical oath

6 October 2020 9:28 am

‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…

The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists

6 October 2020 1:53 am

For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…

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Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics

6 October 2020 12:17 am

The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…

Sunak warns of hardship

6 October 2020 12:05 am

When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…

Why won't the UK vaccinate the whole population?

5 October 2020 10:58 pm

In British COVID vaccine taskforce head Kate Bingham’s interview with the Financial Times, where she says that vaccinating the whole…

Are all political parties destined to fail?

5 October 2020 9:24 pm

We seem to be entering another era of political party expansion. There’s Laurence Fox’s new party, not to mention the…

Biden can smell victory in his battle against Trump

5 October 2020 3:45 am

‘How is the president feeling?’ shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. And yet over the last 24 hours, nobody…

Why are journalists making Trump's illness all about themselves?

4 October 2020 10:04 pm

What’s the most important part of this developing Trump-has-Covid story? Is it ‘how sick is the President?’ Or is it…

Boris Johnson warns of turbulence ahead

4 October 2020 9:22 pm

As Conservative party conference gets underway online, Boris Johnson used an appearance on the Andrew Marr show to warn of the…

Following the evidence for hospital admissions

4 October 2020 5:23 pm

The recent warnings of exponential growth of Covid-19 cases, inevitably followed by a rise in hospital admissions, is one focus…

Nigel Farage is watching and waiting for the next Tory slip-up

4 October 2020 5:00 pm

A few weeks ago, Nigel Farage enjoyed a get together with a very senior Conservative party figure. Brexit was, naturally,…

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The New York Times has no editorial policy

4 October 2020 6:52 am

The New York Times put many lives in danger in June when it published an op-ed from Republican senator Tom…

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‘The Melania Tapes’ reveal she’s even cooler than we thought

4 October 2020 12:17 am

Just a couple of hours before President Trump announced that he and his wife, first lady Melania, had tested positive…

Why the EU can't sue the UK

3 October 2020 6:16 pm

Michel Barnier has very politely confirmed that the EU will be suing the UK in a respectful manner. That has…

America has a long tradition of voter fraud

3 October 2020 5:53 pm

Donald Trump was making modern political history even before he fell ill in the final stretch of his election campaign.…

Covid-19 is Trump's hardest fight yet

3 October 2020 4:47 pm

Donald Trump has confronted a long list of adversaries and weathered an even longer list of scandals in his nearly…

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Trump’s enemies badly want him to survive coronavirus

3 October 2020 8:45 am

President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely…