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Donald Trump: defender of liberalism
Some things are right even if Donald Trump believes them. The President’s Constitution Day speech was a doughty defence of…
Our testing regime is dangerously flawed – here's how to fix it
Matt Hancock has announced a £100 billion spending programme for mass population testing — his so-called ‘moonshot’ initiative, that would…
Faith in the government is wearing thin
As the government tightens coronavirus restrictions across swathes of the north east, Boris Johnson is facing his worst polling on the…
Scrap presidential debates — but not this year
The toughest moment of Joe Biden’s year arrived in May. It was harder than seeing off Bernie Sanders, harder even…
America’s allies don’t like Trump. So what?
So, the Pew Research Center polled more than a dozen allies and, guess what, the allies — from the UK…
The sanctimony of the celebrity Facebook boycott
Kim Kardashian West is the latest in a long line of celebrities, including Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence,…
In defence of the grouse shooting exemption
At the tail end of last week, news emerged that no groups of more than six people were to be allowed…
How the EU is breaking its own Lisbon Treaty
That the European Union takes to the moral high ground on international law when it suits it is hardly new.…
A second lockdown would be a disaster for Boris
Could Britain be heading for a second lockdown? Boris Johnson says his government is doing ‘everything in our power’ to prevent…
The Internal Market Bill isn't radical enough
The more the SNP decries the Internal Market Bill, the more I warm to it. Initially, I considered it sensible…
Hiding Biden from tough questions hurts him more than it helps him
If you show up, people will vote for you. That was the lesson from crucial swing states like Wisconsin and…
Why is Sky UK's Kay Burley so obsessed with Tony Abbott?
Robert Buckland was touring the Westminster studios this morning, batting away questions over the Internal Market Bill and touting his…
Jussie Smollett, reigning queen of the gaslight
MAGA country’s most famous resident wants his C-list career back. And some of the most despicable cretins on the left…
How Extinction Rebellion shot itself in the foot
It was easy to criticise Westminster for caving into Extinction Rebellion’s demands for a ‘citizen’s assembly’ on climate change when…
Covid-19 and the false positive trap
Imagine a world where Covid-19 has been eliminated. To be certain this is true, the government conducts regular tests at…
Germany is terrified of upsetting China
As Europe weighs what course to take in the face of Beijing’s growing belligerence, it has become increasingly clear that…
The advert that reveals China's problem with race
After the Hong Kong protests, America’s Black Lives Matter protests were like manna from heaven for Beijing. Now Chinese politicians could point…
Is liberalism really a mental illness?
Conservative pundits like Michael Savage and Mark Dice like to ruffle feathers by claiming that liberalism is a mental disorder.…
A tighter lockdown could be two weeks away
Significant further restrictions on our freedom to mix with people, in social or work settings, could be introduced in a…
J.K. Rowling's latest novel isn't 'transphobic'
The object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does…
The thinking behind Pompeo's Middle East mission
Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming Democratic…
Ankara's aggression has spurred a most unlikely pact
The monumental accords being signed in Washington between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain represent a new era in Israeli peacemaking.…
Are we becoming immune to the vaccine message?
Much hope is being pinned to a vaccine as our route out of this Covid nightmare. But even if one…
Tory faith in Boris is wavering
Having won that 80 seat majority for his party in December, it is really quite an achievement by Boris Johnson…
Farage could still come back to haunt the Tories on Brexit
Some Tory MPs are worried about a strategy that the party is apparently seriously considering adopting at the next general…
