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What does the different Covid data tell us?
In spite of the approval of one vaccine and the likely approval of at least two others, the government seems…
Brexit negotiations paused ahead of crunch talks
Those hoping for white smoke in the Brexit negotiations tonight will be left disappointed. After a week of intense negotiations,…
A Sudan-Israel peace deal could be Trump's crowning achievement
Twitter is not always kind to the Jewish state. But the peace accord between Israel, UAE and Bahrain that was…
France would be foolish to veto a Brexit deal
Britain and France are heading for an almighty bust-up over Brexit. This morning the French junior minister for European affairs,…
Nike Japan’s lecturing was bound to backfire
David Ogilvy once said that ‘a good advertisement is one that sells the product without drawing attention to itself’. If…
Brexit talks go down to the wire
After the past few years, it is hard to take Brexit deadlines seriously; they have a tendency to always slide…
Russians are wary of Putin's vaccine
Never one to let a bandwagon pass by, Vladimir Putin launched his own national vaccine programme the moment Britain said…
Boris will be worried by the growing Tory rebellions
The beginning of the end for Theresa May was when she tried to see if she could pass her Brexit…
Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
Like many other Americans who had the misfortune to live under socialism, I’ve been having lots of flashbacks lately. In…
Joe Biden isn't the president the EU thinks he is
For four years, president Donald Trump radicalised international relations. There was a shift towards the nation state and unilateralism, beginning with the…
They think they’re better than you
Nancy Pelosi’s salon visit. Bill de Blasio’s gym session. Gavin Newsom’s French Laundry soirée. Cockburn can’t even keep up with…
Boris hasn't seen the last of the Tory lockdown rebels
Boris Johnson is wrong if he thinks this week’s Tory rebellion on the tiered system marks the end of his…
Boris’s clash over masks
‘Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme,’ the free market economist Milton Friedman famously noted. So just how…
Twitter is in China’s pocket
Twitter has been quick on the draw when responding to tweets by President Trump in the last month, as he…
Did Brexit lead to the UK’s vaccine success?
Today the United Kingdom became the first country in the West to clinically authorise a vaccine protecting against Covid-19, after…
Trump’s big Bill Barr bust
For all the caterwauling on the left about one William P. Barr, he hasn’t really delivered for Donald Trump, apart…
Boris Johnson suffers his biggest Tory revolt since the election
When Boris Johnson addressed MPs this evening on a Zoom call ahead of the Commons vote on his new tier…
The solving of a biological mystery
DNA is the blueprint that encodes the instructions to make proteins. Proteins are the building blocks and the machines that…
A landmark victory against hormone blockers for children
Briton Keira Bell has won her legal case against the NHS’s only gender identity development service (GIDS) for under-18s, after…
The coming cable news crisis
TV pundits and reporters may personally be cheering that President Trump appears likely to be booted from office come January,…
Leaving the Union would harm Scotland more than Brexit
The Spectator recently ran a piece by Andrew Wilson, author of the SNP’s Sustainable Growth Commission, under the headline ‘Scotland…
The baffling Georgia boycott effort
Right-wingers on social media are calling for Trump supporters to refuse to vote for Republican candidates Kelly Loeffler and David…
The Trump presidency’s funniest moments
Is it too early to wax nostalgic about the hilarity of the Trump years? Could Trump somehow — somehow —…
Covid is a nightmare for libertarian Tories
These are confusing times for all of us. But for small-government libertarian Tories, Covid-19 is all their worst nightmares compressed…
Why Egypt's brutal regime is cracking down on critics
History is accelerating in the Middle East once more. Nuclear scientists are dying in Iran; and again, in Egypt, the…
