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How to be right
Two broad camps divide American conservatism today: those who get it, and those who don’t — the woke and unwoke,…
Could blood plasma be used to treat Covid-19?
What are we to make of the decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant emergency use…
The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots
Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter. This latest…
Why isn’t Joe Biden being tested for COVID-19?
Joe Biden has faced questions on his mental and physical acuity throughout his presidential bid. For example, he first said…
Scots poll in favour of free expression
The SNP’s determination to push on with its draconian Hate Crime Bill has put it on the wrong side of…
Jake Auchincloss and incendiary rhetoric
I can’t claim to know what Jake Auchincloss was thinking when he asked, 10 years ago, why it was acceptable…
Scotland's Hate Crime Bill would have a chilling effect on free speech
Among the encroachments on Milton’s three supreme liberties contained in Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Bill is a cloturing of the…
Who really wants to delegitimize the election result?
On Thursday afternoon, prior to the final night of the Democratic convention, four New York Times opinion columnists gathered to…
Vegans, your soya milk is killing the planet
In the popular imagination, veganism and environmentalism go hand-in-hand. Both are championed – often in one voice – by ultra-progressive…
Without Black Wednesday there would have been no Brexit
Last Sunday, BBC Radio 4’s The Reunion devoted 40 minutes to ‘Black Wednesday’, as our exit from the ERM was…
Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
New polling: Half of Brits think Scotland will break away
Boris Johnson is desperate to avoid becoming the prime minister who oversees the break-up of the Union, yet it appears many…
China disappears at the DNC
Members of media hailed the all-digital Democratic National Convention and convention coordinator Stephanie Cutter, the former Obama adviser famous for…
We're stuck in a coronavirus time warp
There is actually some good news emerging from the tragic gloom of the Covid-19 epidemic. Despite some relaxation of lockdown…
It's time for Imran Khan to accept Israel is here to stay
‘Our stand on Israel is clear,’ Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan said this week. ‘We cannot recognise Israel until Palestinians…
Brexit blame game as latest talks stall
Despite Boris Johnson’s call for Brexit negotiations to speed up, the seventh round of talks has today ended with little progress. Neither side…
Sleepy no more: Joe Biden unmasked
It was like an Elvis sighting. ‘WHERE’S HUNTER,’ Trump kept bellowing in his tweets. Well, there was the recently reclusive…
Joe Biden offers platitudes, not policies
Joe Biden’s speech was effective in many ways and sure to please his supporters. But anyone who expected him to…
Joe Biden's Republican Convention
Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts.…
It's a mistake to think all positive Covid tests are the same
Italy was the first country in Europe to implement lockdown, so what can we learn from the country’s attempt to…
Could Giorgia Meloni become Italy's first female PM?
Last summer, a bare-chested Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League and interior minister at the time, roamed the trendiest…
Lukashenko has learned to ignore the EU's empty threats
On Belarus, the EU has been eager to talk the talk. But it has been slower to walk the walk.…
Joe Biden’s DNC speech
Good evening. Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: give people light and…
That dreary Bloomberg speech cost him $18 million
There’s an infamous anecdote from an old New York magazine story, in which then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived at…
Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?
‘Have you guys been following 4Chan?’ asks Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 2017 video. A mysterious ‘patriot’ named ‘Q’, Greene…
