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Was Sweden’s refusal to lockdown a gruesome mistake?
Was there ever a jury destined to spend so long over its deliberations as the one considering whether Sweden made…
Europe's shameful silence on Belarus
I last saw Minsk, my home town, in June 2019. There was no hint of what was to come: Belarussians…
What explains the rising number of children with gender issues?
I have recently read a fascinating new paper, via a Mail on Sunday report, about the growing number of children…
Keir Starmer would be wise to avoid a Lib Dem alliance
The myth that is developing goes like this: Labour can’t win enough seats to form a majority government at the…
Smash the system: universities and the rise of market Stalinism
As a new generation of school leavers now consider their options on the basis of predicted A-levels and Highers, what…
The joyous Israel-UAE peace deal
There is a time for war and a time for peace, Ecclesiastes tells us. Joyously, in the middle of a…
Exclusive: half of Americans support Trump bypassing Congress for COVID relief
More than half of registered voters support President Trump using executive action to bypass Congress and extend coronavirus relief measures,…
Will Trump win Minnesota?
Sen. Amy Klobuchar may have to eat her words after declaring last year that Donald Trump will ‘never win Minnesota’.…
The UAE-Israel deal is a triumph of Trump’s personal diplomacy
The American-brokered opening of full relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is a rare outbreak of peace and…
The Israel-UAE peace deal was made in Iran
The last time I was in Israel people were preparing for the worst. ‘This crazy bastard is going to annex…
We've failed the class of 2020
Much of the coverage of today’s exam results is dominated by disappointed Jacks and furious Jills. Determined parents are planning…
Why are so many dictators former doctors?
Are we increasingly living under a ‘doctatorship’? The influence of the medical profession over our everyday lives – from personal…
What's the true cost of lockdown on our kids' futures?
We’ve heard endless statistics on the likely death toll from Covid-19, and over the past week we have learned just…
Why are we so sniffy about the Russian vaccine?
It didn’t help that it was unveiled by a swaggering Vladimir Putin. Or that it was called Sputnik V –…
The hidden costs of Covid
We do not know what the long-term impact of coronavirus will be on mental health. We are still not through…
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
A statistical tweak has just cut England's Covid death toll by 5,000
Public Health England has changed its definition of deaths. The new definition is now death in a person with a…
Cuomo’s nursing home death blame game
A major Associated Press report this week dove into New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death count and found the numbers…
The war for your mind
The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…
The case for a new Act of Union
Scexit, not Brexit, will be the word that defines Boris Johnson’s premiership. The Times has a new poll from YouGov…
Spare us Ben & Jerry’s lecture on the Channel migrant crisis
Multi-millionaire virtue-signallers Ben and Jerry are at it again. Once again the ice-cream capitalists are doing their woke schtick in…
Could mass testing for Covid-19 do more harm than good?
Making a diagnosis used to be a well understood and practised procedure: take a history from someone presenting with symptoms,…
Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?
Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…
The mysterious fall of the teenage pregnancy
Across the globe, teenage pregnancy rates have been falling for at least the last 10 years but social scientists still…
