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Four main takeaways from the House’s Big Tech antitrust sideshow
Here’s a terrifying thought: Mark Zuckerberg is the only person in Silicon Valley that the political and intellectual right can…
Three hours to prepare for a local lockdown
My weekend plans have somewhat been ruined by Matt Hancock tonight. The government has announced new lockdown restrictions for over…
Jackson Carlaw’s successor and the fight to save the Union
The Scottish Conservatives are now in crisis. Jackson Carlaw has resigned six months into his leadership and less than a…
Riots for thee, but not for me
A funny thing happened on the way to the riots. Left-wing revolutionaries discovered ‘NIMBY!’ — Not In My Backyard. The…
Has Trump turned you into a masochist?
Welcome back to the Red Room, Democrats. On Thursday morning President Trump fired off a stream of consciousness tweet tinkering…
Why we can't just break up Big Tech
Yesterday was a historic day for Big Tech. For the first time, the CEOs of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple…
Trump’s election delay tweet smacks of desperation
Donald Trump’s tweet mooting an election delay isn’t a sign of strength but weakness. Maybe he’ll say it was just…
Trump’s troop move is a 21st-century strategy
Why should the United States prop up the defense of Germany, the richest country in Europe — and against Russia,…
Network Rail’s cowardly JK Rowling decision
I ❤ JK Rowling. There, now I’m a hate-monger, too. A digital advert reading just that — ‘I ❤ JK…
The rise of Dutch Euroscepticism
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has taken on the mantle of ‘Dr No’ across the capitals of Europe after he took a…
No, Trump can’t delay the election
While cries of ‘authoritarian dictator’ have been lobbied at the President by America’s progressives over the past three and a…
How priests were kept out of hospitals
Mary Wakefield’s piece in today’s magazine – How the Catholic Church betrayed the dying – is right and eloquent in…
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The federal courthouse in downtown Portland has become ground-zero for the nightly orgy of assaults, looting, arson, and public nudity…
The real Joe Biden: what would his presidency look like?
It is usually a bad idea for a presidential candidate to leave himself open to the accusation that he is…
Has the EU finally found its spine when it comes to China?
There is no point putting lipstick on a pig: the relationship between the United States and China, two powers holding…
Biden is not the president America needs
In a 2008 essay in the American Conservative, I encouraged my fellow conservatives to vote for Sen. Barack Obama in…
Will the speculative vaccine shopping spree ever end?
Somewhere, possibly in the land of big sheds, just off the M1 in Leicestershire, must be a burgeoning NHS surplus…
San Francisco in decay
District Attorney Chesa Boudin personifies everything that’s wrong with San Francisco: weak on drugs, weak on crime, weak on racist…
Jamie Oliver and the mad ad ban
There have been a great many political betrayals of late, but there is nothing worse than seeing the government propose…
Covid doesn’t care about your political theories
The President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, took some time out from presiding over the worst collapse in…
Olivia de Havilland’s Red Scare
Olivia de Havilland, who has died aged 104, will forever be remembered for the role of Melanie Hamilton in Gone…
The mock revolution of the elites
‘Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified,’…
Get ready for Trump’s second term
President Trump’s adversaries are running Joe Biden, a fallback Beltway lifer who is credibly accused of selling his office, leaking…
The lunacy of the ‘largely peaceful protest’
The great conundrum facing the anti-American left at the moment is how to react to the violent protest ripping up…
This is what $1,200 looks like in campaign merch
Is your stimulus check on its way? New reports suggest the Republican-run Senate planning to include another $1,200 check in…
