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Ministers close to closing northern pubs and restaurants
We are at a critical moment in the second surge of coronavirus. Ministers, scientists and officials are deeply concerned about…
The US election is Joe Biden’s to lose
Donald Trump is back at the White House after a scary three-day stay at the Walter Reed medical complex. For…
House Republicans accuse Democrats of ignoring censorship in Big Tech report
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are releasing their own report on Big Tech on Tuesday, countering a Democratic report…
It’s far too early to write off Donald Trump
Too many pundits are ready to call the 2020 presidential race with a month to go. Four weeks is a…
What does Boris Johnson's Tory party stand for?
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…
The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
What is Donald Trump’s greatest gift? Some say his finely honed instincts; others, his tabloid genius for publicity. But we…
The sinister Vatican plot against Cardinal Pell
Cardinal George Pell isn’t the sort of man to say ‘so there is a God after all!’ – but plenty…
The hypocritical oath
‘Please tell me you’re Republicans,’ President Ronald Reagan joked with his doctors as he headed into surgery after an assassination…
The hounding of a Scottish poet by trans activists
For a witch hunt to begin extremists must so dominate a movement any sin, however slight, becomes a heresy the…
Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics
The United States has always been the world’s leading religious marketplace. Even before independence, the American colonies were more fervently…
Sunak warns of hardship
When Rishi Sunak was appointed Chancellor in February, he must never have imagined that his first address to the Conservative…
Why won't the UK vaccinate the whole population?
In British COVID vaccine taskforce head Kate Bingham’s interview with the Financial Times, where she says that vaccinating the whole…
Are all political parties destined to fail?
We seem to be entering another era of political party expansion. There’s Laurence Fox’s new party, not to mention the…
Biden can smell victory in his battle against Trump
‘How is the president feeling?’ shouldn’t be a difficult question to answer. And yet over the last 24 hours, nobody…
Why are journalists making Trump's illness all about themselves?
What’s the most important part of this developing Trump-has-Covid story? Is it ‘how sick is the President?’ Or is it…
Boris Johnson warns of turbulence ahead
As Conservative party conference gets underway online, Boris Johnson used an appearance on the Andrew Marr show to warn of the…
Following the evidence for hospital admissions
The recent warnings of exponential growth of Covid-19 cases, inevitably followed by a rise in hospital admissions, is one focus…
Nigel Farage is watching and waiting for the next Tory slip-up
A few weeks ago, Nigel Farage enjoyed a get together with a very senior Conservative party figure. Brexit was, naturally,…
The New York Times has no editorial policy
The New York Times put many lives in danger in June when it published an op-ed from Republican senator Tom…
‘The Melania Tapes’ reveal she’s even cooler than we thought
Just a couple of hours before President Trump announced that he and his wife, first lady Melania, had tested positive…
Why the EU can't sue the UK
Michel Barnier has very politely confirmed that the EU will be suing the UK in a respectful manner. That has…
America has a long tradition of voter fraud
Donald Trump was making modern political history even before he fell ill in the final stretch of his election campaign.…
Covid-19 is Trump's hardest fight yet
Donald Trump has confronted a long list of adversaries and weathered an even longer list of scandals in his nearly…
Trump’s enemies badly want him to survive coronavirus
President Trump is being helicoptered to Walter Reed Hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis. The media are following the story closely…
The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub
Why did Pope Francis refuse to meet Secretary Pompeo in Rome this week? The obvious answer is that he didn’t…
