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How Trump wins
Donald Trump is trying to break through a 2020 wall. By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts…
The Kondo effect in politics
The decluttering crusade of home-organizing guru Marie Kondo has taken on a life of its own. Kondo’s effort to shame us…
Will Cambridge stand up for free speech in China?
Last month, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, of Churchill College, Cambridge University, tweeted ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’. She was abused online and…
Coronavirus has exposed the EU’s greatest flaw
Politics begins and ends with sovereignty: the duty and right to make the legitimate final decision. We have seen this…
Pro-lifers, it’s time for civil disobedience
The Supreme Court has ruled in June Medical Services, LLC vs Russo that the dismemberment and removal of unborn human lives was more…
Will the BBC become a victim of its own bias?
The BBC is losing me. It’s a sudden estrangement and an unwelcome one but I can’t seem to shake it…
President Trump grants clemency to Roger Stone
Well, he finally did it. After months of anticipation, President Donald Trump has signed ‘an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting…
'Rishinomics' could cost the Tories the next election
A truism is emerging that the Tories’ massive public spending has left Labour politically with nowhere to go. This quasi-social-democrat…
Prepare for Javid vs Sunak in the next Tory leadership contest
In 1992 a young footballer named Dion Dublin left my local team, Cambridge United, to take up one of the…
From letter to worse
It is a truth generally acknowledged that any statement of civil principles will now be met with pitchforks and personal…
If only Kanye’s run were serious
It was June 2015. Bill Maher was holding court with assorted journalists to discuss the 2016 race. The Republican field…
Who funds #NeverTrump?
On December 17, 2018, the Weekly Standard published its final issue. The brand had been damaged beyond salvation; its anti-Trump gambit had…
Do all black lives matter to BLM?
‘I understand black lives matter. But that’s not my movement, right now. My movement is to let them know that…
What's the true cost of lockdown?
Mental health has always been the pauper when it came to medical provision and its sufferers long stigmatised. Some well-meaning…
Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist
The Black Lives Matter movement has put racial sensitivity at the top of the agenda. A new atmosphere of moral…
Harping on Harper’s
Earlier this week, a motley assortment of about 150 sententious bourgeois liberals, joined by a couple of Chamberlain conservatives, diminished…
Can Biden avoid the debates?
In an opinion column for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman proposes that Joe Biden debate Donald Trump only if…
Kanye for president? Ye, he can
Kanye West is a great artist. But would he make a great president? Kanye and Trump are certainly similar. They…
How rich is Trump?
The celebrations by Donald Trump’s opponents may be premature. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that he is not above the…
How the Supreme Court became the ‘most dangerous branch’
From 1969 to today, presidents have appointed eighteen men and women to the U.S. Supreme Court. Of those eighteen justices,…
Karen jokes aren't funny any more
What’s in a name? Answer: if it’s Karen, quite a lot. Over the past week my moniker has come to…
Is Boris brave enough to stand up to the Nimbys?
In the next few weeks, the government will publish planning reforms designed to simplify the system and free up land…
Target for half of kids to go to university dropped
In a sign of how worried the government is about youth unemployment, it will – quiet literally – pay firms…
Watch: Huawei execs grilled on Hong Kong
A handful of Huawei executives testified in front of the Commons’ Science and Technology Committee on Thursday morning, to discuss…
Gavin Williamson is right to call out educational snobbery
Politicians give speeches all the time, but with differing levels of significance. Can you think of a genuinely important political…
