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The EU’s state aid hypocrisy

9 September 2020 10:53 pm

Another crucial period has begun in the Brexit saga. Boris Johnson has ruled out extending the transition stage beyond 1…

Israel is a true ally – it's time Boris remembered that

9 September 2020 10:06 pm

Boris Johnson has described himself as ‘a passionate defender of Israel’ and, what’s more, ‘a life-long friend, admirer and supporter…

A Brexit question Boris Johnson must answer

9 September 2020 5:56 pm

The question for Boris Johnson is why he signed a Withdrawal Agreement that gives the EU the power to decide whether…

Here's how the Covid nightmare could be over by Christmas

9 September 2020 5:00 pm

Matt Hancock has announced his ‘Moonshot’ project of achieving population-wide mass testing for Covid-19. He should be congratulated for this…

Macron's Brexit swansong is about to unfold

9 September 2020 4:00 pm

At a solemn ceremony at the Panthéon to mark the 150th anniversary of the (re-)birth of the Republic, president Macron…

Woke capital is winning the left

9 September 2020 10:35 am

Cockburn attempted to celebrate Labor Day by doing no work whatsoever, and he would have succeeded if his friends hadn’t…

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Kim Klacik and the urban GOP effort

9 September 2020 5:50 am

Baltimore Republicans are an oddity in Baltimore. Perhaps some older Americans remember Spiro Agnew, but that’s more or less it…

Starmer sketches out a Brexit position

9 September 2020 3:09 am

As Boris Johnson comes under fire from his own MPs over his potentially unlawful Brexit plans, Keir Starmer has made his…

Boris Johnson's Brexit dilemma

9 September 2020 2:42 am

The penny seems to have belatedly dropped for Boris Johnson. He can have a no-trade-deal relationship with the European Union…

Is Trump's campaign running out of cash?

8 September 2020 9:50 pm

You can tell something about a campaign by the desperation-levels of its fundraising emails. In recent weeks, Team Trump’s digital…

Disney's Mulan is everything Xi Jinping could wish for

8 September 2020 9:00 pm

The last year has seen a litany of corporates bend the knee to the mighty Chinese Communist party. From HSBC’s…

Are we really seeing a second European spike?

8 September 2020 8:22 pm

You’ve probably seen the graphs, cases are way up in France, even higher than the first wave, and yet deaths…

How the Tories can stop the SNP's hate crime bill

8 September 2020 6:08 pm

Free speech concerns about the SNP’s Hate Crime Bill have been mounting for months now, so it was inevitable that…

Ripping up the Withdrawal Agreement is a big mistake

8 September 2020 4:30 pm

Like most things Brexit related, it depends on who you believe. The EU is concerned over the announcement that the…

Does Catalonia really want independence?

8 September 2020 4:00 pm

In 1714, after a long siege, Spain managed to regain control of Barcelona after the War of Spanish Succession. Catalan…

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The Atlantic twists the truth

8 September 2020 7:22 am

The Atlantic has stunk up an otherwise beautiful Labor Day weekend with a uniquely ugly story. Anti-Trump editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claims that…

The vaccine goalposts have shifted

8 September 2020 3:42 am

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…

Identity politics and the erosion of liberalism

8 September 2020 1:18 am

A new kind of politics has taken root, righteous intimidation. Occasional outbursts of violent outrage are not new, but today…

Covid-19 and the end of clinical medicine as we know it

8 September 2020 12:48 am

When we trained at medical school we were taught to approach each patient on his or her own merits. We…

Why Boris thinks no deal might be worth the pain

7 September 2020 9:58 pm

You may wonder why on earth a Tory government led by Boris Johnson, the heirs to Thatcher for goodness sake,…

It’s time for the West to ditch its Russian playbook

7 September 2020 9:37 pm

We have been here before. Russia is at the centre of an international crisis of its own creation. And we…

Boris Johnson's Brexit deadline

7 September 2020 7:45 pm

After months of coronavirus leading the news agenda, Brexit is back. The Prime Minister has overnight promised to quit the…

Extinction Rebellion's newspaper stunt has backfired badly

7 September 2020 7:30 pm

I believe that halting and if we can, reversing man-made climate change is one of the most important challenges facing…

Is Britain a nation in fear of safetyism?

7 September 2020 5:26 pm

It should come as no surprise that Britain’s city centres remain, in the words of CBI chief Carolyn Fairbairn, ‘ghost…

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Is Donald Trump really anti-abortion?

6 September 2020 8:39 pm

At the Republican National Convention last month, he was repeatedly described as the ‘most pro-life President ever’. According to some…