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Have Arab nations forgotten about Palestine by accepting Israel?
The Palestinians are entering one of the most precarious periods in their nation’s history. The normalisation of relations between Israel…
The stock market isn’t the success story Trump thinks it is
COVID-19 is still raging, with little sign of coming under control. The economy is already a tenth smaller than it…
The case for mass testing
This morning, Matt Hancock claimed on the Today programme that the government is now working as fast as it can…
Farewell, Public Health England
Farewell, Public Health England. Hello, National Institute for Health Protection. As expected, the hammer has fallen on the agency that…
Why weren't we wearing masks at the start of the crisis?
The rise of the face mask has been one of the remarkable features of the later period of the Covid-19…
Why Trump won't stop at Huawei
Cash is no longer king in China. Much like Sweden, the country’s young and old opt for digital payments, made…
An assassination verdict divides Lebanon
Almost a decade ago, I went to Lebanon to investigate who had killed its Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. It was…
The Democrats have learned nothing in four years
On night two of the Democratic National Convention, Jack Schlossberg, son of Carolyn Kennedy and grandson of President John F.…
Bill Clinton: from boomer to Zoomer
It’s no fun to see Bill Clinton in a virtual vacuum. He’s a people person, a glad-hander, a back-rubber, a…
Four moments from the cutting room floor of Monday’s DNC coverage
Rather than the initially planned four-day knees-up in Wisconsin, the 2020 Democratic National Convention began with a two-hour virtual broadcast…
The rise of Scotland's Covid nationalism
Whenever some London celebrity with a hamster’s grasp of Scottish politics simpers about moving north to escape the flaxen-fringed Franco…
In many ways, Andrew Cuomo is just a metaphor
With the United States lurching from crisis to crisis, the Democrats want their convention to present them as the tough,…
Michelle Obama goes low on the first night of the virtual DNC
What was that? That was the question the internet was asking as the disjointed first night of the Democratic National…
Going postal: the USPS conspiracy theory is the new Russiagate
For the past three years, our national media has been fired up by the urge to fact-check. They fact-checked Donald…
Joe Biden’s Weak Ass Policies
Finally, Joe Biden has submitted himself to the test of a rigorous interview. Unfortunately it wasn’t conducted by Axios’s boomerang-slinger…
Will Biden get away with his bad record on race?
If there’s been one hallmark of the Trump campaign’s messaging against Joe Biden, it’s that the former VP is the…
James Carville’s advice to Joe Biden
On Monday night, the Democratic party kicks off the first-of-its-kind, never-seen-before, virtual presidential nominating convention. In anticipation of the big online…
After the exams U-turn, will unis have enough places?
So now that A-Levels will be judged on teacher-assessed grades (or centre assessed grades) where does that leave us? At…
Steve Bannon’s army of lookalikes
Stephen K. Bannon positioned himself as the godfather of a new American political movement. Now he’s cultivated the aesthetic of…
Milwaukee is a victory for Silicon Valley’s shadow state
The real venue for the Democratic National Convention will not be Milwaukee, but the online platforms that will facilitate and…
The exams U-turn is an act of damage limitation
After a bruising few days for Boris Johnson and his ministers over the grading system for A-levels and GCSEs, the…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
Get ready for the return of the Iran Deal
The Trump administration has the first successful foreign policy of any administration since that of George H.W. Bush. It must…
The government should have trusted schools on A-levels
On Friday 20 March, I had an email exchange with a friendly professor at a top university. He confirmed that his…
