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Kamala chameleon

13 August 2020 5:38 am

Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…

A statistical tweak has just cut England's Covid death toll by 5,000

13 August 2020 4:47 am

Public Health England has changed its definition of deaths. The new definition is now death in a person with a…

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Cuomo’s nursing home death blame game

13 August 2020 4:35 am

A major Associated Press report this week dove into New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death count and found the numbers…

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The war for your mind

13 August 2020 1:57 am

The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…

The case for a new Act of Union

12 August 2020 11:03 pm

Scexit, not Brexit, will be the word that defines Boris Johnson’s premiership. The Times has a new poll from YouGov…

Spare us Ben & Jerry’s lecture on the Channel migrant crisis

12 August 2020 9:49 pm

Multi-millionaire virtue-signallers Ben and Jerry are at it again. Once again the ice-cream capitalists are doing their woke schtick in…

Could mass testing for Covid-19 do more harm than good?

12 August 2020 7:24 pm

Making a diagnosis used to be a well understood and practised procedure: take a history from someone presenting with symptoms,…

Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?

12 August 2020 7:10 pm

Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…

The mysterious fall of the teenage pregnancy

12 August 2020 4:13 pm

Across the globe, teenage pregnancy rates have been falling for at least the last 10 years but social scientists still…

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Will it be Biden-Harris or Harris-Biden?

12 August 2020 9:51 am

News of Kamala Harris’s selection as Joe Biden’s running mate was greeted by everything but the popping of champagne corks…

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President Kamala, mistress of puppets?

12 August 2020 9:06 am

So, will it be President Kamala Harris after all? You might think so. After all, whoever Joe Biden’s ventriloquist is…

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Kamala Harris ticks all Biden’s boxes

12 August 2020 7:18 am

With his selection of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden bowed time the inevitable. Harris ticks all the boxes — Bay Area…

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Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate

12 August 2020 6:36 am

In a rare win for the police, Joe Biden has selected California senator Kamala Harris to join him on the…

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Donald Trump isn’t mad

12 August 2020 3:06 am

It is alarming how psychiatric diagnoses have crept into the political commentary. Donald Trump, we’ve been told, has narcissistic personality…

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Trump’s Art of the Executive Order

11 August 2020 11:28 pm

The Executive Order is political weakness at its most powerful. The spectacle of Donald Trump adding his Sharpie-stroke to the…

Britain isn't racist

11 August 2020 10:56 pm

In the last few months we’ve been told that Britain is a fundamentally racist society, that the colour of your…

Britain: summer flu is now more deadly than Covid

11 August 2020 10:05 pm

Britain is, of course, in the middle of a deadly pandemic of a novel infectious disease. It’s just that it…

How dangerous is Covid? A Swedish doctor’s perspective

11 August 2020 7:08 pm

I want to preface this article by stating that it is entirely anecdotal and based on my experience working as…

Can Taiwan pull off its China gamble?

11 August 2020 7:08 pm

When Alex Azar, the US health secretary, arrived in Taipei on Sunday, he became the highest-ranking US official to visit…

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Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?

11 August 2020 9:04 am

What do Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Powell, Sidney Poitier and Busta Rhymes have in common? And how are Beyoncé,…

Lebanon’s existential crisis

11 August 2020 5:28 am

It had to happen. On Monday evening, just under a week after 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a…

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Joe Biden should debate

11 August 2020 4:24 am

Why would a benevolent God deny us the prospect of a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? As the…

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Don’t hold your breath for an Ilhan Omar upset

11 August 2020 3:47 am

Ilhan Omar haters have whipped themselves into a hopeful frenzy thinking the first Somali American woman to serve in Congress…

The UK’s incoherent Channel migrant strategy

11 August 2020 2:09 am

I saw a little cloud no bigger than a man’s fist that was coming in from the sea, reported the…

How Covid spread in Sweden's care homes

10 August 2020 11:11 pm

Why did Covid prove so lethal in care homes? Between 2 March and 12 June, there were 66,112 deaths of…