World

The BBC only has itself to blame for the licence fee mess

10 August 2020 10:58 pm

For an organisation that likes to be popular these are troubling times for the BBC. This month the Corporation started…

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There is no ‘do no harm’ VP pick

10 August 2020 10:56 pm

If you’ve kept half an eye on the ‘who will it be?’ story that is the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nomination,…

How many years of life did lockdown save – or destroy?

10 August 2020 9:10 pm

It’s official – lockdown will eventually have a greater impact on our lives and health than Covid-19 itself. That, at…

Belarus’s regime is nearing collapse

10 August 2020 7:17 pm

It’s hard to believe Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko will retain his half-affectionate, half-exasperated nickname ‘Batka’ (Dad) after his re-election yesterday in…

The Lib Dem paradox

10 August 2020 5:24 pm

Are the Lib Dems finished? It’s not the first time that question has been asked. In fact, it’s a fairly…

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The Greens turn red

10 August 2020 1:35 am

The Green party has nominated Howie Hawkins to the presidency of the United States. But Hawkins’s victory has seemed preordained…

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The Democrats want a Cold War, but will they get a civil war?

10 August 2020 1:18 am

With the Swamp lovingly tended under the Obama/Biden administration, the Democrats sense a chance to end President Trump and carry…

New York vs NRA — and the silencing of dissent

9 August 2020 8:50 pm

On Thursday morning, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association. According to James,…

Herd immunity is still key in the fight against Covid-19

9 August 2020 11:09 am

Open or close? Open the schools and close the pubs? Open bowling alleys but not skating rinks? Allow open restaurants…

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Why are black Americans likelier to die of COVID than Latinos?

9 August 2020 4:34 am

Only part of the dramatic racial differences in age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates can be explained by racial differences. The remainder reflects a substantially lower black…

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Meet Gen Z GOP, a group of confused liberals

9 August 2020 4:06 am

Meet the hip new Republican youth group: ‘Gen Z GOP’. Media outlets welcomed the group with open arms. NeverTrumper Bill…

Will HSBC protect its pro-democracy staff in Hong Kong?

8 August 2020 5:00 pm

Noel Quinn, the chief executive of HSBC, declines to say whether his bank will disown pro-democracy staff who fall foul…

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What’s on the agenda?

8 August 2020 7:47 am

Donald Trump has been tight-lipped about his second-term agenda, preferring to speak about the past accomplishments of his administration when…

Spain's bizarre mask policies

8 August 2020 1:48 am

Spain has a reputation for having some of the strictest policies on masks in Europe, with the public even encouraged…

What's up with Macron's Lawrence of Arabia stunt?

8 August 2020 12:40 am

President Macron neither lacks chutzpah nor a lust for drama. His walkabout yesterday amid the devastation of Lebanon’s Beirut, following…

Evening Standard sacks nearly half its journalists after Covid crunch

7 August 2020 11:00 pm

Last Friday, Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard, was celebrating his nomination for a peerage. But…

Palmerston's retirement leaves Larry as top cat

7 August 2020 9:33 pm

Power struggles at the heart of government continued today, with a key member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announcing…

The real Covid-19 threat

7 August 2020 4:00 pm

Daniel Kahneman called it anchoring; I call it tunnel vision. It’s when we depend too heavily on our pre-existing ideas…

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Hidin’ Biden’s basement convention

7 August 2020 3:45 am

Not everyone appreciates the extent to which the Democrats pushing Joe Biden for president are students of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.…

Cancelling Kindergarten Cop is a step too far

6 August 2020 9:58 pm

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s late-Eighties to early-Nineties comedies have not gone down in history as great triumphs. Films like Junior and Twins…

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Top Democrats contemplate civil war if Biden loses

6 August 2020 9:09 pm

The chattering caste of Washington DC has spent much of the summer obsessed with the idea that Donald Trump will…

Facebook is wrong to censor Donald Trump

6 August 2020 9:01 pm

Donald Trump has hardly covered himself in glory in his latest public responses to the pandemic. His calamitous interview with…

Can Douglas Ross stop Scexit?

6 August 2020 8:43 pm

Douglas Ross is the new leader of the Scottish Conservatives and since his predecessor lasted all of 167 days, best…

Pakistan has transformed into a covid-19 success story

6 August 2020 7:07 pm

As the covid-19 pandemic rages on, Pakistan is emerging as an unheralded, and unlikely, success story. Despite having the fifth…

Europe is finally coming to terms with Brexit

6 August 2020 4:00 pm

An article in the Dutch, left-leaning newspaper Het Parool led with the headline ‘Despite Brexit, multinationals prefer London over Amsterdam…