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Trump’s hydroxychloroquine kick is a billionaire quirk

21 May 2020 7:47 am

Though it is yet to enjoy the endorsement of the UN, or the approval of the Supreme Court, the greatest…

Should Britain relax the two-metre distance rule?

21 May 2020 4:20 am

Could the Government be about to relax the two-metre rule for social distancing? On Wednesday morning, professor Robert Dingwall, a…

Keir Starmer's big weakness was exposed at PMQs

21 May 2020 2:10 am

It has come down to a classroom contest. The swot versus the wag. The smart Alec against the rugger captain.…

Libya is now the Middle East's most important proxy war

21 May 2020 1:42 am

Libya has been in the midst of civil war for almost a decade. However, in the last year, the conflict…

Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion over lockdown

21 May 2020 12:56 am

Today is the last day of the hybrid parliament. When MPs return after recess on 2 June, it will be…

Hong Kong is baffled by Britain's coronavirus response

21 May 2020 12:13 am

To Hongkongers, Britain’s coronavirus response is nothing short of a disaster. Since I began self-isolating in London days before the…

Could negative gilt yields be Boris Johnson's magic money tree?

20 May 2020 11:56 pm

A few months ago, Boris Johnson fought a general election saying that there was no ‘magic money tree’ and accusing…

Stanford study suggests coronavirus might not be as deadly as flu

20 May 2020 8:50 pm

One of the great unknowns of the Covid-19 crisis is just how deadly the disease is. Much of the panic…

Beware Scotland's hate crime bill

20 May 2020 4:01 pm

Burns, Hume, Adam Smith, and others who shone in that remarkable intellectual period in Scotland’s history, were not the cradle…

What does China actually want from Britain?

20 May 2020 3:30 pm

How the west responds to China is now the defining foreign policy issue of our time. The communist party’s suppression…

President Trump and Speaker Pelosi

Pelosi goes full Trump

20 May 2020 8:10 am

Speaker Nancy Pelosi skipped the sugarcoating and punched the President in the gut on Monday. Trump had announced to the…

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California spreads the wealth…to illegal immigrants

20 May 2020 5:51 am

California is mastering government of the people, by the people, for…illegal aliens? Starting this week, illegal immigrants living in California…

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Trump picks a Swedish model

20 May 2020 5:12 am

Donald Trump is moving toward a Swedish model. His vitality sustained by regular doses of hydroxychloroquine, President Prophylaxis is pushing…

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Bill Barr and the single standard of justice

20 May 2020 4:36 am

You have to hand it to the New York Times. They certainly know how to spin a story. Yesterday, Attorney General William…

It's time to take a stand against Chinese bullying

20 May 2020 2:43 am

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in the magazine how the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to bully…

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The Stacey Abrams presidency

20 May 2020 2:26 am

‘You don’t run for second place.’ That’s how Stacey Abrams responded when asked if she would consider being presidential hopeful…

Germany’s flag burning ban is a threat to freedom of expression

19 May 2020 7:13 pm

Germany’s national parliament has made the public burning of the European Union flag and flags of foreign countries punishable by…

Where is Britain's China strategy?

19 May 2020 5:40 pm

The UK doesn’t have a China strategy. We have not had one since George Osborne declared a ‘golden era’ of…

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Is it time to bring back Steve Bannon?

19 May 2020 8:19 am

Until recently, it seemed unlikely that Donald Trump would need to call on the services of his former strategist Steve…

The growing evidence on vitamin D and Covid

18 May 2020 11:32 pm

The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now…

Tories should listen to Farage’s warnings about Channel migrants

18 May 2020 9:59 pm

The idea of a flotilla of little ships crossing the English Channel from France to deposit their beleaguered human cargo…

Why didn't Boris act sooner against coronavirus?

18 May 2020 9:43 pm

It is too easy to become obsessive in whole or partial lockdown. And my obsession for weeks now is why…

global war on terror

Still, the Global War on Terrorism goes on

18 May 2020 8:24 pm

I can think of only a single positive thing to say about World War One: it ended. Yet in addition…

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It isn’t necessarily the economy, stupid!

18 May 2020 7:59 pm

‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ With those now famous words, the Democratic strategist James Carville summarized the 1992 election between President…

Jonathan Sumption: 'You cannot imprison an entire population'

18 May 2020 7:00 am

The current rationale for the lockdown is incoherent. The old rationale was: ‘you must spread the infections over a longer…