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Boris's 'New Deal' is nothing of the sort

1 July 2020 4:41 pm

The best thing I can say about Boris Johnson is that he’s not a real Tory. The Prime Minister belongs…

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The Kushner conundrum

1 July 2020 2:01 pm

After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…

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The poison of reparations

1 July 2020 3:27 am

Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…

Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism

1 July 2020 2:03 am

Dear fellow citizens, In the wake of the horrifying and brutal killing of George Floyd, many in the UK expressed…

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Fashion designer vs former rapper: the 2020 election you need to follow

1 July 2020 2:00 am

Ola Hawatmeh, the Republican nominee for New York’s 19th congressional district, doesn’t bring many surprises to the table policy-wise. She’s…

Does Boris's 'new deal' offer anything new?

1 July 2020 1:34 am

Today Boris Johnson launched his ‘new deal’ for Britain – billed as an economic recovery plan to follow the Covid…

Can antivirals defeat Covid-19?

30 June 2020 10:26 pm

Can antivirals help us defeat coronavirus? The odds don’t look good. The use of antiviral compounds against respiratory viruses has…

Should we be afraid of this new swine flu?

30 June 2020 10:13 pm

Imagine if a vaccine for Covid-19 was approved tomorrow, and that within weeks we had all been vaccinated. Would life…

Could Corbynites infiltrate the Lib Dems?

30 June 2020 4:01 pm

It’s funny how politics works. This time last year, the talk was of whether Labour moderates should leave their party…

What happens if the Leicester lockdown fails?

30 June 2020 3:35 pm

The government’s decision to lock Leicester down, closing all non-essential retail from today and schools from Thursday for all but…

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Is Bannon back?

30 June 2020 5:44 am

Has the Trump campaign finally grown desperate enough to bring back Steve Bannon? The double whammy of the COVID-19 pandemic…

Boris Johnson could quickly come unstuck

30 June 2020 4:13 am

The Conservative party is no longer the party of the rich, while the Labour party is no longer the party…

How worried should we be about a second wave?

30 June 2020 2:05 am

Now that we are two months past the peak of the UK coronavirus epidemic, many fear the emergence of a…

Syria's nightmare is far from over

30 June 2020 1:20 am

With the world’s attention focused on the ongoing fight against coronavirus, Syria’s conflict rumbles on. Hundreds of thousands have died.…

Was Covid with us long before anyone realised?

29 June 2020 11:37 pm

One of the mysteries of the Covid-19 crisis is how the disease seemed to bubble up out of nowhere in…

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End of empire

29 June 2020 11:32 pm

The end of World War Two inaugurated the era of American dominion, with the United States politically, economically and militarily…

Isn’t it time Sacha Baron Cohen got cancelled?

29 June 2020 9:46 pm

How helpful of the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to reveal that there are two or three people in America who…

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Is this the end of history?

29 June 2020 5:04 am

Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters: ‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill…

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It’s not about Woodrow Wilson. It’s about indoctrination

28 June 2020 6:20 pm

On November 18, 2015, a group of Princeton University undergraduates calling themselves the Black Justice League, or BJL, invaded historic…

Even Japan could be about to embrace remote working

28 June 2020 6:00 pm

A Japanese banker once told me that his company had opened an expensive showcase office block in the centre of…

The rise of coercive progressivism

28 June 2020 5:36 pm

What has followed the killing of George Floyd did not begin with the death of a man under the knee…

Is Leicester going to see England’s first local lockdown?

27 June 2020 11:53 pm

The first local lockdown – and therefore a test of whether local lockdowns will be effective in suppressing coronavirus outbreaks…

Has Boris's luck finally run out?

27 June 2020 4:18 pm

In the grand scheme of things, it is easy to overestimate the importance of Parliamentary performances. But they do influence…

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Do we erase Black history when we take down statues?

27 June 2020 6:30 am

The Summer Of Our Discontent is in full swing and the social guillotines — at first applied to legitimate injustice…

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J’Accuse Barack Obama!

27 June 2020 3:04 am

When President Obama was in his 75-day transition to the Presidency, he initiated correspondence with Supreme Leader Khamenei of Iran…