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Is the Labour leadership contest already a done deal?
Labour’s leadership contest has been attracting less and less media interest as it goes on. Despite this, Jeremy Corbyn’s successor…
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren were the losers in New Hampshire
During his first run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire.…
Good riddance to Yang — and Biden
Now that ‘entrepreneur’ Andrew Yang has ended his presidential campaign, can we all admit what a sad commentary on the…
Bernie wins New Hampshire — and Klobuchar replaces Warren as the race’s leading lady
Two big stories have emerged from New Hampshire. The first is not surprising: Bernie Sanders looks like he’ll win. The…
Elizabeth Warren’s trail of tears
Elizabeth Warren will soon be gone, a victim of her faux personality, her failure at identity politics, her badgering, eat-your-spinach…
Why we should welcome a Sinn Fein government
There are those – most of my acquaintance in Ireland, frankly – who can think of nothing worse than Sinn…
Beware Sinn Fein’s Trojan horse
I got my first Irish passport a few months ago. It felt like a vaguely transgressive gesture because my primary…
The minister who politely refused to play the trans language game
This is an article about the power of language in the transgender debate, about how the trans agenda has been…
Trump steals the Dems’ spotlight at New Hampshire rally
President Donald Trump successfully trolled Democrats once again Monday — hosting a packed rally the night before their New Hampshire…
2020 is a mirror image of 2016
A perfect storm enabled Donald Trump’s ascendance in the 2016 primary race, leading him to capture the Republican nomination and…
Boris’s leaked tax plans suggest a truly radical Toryism
‘You want the dowry, but you don’t like the bride’ is how Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol summed up his…
Ireland’s election result is bad news for Brexit
Ireland has given its own twist to the populist uprisings across Europe, with its election ushering in a grim time…
Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscars speech was beyond a joke
The 2020 Oscars will go down in history for two things: Bong Joon-ho’s brilliant film Parasite becoming the first foreign-language…
The BBC has much to learn from Japan’s national broadcaster
NHK is Japan’s version of the BBC – it was actually modelled after the Beeb way back in the 1920s.…
Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ reviewed
Bong Joon-ho's award-winning film is satire, thriller, comedy, allegory and horror all rolled into one
Varadkar’s election gamble backfires as Sinn Fein surge
Irish election results are being counted and it seems that Leo Varadkar’s snap election gamble has worked out as badly…
What stunts should we expect to see at future State of the Unions?
The State of the Union is like that annual meeting where the boss says it was a triumphant year as…
No presidency for old men
What a thrill! Last night, I was dining with a friend in Piccola Italia, a charming restaurant in Manchester, New…
Labour’s radicals need to grow up
As the well-worn cliché has it: if you’re not a socialist at 16, you don’t have a heart; if you’re…
James Carville is right. He’s also to blame
James Carville, the ragin’ cajun, former Democratic strategist and adviser to Bill Clinton, is hot. Carville has been making the…
Pete Buttigieg isn’t going to win
I see that various pundits are competing to write the political epitaph for Joe ‘son-of-a-bitch‘ Biden. That’s entirely understandable. It’s been…
The death of populism has been greatly exaggerated
Have we reached peak populism? This is the question being asked after a recent regional election in Italy delivered a…
Boris has fallen into a trap by sucking up to David Attenborough
Regardless of one’s views on climate change, one should welcome the fact that Boris Johnson removed Claire Perry O’Neill from…
Let’s not forget the unintentional heroes of Brexit
A week on from Brexit day, it is worth stopping and reflecting on just how Britain’s departure from the EU…
The latest Democratic debate was the most pugilistic yet
If you’re after a real fight, come to Manchester, New Hampshire on a Friday night. An idyllic Catholic college smothered…
