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‘Kind of funny’: former House staffer rejects Foreign Affairs Committee’s defense of Afghanistan investigation
A senior investigator who resigned from the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week is hitting back at the committee’s attempts…
Why is the Welsh government so worried about racist buildings?
It’s hard to keep up with what is racist these days. It used to be straightforward. You know, discriminating against,…
Labour are bowing to China’s influence
The new Labour government is supposedly committed to ‘defend[ing] our sovereignty and our democratic values’, as its manifesto put it,…
Left-wing media’s double standards on show at DNC
To the Windy City, where the Democratic National Convention is in full swing. In the early hours of this morning,…
A Joe Biden convention with Kamala Harris layered over it
Chicago Even for someone used to the idea of mass media lies, the dichotomy between the way the 2024 DNC…
Librarians attending ‘whiteness studies’ to avoid ‘racist’ venues
Just when you think the equality and diversity police can’t get any madder, they do. Now it transpires that libraries…
The selfishness of defecting to another country
Elite sport is a selfish business. It’s all about achieving success for yourself. However much others have contributed to your…
Labour are about to ‘switch off’ growth
What a joke the government’s promise to concentrate on ‘growth, growth, growth’ is becoming. Since the Prime Minister uttered those…
Why the ‘sensibles’ aren’t happy now the Tories are gone
I have to confess that, like many other commentators, I thought that the coming of the Labour government would mean…
Drug deaths rise again under the SNP
Scotland’s drug misuse deaths – the worst in Europe – have long been a stain on the Scottish government’s record.…
How did the superyacht Bayesian sink?
On Monday morning at 5 a.m. the superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily, leaving one man dead and six…
Trump was ‘very rude’, thought Queen
Good heavens. As the 2024 US presidential campaigns pick up pace, some rather damning revelations have emerged about the impression…
This is only the start of the small boats crisis
Illegal immigrants continue to flow into England across the calm waters of the Channel. The latest data from the Home Office…
Japan just can’t find the staff
‘Kanko kankai’ (tourism pollution) is the latest buzz phrase here in Japan as the double-edged samurai sword of the visitor…
How Israel is clearing Hamas out of Rafah
Rafah, Gaza The heat, the sand, the soldiers. I’m in Rafah, a war zone unlike any other. As a former…
Putin takes revenge for the Kursk attack with glide bombs
In the sprawling and unlovely village of Billopilya, only five miles from Ukraine’s border with Russia, when death comes, it…
Biden bids a late-night farewell to the DNC
Chicago Monday night at the Democratic National Convention served as a protracted thank you and farewell to President Joe Biden…
The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon is a DC treasure
The political pyrotechnics in Washington this summer have so blinding as to blot out everything else happening in the national…
Kamala’s DNC team is saying the quiet part loud
From the moment Kamala Harris ascended to the status of 2024’s bringer of joy, the vice president has navigated a…
Will Russell Findlay be a ‘fighter’?
Russell Findlay has launched his bid to be the next Scottish Tory leader as the party descends into a civil…
Why is Lukashenko pushing for an end to the Ukraine war?
Could Belarus’s Aleksandr Lukashenko be the key to ending the Ukraine conflict? In a surprising intervention over the weekend, the…
Boris’s memoir to drop during Tory leadership battle
Boris Johnson is back. The ex-prime minister is preparing to grace the nation with his musings as the launch date…
Does breakdancer Raygun deserve all the hate?
How annoying must it be to win an Olympic title but be totally eclipsed by a competitor who failed to…
Netanyahu won’t hand Hamas an easy victory
The latest information seeping out from the negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza suggest that agreement between…
The toxicity of two-tier justice
One of the worst things about prison is the rules. Before I was sentenced I’d imagined jail as a rigid,…
