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Scotland’s ‘Stop Trump’ movement is not what it was
Donald Trump touches down in Scotland today on what is ostensibly a private visit to open an 18-hole golf course…
France’s decision to recognise Palestine is a mistake
Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognise Palestinian statehood. The French president will make his historic proclamation, the first…
Can Ukraine forgive president Zelensky?
For six years in office, Volodymyr Zelensky never experienced the raging crowd beneath his window. But Ukraine’s wartime president grew…
Is Bella Sankey sorry for calling the police on me?
The grotesque halfwit who tried to have me prosecuted for ‘incitement’ was on Newsnight on Wednesday night, spouting the usual…
Why one US diplomat thinks Ireland has ‘fallen into a vat of Guinness’
US diplomat Mike Huckabee was dead right to question whether Ireland had ‘fallen into a vat of Guinness.’ Huckabee, the…
Teachers deserve their long summer holidays
What’s the best thing about teaching? July and August! Or so the old joke goes. The long school holidays are…
Just how high did the Russiagate farce originate?
Tulsi Gabbard’s declassification of documents that support the view that the intelligence community engaged in a deliberate conspiracy to target the…
Behold, the First Lady Melania Trump Opera House
During a frantic Tuesday news cycle – where President Trump accused President Obama of high treason and Congress planned to recess…
RIP Hulk Hogan, the omnipresent Eighties icon
Hulk Hogan, who died today at 71, will be sorely missed. But in July 1996, arguably the most famous and…
The origin of the Thailand-Cambodia conflict
A border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia which goes back more than a century has once again erupted in fatal…
Labour must confront the uncomfortable causes of immigration protests
That sound you hear is the penny finally dropping in Downing Street. Having spent the year since the horrific post-Southport…
Trump is in a good mood. What’s up?
The President is usually set on “winning,” but he has settled this week for a draw. Columbia University and the…
Trump gives the government to the machines
Artificial intelligence is the future, we’re often told. But it can also prove to be a constant source of confusion…
The doctor will kill you now
It’s the stuff of nightmares. You wake up on a cold metal table, fully conscious but unable to move or…
Britain shouldn’t bow to the ICJ
The official cost of the deal to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius – a country which never owned the…
Step aside Zohran, Eric Adams can make things cheap too!
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has declared that in his New York City, buses will be free, childcare will be…
Corbyn and Sultana botch their party launch. Again
After a rather botched party launch attempt in which Zarah Sultana appeared to force Jeremy Corbyn into letting her co-lead…
The UK and India sign their trade deal – at last
The UK has finally signed a free-trade deal with India after three-and-a-half years of negotiation. The agreement will open up…
BBC apologises to Rupert Lowe over Rape Gang Inquiry report
Another day, another drama over at the Beeb. The BBC has apologised to ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe and his Rape…
Watch: Green party leader struggles to say he likes rival
All is not well in the Green party. Adrian Ramsay is standing for re-election in the party’s leadership contest this…
The Epping migrant delusion
The origin of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes is difficult to pin down: could it be 19th century Denmark…
James O’Brien’s apology isn’t enough
When the story of how the British media responded to the October 7 atrocities is told, there will be a…
Why are the Macrons bothering to sue Candace Owens?
What’s the best novel you’ve read all summer? For Cockburn it’s the more than 200-page complaint that Emmanuel Macron and…
How I wrote the newest Sherlock Holmes novel
I don’t think anyone has ever come up with a word to describe an authorized author. It’s not quite a…
Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping
When it comes to protests against immigration and asylum hotels, accusations of two-tier policing are never far away. This week…
