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Am I allowed to make fun of women’s football?

12 August 2023 9:00 am

I’m loath to write about the current Fifa World Cup because criticising women’s football is textbook ‘misogyny’ – at least,…

Violent extremists won’t spoil Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland

11 April 2023 11:10 pm

What can violent extremists do to wreck Joe Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland? The answer is precious little. The…

Ukraine needs more than tanks

16 January 2023 12:57 am

What weapons will Ukraine get next? It’s a crucial question that matters perhaps more than anything else for understanding how…

What Washington was like during the Cuban Missile Crisis (2002)

12 October 2022 7:00 pm

On 27 October 1962, US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stepped out of crisis meetings and looked up at the sky.…

Did Russia sabotage its own pipelines?

28 September 2022 6:15 am

It almost seems worthy of the opening scene in a Bond film. Vital Russian gas pipelines running beneath the Baltic Sea close…

Why is The New York Times so obsessed with loathing Britain?

5 August 2022 12:05 am

They’ve done it again in the grey building on 826 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY, USA. They – the…

Remembering Gore Vidal

31 July 2022 10:00 pm

Fourteen years ago, my then boss, Matt d’Ancona sent me off to interview Gore Vidal. I’ll always be grateful to…

End of quote. Repeat the line. Joe Biden can’t go on

12 July 2022 6:45 pm

How much longer can the global disaster that is Joe Biden’s presidency go on? Surely there comes a point when…

The Texas school shooting won’t change a thing

25 May 2022 8:20 pm

Joe Biden gave one of his more eloquent speeches yesterday in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school…

Why progressives can't tolerate Christians

10 May 2022 8:26 pm

For decades, Christians have talked about feeling persecuted in advanced secular and liberal democracies. They’ve often sounded a bit hysterical.…

The Biden Bust is here

29 April 2022 1:25 am

A wave of government spending would reboot the economy. Fairer taxes would pay for restored infrastructure. Skills would be improved,…

Will Hunter Biden finally bring down his father?

12 April 2022 7:45 pm

It was meant to be a kumbaya moment for the Democrats. Barack Obama, the still revered 44th President, would make…

Is Biden trying to crash the economy?

28 March 2022 11:15 pm

A war is raging in Ukraine. Inflation has risen to a 30-year high and may have started to spiral out…

How the Ukraine crisis ends

22 February 2022 1:15 am

Vladimir Putin does not think in the way the West does. Of course sanctions will hurt. But so what? He…

No one should celebrate the decline of America

27 January 2022 10:22 pm

Where is America? Like an old friend who hasn’t been in touch for years, you wonder if its silence is…

Will Trump's pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?

29 December 2021 2:55 am

Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…

Biden is losing America

29 November 2021 11:10 pm

Plummeting polls are sending a clear message to the Biden administration, but the President is deaf, dumb and blind to…

Biden isn't FDR

15 November 2021 9:40 am

With Biden sliding to 38 per cent approval in the polls, it’s finally time for everyone to stop calling him…

Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure

19 October 2021 8:18 am

My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…

The rise and rise of hate hoaxing

3 October 2021 3:00 pm

Last week, some racist graffiti was found at Parkway North and Parkway Central schools in the Midwest American state of…

No, America couldn’t have been Canada

29 September 2021 4:56 am

What if William Howe, the dithering British commander, hadn’t let the American army escape in the Battle of Long Island…

Will Italy's Euro win lead to a baby boom?

14 July 2021 8:17 am

Could Italy’s triumph on Sunday result not just in a trophy for the azzuri, but a baby boom for a…

A minimum corporation tax is nothing to celebrate

13 July 2021 8:05 am

So is this what the new era of global co-operation looks like? The EU has agreed to delay the introduction…

The increasing cruelty of the North Korean regime

12 June 2021 4:15 pm

On a humid summer’s day in Singapore three years ago today, Donald Trump became the first incumbent US president to…

Biden proves that Trump was a true British ally

11 June 2021 8:11 am

Now that Joe Biden has landed, many Brits may now be realising what a stalwart friend you had in Trump. Within minutes…