Boris was never Trump
The urge to compare Boris Johnson to Donald Trump was always irresistible. It has been fun, too. Both men are colourful…
The Tories will miss Boris now he’s gone
Boris Johnson was often talked about as the luckiest politician on earth — and in a sense he was. Outrageous…
Who says Boris has to go?
As the cameras burped and clicked, as an aggravated nation watched, Boris Johnson announced that he was giving up. ‘Let…
AOC’s Roe v. Wade grandstanding has gone too far
If you’ve bothered to actually read the Supreme Court’s opinion on Roe v. Wade – rather than the endless social…
The problem with Billie Eilish’s Roe v. Wade intervention
The words ‘dark day’ went viral yesterday — in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in…
The truth about the Roe v. Wade abortion ‘ban’
You wait decades for landmark reforms in America and then, like culture-war buses, two come along at once. Earlier this…
Leaderless
Voters are increasingly unsure where to turn
The Capitol riot hearings are farcically partisan
Let’s get the boringly obvious out of the way. What happened in Washington on 6 January, 2021 was bad. Very…
Will Joe Biden be impeached?
Before inflation began to eat the American economy alive, impeachflation had already undermined the office of the presidency. Donald Trump…
The Texas school shooting won’t change a thing
Joe Biden gave one of his more eloquent speeches yesterday in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school…
What is Black Lives Matter?
It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another…
Is the MAGA saga coming to an end?
Did the Trump movement get a bloody nose in last night’s Republican primaries? It’s a story that most of the…
Why progressives can’t tolerate Christians
For decades, Christians have talked about feeling persecuted in advanced secular and liberal democracies. They’ve often sounded a bit hysterical.…
JD Vance and America’s new right
JD Vance, the poor boy turned US Marine turned best-selling author turned venture capitalist turned politician, won the Senate Republican…
The Supreme Court’s abortion bombshell
Abortion is a nuclear bomb of an issue, planted at the core of American liberalism. And it just went off.…
Taking the Mickey
How Disney fell foul of Florida’s governor
Apres Macron, the radical left?
Bof! That useful French word – an older and slightly less irritating version of the American-English ‘meh’ – is how…
Will Hunter Biden finally bring down his father?
It was meant to be a kumbaya moment for the Democrats. Barack Obama, the still revered 44th President, would make…
Like him or loathe him, Macron is Europe’s driving force
If you want to know why Marine Le Pen almost certainly won’t win the French presidency on 24 April, listen…
The Ukrainian connection
Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort — but can we trust him?
Could Biden gaffe us into world war three?
‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…
A dicey business
When I was 14 my father took me to a bookmaker’s and encouraged me to place a bet. He wanted…
Why was the Hunter Biden laptop story covered up?
It’s now a familiar pattern – a sensational news story is dismissed by serious journalists as bogus right-wing agitprop. You’d…
The myopic focus on racism at the Polish-Ukrainian border
There are already a hell of a lot of foreign correspondents and human-rights workers at the Ukrainian-Polish border – an…
Diary
Lviv, Ukraine On the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, near a place called Shehyni where the refugee crisis…
