France’s choice between bad and terrible
Le Pen closes on Macron
Hungarians stick with Vic
Hated by the Left , Orban thrives
Vlad’s twitchy generals
Putin’s invasion is not going to plan
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Putin’s brutal imperialism Putin signalled early during his rule his fury that Moscow’s former empire had slipped the leash. After…
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Putin’s poker game If the latest warnings of a Russian invasion of Ukraine prove right, you’ll be reading this as…
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Testing times for the second Covid Christmas Those like me inclined to whinge about Europe’s reaction to Covid are regularly…
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Tories all at sea on boats On hearing France’s interior minister, Gérald Darmanin, on why so many would-be migrants cross…
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The green zealot in number 10 After opening the Glasgow eco-jamboree, Boris Johnson did something which once would have been…
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Merkel’s woeful legacy How ironic but unsurprising that Angela Merkel, for sixteen years leader of her country’s once-conservative Christian Democrats,…
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App-artheid europe Here’s an interesting thought. Imagine Australia’s state premiers were put in charge of Europe. How would our politicians…
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The lost decade Australia should buy or lease a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines to replace the calamitous Collins Class boats…
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Travels with my App How the Covid tables have turned. In the pandemic’s initial stages, the Anglo world congratulated…
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Europe’s rightward drift Two of the great issues which animated the woke EU establishment until recently were hatred of Donald…
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Woke juggernaut gets the wobbles It often feels as if the woke Left is omnipotent, razing all before it as…
‘Crackpot’ lab leak theory suddenly ‘feasible’
What a difference a year makes. Sir Richard Dearlove, the MI6 chief (‘C’) from 1999 to 2004, was first interviewed on the UK’s excellent Planet Normal podcast almost exactly a year ago. His…
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Reds under the downing street beds Two unorthodox senior advisors to Number 10 deserve attention. The first and most prominent…
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Boris Johnson’s eco-road to ruin The results of Scotland’s elections next week will dominate British politics for the foreseeable future.…
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Europe’s political cross-dressers A good Tony Abbott story is that early during his time as an MP, he did a…
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Boris & the nightmare of Lady MacStalin After Alex Salmond, Scotland’s former first minister, claimed his successor Nicola Sturgeon had…
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Ursula Fond o’ Lyin’ Odd policy choices continue to bedevil Boris Johnson’s government. Almost a year after Australia started putting…
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Brexit Boost for Boris Having won a thumping majority a year ago, Boris Johnson keeps squandering the early, widespread good…
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Europe’s woke Iron Curtain Who could have predicted that the gulf between Europe’s west and east would still be there…
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Lonely Goatherd immunity While Australia has spent much of 2020 establishing Iron Curtain border regimes, Europe’s bewildering and ever-changing internal…
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Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
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Ducking Peking ASoviet-era joke had someone visiting the part of the commu- nist bureaucracy which issued permission to move your…
