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Trump has bought Milei some time
As he stared up from the bottom of an increasingly deep economic hole, Javier Milei has been offered a ladder…
The decline of the UN
As the world’s leaders and foreign ministers meet in New York for the UN General Assembly this week, recognition of…
Trump takes a pass on brokering peace in Ukraine
Has Donald Trump just announced the most consequential foreign policy reversal of his presidency? If so, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky…
Ed Davey is the perfect Lib Dem leader
Ed Davey’s speech at the Lib Dem conference began with a darkened stage on which you could just about make…
Trump admonishes the United Nations
Was there a plot against President Trump at the United Nations? Upon his arrival, the escalator apparently stopped working. Next…
Trump: Khan wants to put London under sharia law
Donald Trump’s trip to the UK has finished and it appears his love-in with London has ended too. In a…
Ed Davey savages Nigel Farage in his Lib Dem conference speech
Liberal Democrats have been looking forward all summer to Sir Ed Davey’s party conference speech. For months, Nigel Farage’s Cheshire…
Holyrood’s bizarre seagull obsession
After weeks of suspense, the big day has finally arrived. The Scottish government has arranged a meeting in Inverness with…
The problem with Jess’s Rule
NHS England has today introduced Jess’s Rule, asking doctors to take a ‘three strikes and rethink approach’. The rule is…
Britain’s inflation woes aren’t going away
The OECD expects the UK economy to outperform the eurozone and grow by 1.4 per cent over the year. But…
Duchess of York’s Epstein email spurred by ‘chilling’ call
Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, has come under scrutiny this week after an…
Why Trump shouldn’t bail out Milei
At the OECD, the IMF, and at Davos, there will probably be a few wry smiles, and a sense of…
The remedy for America’s spiritual decline
It’s often noted that American society is becoming ever more politicized and polarized. Those who once imagined themselves uninterested in…
Tyler Robinson is not an ambassador of the American left
The Charlie Kirk assassination has triggered a spate of dueling death counts. The usual media suspects on both sides of…
French town halls are weaponising the Palestinian flag
As Emmanuel Macron took to the global stage to recognise Palestine at the UN, over 80 defiant left-wing mayors back…
How does the American right move on?
At the time, it was audacious. Guy Benson, now a commentator for Fox News and Townhall, recalls being approached by…
Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity
“Clarifying.” It seems almost obscene to say that the murders of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk were “clarifying.” But the…
Streeting: ignore Trump’s autism claims
To the US, where President Donald Trump has suggested his administration has ‘found an answer to autism’. On Monday, Trump…
The blurred lines between politics and common morality
Some 238 years ago Thomas Jefferson wrote that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with…
I’m done with default illiberalism
It took me far too long to reach the point where I could vote for Donald Trump confidently. I’d been…
A lack of national identity has killed off the Great American Novel
Is there hope for literature in America this century? The forecast looks grim. One walk through the literary fiction section…
Is Donald Trump right to link autism with paracetamol?
Donald Trump’s apparent suggestion that people could protect themselves against Covid by injecting themselves with bleach marked a low point…
The pace is quickening in DC
September in DC is the real new year. The heat hasn’t broken, but the air feels heavier. Congress regroups, summer…
Thoughts on moving houses
“A house for sale is not a home,” says Wendell Berry, which is perhaps why we have delayed putting our…
Is Charlie Kirk a Christian martyr?
This feels deeply inappropriate, I thought, as I started watching Erika Kirk’s hagiographic eulogy. I am watching a grieving widow…
