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Biden is right: China’s Xi is a ‘dictator’
Just as a stopped clock shows the correct time twice a day, so president Joe Biden, amidst the plethora of…
The Kremlin is still afraid of Alexei Navalny
As Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is once again in court, facing charges that could extend his time in prison…
On Fox, Trump admits: this terrible idea was his own
In my line of sight from my office, beside stacks of books and magazines, between unplugged lamps and cigar boxes,…
Is this the end of the road for Meghan?
Has there ever been a more brutally effective piece of social satire than the South Park episode that mocked Harry and Meghan?…
Mark Zuckerberg won’t kill Twitter
Is Mark Zuckerberg losing his touch? Having just thrown tens of billions at his weird virtual-reality ‘metaverse’, only to see…
Neither party is fully trusted on the economy
Jeremy Hunt was bombarded by MPs worried about the ‘mortgage timebomb’ when he took Treasury questions in the Commons today.…
Britain ‘ready to assist’ in search for missing submarine
Britain is ‘ready to provide assistance’ to the rescuers searching for Titan, the submarine which lost contact while on an…
Why civics test scores are falling in American schools
Twenty years ago, one of the most popular bits on late-night television was “Jaywalking,” where Tonight Show host Jay Leno quizzed passersby…
The stupidity of the Oscars’ diversity quotas
Is anyone actually watching the Oscars anymore? Until ‘The Incident’ between Messrs Smith and Rock last year the direction of…
Keir Starmer is dangerously naive about the army
Keir Starmer has vowed to create a ‘squaddies tsar’ if he wins the election. This ‘Armed Forces Commissioner’ would represent…
Is Macron having a Meloni makeover?
Emmanuel Macron never does anything by chance, so why did he allow himself to be filmed downing a beer in…
Harry and Meghan may still have a bright podcasting future
After Spotify sacked/let go/‘mutually agreed to part ways’ with, in the words of one of its executives, those ‘f-ing grifters’…
Parliament votes to ban Boris
MPs have just voted 354 to 7 in favour of the Privileges Committee report’s finding that Boris Johnson deliberately misled…
The Tories can’t escape partygate
Is partygate all in the past? That’s what Rishi Sunak is hoping. He sent Penny Mordaunt to the Commons this…
In praise of Leo Varadkar
The number of abortions taking place in Ireland is more than 8,000 a year, up from the memorable figure of…
Why Xi Jinping finally agreed to meet Antony Blinken
When Antony Blinken got on the plane to Beijing two days ago, the US Secretary of State didn’t even know…
Keir Starmer is clueless about energy security
It will create lots of well-paid jobs, especially in Scotland. It will reduce our electricity bills. And it will make…
Why Japan doesn’t do Pride
Want to avoid Pride month? Bit tired of the, almost literally, in your face, carnival of uninhibited sexual freedom we…
Russia’s sexual health crisis just got militarised
As Ukraine pushes forward its long-anticipated counteroffensive, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu seems more concerned with reeling in his institutional rivals, not…
Rishi Sunak is no transphobe
Does a woman have a penis? Of course not. Until recently, that basic biological fact was accepted by almost everyone.…
The idiotic campaign against Elizabeth Gilbert
At the end of the 1920s, Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Im Westen nichts Neues appeared in English as All Quiet…
John F. Kennedy’s trip worth remembering
Sloppy Joe Biden may face strong political headwinds with just seven months to go before the first presidential primary, but at least he’s…
Watch: Partygate video threatens to derail Johnson honours’ list
Will Partygate ever be over? Today’s front page of the Sunday Mirror splashes on leaked footage of Shaun Bailey’s mayoral campaign team…
Levi Bellfield must never be allowed to marry – and I should know
There is a rare outbreak of unanimity on social media. Save a few lawyers who – correctly – point out…
Tears, tangles and tremendous views in Cape Town
Thirty feet underwater, somewhere on the False Bay coast near Simon’s Town in the Western Cape, South Africa. I’m getting…
