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Is faith-based opposition to gay marriage a ‘protected characteristic’?

21 February 2023 7:56 am

Kate Forbes’s run for First Minister may be short-lived but it will certainly be interesting. Her challenge: she’s a member…

Kate Forbes: I’m against gay marriage and self-ID

21 February 2023 5:57 am

It’s day one of Kate Forbes’ bid to be First Minister and she is certainly making headlines. The Finance Minister…

Are we really seeing a ‘great resignation’?

21 February 2023 3:52 am

Do over-fifties need to get back off the golf course and into work? That’s the narrative that ministers have been…

Saudi Arabia must not bring Syria’s Assad in from the cold

21 February 2023 3:23 am

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has said the quiet part out loud when it comes to his country’s attitude towards Syria. Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud told…

Joe Biden’s long history in Ukraine

21 February 2023 2:08 am

It was only a matter of time before Joe Biden made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev. In the year since…

How bitcoin bounced back after FTX

21 February 2023 1:44 am

One of the major exchanges has gone spectacularly bust. Billions of investor’s money has been lost. There have been allegations…

Prince Andrew will never learn his lesson

20 February 2023 11:45 pm

As the Princess of Wales draws plaudits for appearing at last night’s BAFTA awards in a subtly reused Alexander McQueen…

Macron is right about the danger of Russia after Putin

20 February 2023 11:41 pm

France’s President Macron has raised hackles time and again with his interventions on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. For all his…

Sunak is taking a gamble on the Protocol

20 February 2023 9:06 pm

Westminster is back to the Brexit wars this week. Once again, a Conservative leader is trying to finalise a deal…

The senseless re-editing of Roald Dahl

20 February 2023 8:09 pm

Roald Dahl was, in many respects, a horrible man. He was a narcissist, a bully, a liar, an anti-Semite, a…

China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine

20 February 2023 5:00 pm

At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in…

Boris Johnson fires a warning shot to Sunak

19 February 2023 10:28 pm

Rishi Sunak is once again facing an unhelpful intervention from one of his predecessors. As the Prime Minister attempts to…

The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism

19 February 2023 9:57 pm

The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity…

Scottish schools have become places of indoctrination

19 February 2023 9:35 pm

Nicola Sturgeon may be on her way out – but after 16 years of SNP rule, Scottish schools are still…

The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster

19 February 2023 9:33 pm

On a cold wet day in January 1961, Lt Jack ReVelle climbed out of a muddy hole in the ground, holding…

China is trying to strangle the world’s solar panel industry

19 February 2023 8:30 pm

China is moving to consolidate and exploit its position as world leader in solar power technologies, by restricting the export…

Was Jean Raspail racist?

19 February 2023 6:30 pm

Fifty years ago, one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century was published. Camp of the Saints…

The West shouldn’t underestimate Russia in Ukraine

19 February 2023 5:30 pm

Russia’s winter offensive appears to have begun with a decidedly underwhelming series of operations in the Donbas. So far results…

Ron DeSantis is scarier than Trump, says Vanity Fair

18 February 2023 10:00 pm

Cockburn has noticed a trend over at Vanity Fair, that once-esteemed publication. They write about Ron DeSantis, a lot. Obsessively,…

Oxford students should resist these medieval trigger warnings

18 February 2023 8:46 pm

In 1408, the Archbishop of Canterbury convened a synod in Oxford to prohibit the reading of John Wycliffe’s English translation of the…

Nicola Sturgeon’s disastrous economic legacy

18 February 2023 7:30 pm

When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her economic legacy, what will she feel most proud of: the big industrial plants…

JK Rowling is no transphobe – and I should know

18 February 2023 6:30 pm

Most authors would undoubtedly be satisfied with the legacy of Harry Potter: hundreds of millions of books sold, a film…

Why I’m glad to see the back of Nicola Sturgeon

18 February 2023 5:30 pm

I see Scotland as the brain of the UK, with Wales as the soul and Northern Ireland as the heart.…

Joe Biden might be the White House’s best communicator

18 February 2023 3:17 pm

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn’t mince words this week when defending her boss. When asked by a reporter…

Kamala Harris should run for Senate again in California

18 February 2023 4:35 am

Here’s an idea that won’t happen but should: if Kamala Harris really wants to reset her political future — and…