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The BBC’s nightmare hat-trick of blunders
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC press office has had a nightmare 24 hours, with not one but three…
Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data
Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via…
Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day
Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot…
GOP seeks answers from NBA over Chinese soft power display
House and Senate Republicans, along with a basketball star, are demanding answers from the NBA about its financial relationship with…
Ukraine can sympathise with Georgia’s pro-EU movement
Protests that broke out in Tbilisi against adopting a controversial Russian-style law have turned into a pro-European movement with political…
Will Sunak’s charm offensive with Macron yield results?
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron held a press conference together at the Élysée Palace today to mark their new deal…
Why Britain isn’t ready to rejoin the EU – yet
Is Brexit starting to unfold? Some Remain supporters think so. Poor economic performance, supply chain issues, and our inability as…
How Russia is dodging sanctions
They might not be the quick knock-out blow their champions misleadingly claimed they’d be, but sanctions are having a serious…
The problem with Boris’s honours list
There are plenty of Boris Johnson hangovers to give Rishi Sunak a headache these days. The privileges committee investigation into…
Ministers can’t blame Putin for the disaster that is HS2
And I thought the SNP were destined to win the award for this year’s most pathetic excuse – after Scottish…
GDP grows by 0.3% – but the UK economy remains stagnant
This morning’s release from the Office for National Statistics shows the UK economy grew by 0.3 per cent in January – an…
Can Macron get through the day without insulting the Brits?
The editorial in today’s Le Figaro heralds the dawn of a 21st century Entente Cordiale and the newspaper carries an interview…
Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on
“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…
Gary Lineker doubles down on his Tory attacks
No red card for Gary Lineker, it seems. The Sun reports this afternoon that the outspoken TV presenter is staying…
The rationale for Putin’s latest attack on Ukraine
It has long been suspected that Russia was going to mount a renewed military offensive in Ukraine as spring approached.…
Is Congress finally getting serious about investigating Covid’s origins?
Wednesday’s hearing on the origin of Covid-19 by the select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic was long overdue. It has…
What Sunak needs from Macron
Is a new bromance about to blossom? That’s the hope in government when Rishi Sunak meets Emmanuel Macron in Paris…
Why is Whitehall intent on burying the Covid lab leak theory?
Why does our government have so much trouble criticising China? It doesn’t seem to have had a problem calling out Vladimir…
Do we still need the Women’s Prize for Fiction?
Nine debut books were among the 16 novels to make the cut in this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction long…
Harry and Meghan want it both ways with royal titles
For all of Harry and Meghan’s near-constant talk about needing their privacy, it is an unfortunate running theme that their…
The GOP’s new debt ceiling fusionism
Congressional Republicans are gearing up for their four millionth attempt to rein in government spending, and surely this time will…
Why South Africa is cozying up to Russia and China
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine opened the most dramatic divide between East and West since the Cold War. Most of…
Thousands protest against ‘Russian-style’ laws in Georgia
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi for a second day. Riot police have used…
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leftward turn
In the ’80s and early ’90s, there was perhaps no greater cinematic hate figure for liberals than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Since…
Mexico has become a failed narco-state
Over the past week, a security policy conversation that’s been taking place behind the scenes has emerged into the open.…
