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Matt Hancock and the politics of fear
‘When do we deploy the variant’, asks Matt Hancock after talking of the need to ‘frighten the pants off everyone…
Did China influence the Canadian elections for Trudeau?
It’s been a sticky couple of weeks for Canada’s natural governing party, as the Liberals like to call themselves. Anonymous…
Sunak’s plan to stop the boats
Another weekend, another set of stories on the chances of a Boris Johnson return. Allies of the former prime minister…
Euthanasia has become a backdoor to capital punishment in Belgium
Those who back assisted dying/euthanasia/assisted suicide – and no doubt Prue Leith on her nationwide tour will be returning to her…
What happens when a state fails
Beirut, Lebanon ‘You can still smell it in the wind,’ says Maria. She points out from the neon-lit bar along…
Should Hungary be punished for its stance on Ukraine?
After months of delay, the Hungarian parliament finally started the process of approving Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership this week.…
Who’s afraid of organoid intelligence?
For fans of bioethical nightmares, it’s been a real stonker of a month. First, we had the suggestion that we use comatose…
Germany’s folly: Berlin has miscalculated on Russia and China
The notion that closer trade connections with the West will necessarily set less enlightened nations on a course toward prosperity…
Hancock wanted to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant and ‘frighten the pants off everyone’
Day 5 of the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files and the most startling stories yet. Here’s what’s new: Matt Hancock asked when…
Prince Harry and Gabor Maté are a match made in heaven
In the eighteenth century, the well-to-do and prurient enjoyed visiting London’s most notorious hospital, Bedlam, to gaze at its patients.…
Hancock and Gove’s cringeworthy Covid love-in
Last night it seemed as if the Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages released by the Telegraph couldn’t get any worse, after…
Is Macron really saying the France-Afrique is finished?
On 2 March in Gabon, West Africa, President Macron declared that ‘the days of France-Afrique are over’. Since the early nineteenth century the…
The sinister rise of drag shows for children
The hyper-sexualisation of children’s shows in the name of ‘diversity and inclusion’ continues to grip the United Kingdom. The latest…
Our Russian sanctions are only helping Vladimir Putin
‘I don’t see a single beneficiary of this crazy war’, wrote the self-made Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov on his Instagram…
The spy movie that set Putin on the path to the KGB
Leningrad, summer 1968. Volodya is 15-year-old. With his mates, he goes to the cinema to catch The Shield and the…
Seven things we learned from the juiciest lockdown files yet
Day four of the lockdown files and it’s the juiciest so far. Here’s what the Telegraph released last night: 1. Matt Hancock thought…
How we forgot about Pol Pot
When I was a small boy, I had a favourite book: The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton. Given that my…
What Belarus gets out of its friendship with China
What has Alexander Lukashenko been up to in China? The purpose of the Belarusian President’s three-day visit, according to state…
Business schools are dating apps for the super-rich
“D’you know what the acronym MBA stands for?” The twenty-seven-year-old who asked me this had a deep tan and fluorescent…
San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
We live in the Golden Age of Revision. Not everyone has noticed, so let me mention some of the highlights…
Matt Hancock’s Covid social media frenzy
Another day, another painful set of WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock. Yet again the Daily Telegraph have released another batch…
The green movement faces a painful confrontation with reality
Environmentalism is the ruling ideology of our times. Forget neoliberalism. That peaked around 2000 and was definitively dethroned by the…
Will the last company to leave the City please turn out the lights?
It would have been bad enough if just one major British company had decided to list its shares in New…
The lack of trust in Joe Biden’s government is dangerous
The recent conclusion by the Department of Energy that Covid likely originated in a Wuhan lab is only the latest…
The problem with the BBC’s Manchester bombing coverage
The BBC have reacted to the Manchester Arena bombing, carried out by an Islamist maniac, by providing us with a…
