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The unhinged environmentalism of Al Gore
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have…
Are the Tories serious about levelling up?
How serious are the Conservatives about levelling up? Their MPs have reportedly been told not to use the phrase in their…
Jacinda Ardern’s tattered legacy
Wellington, New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be stepping down as the prime minister of New Zealand, saying…
The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
Why Jacinda Ardern is stepping down
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will stand down on February 7. In an announcement in Wellington, choking back tears,…
Twilight of the Democrats’ gerontocracy
As President Biden plans to launch his reelection campaign, he is whistling past a graveyard of recently discarded Democratic Party…
Among Dubai’s weary migrant workers
The E100 bus is not somewhere you will find an Emirati. Departing about every thirty minutes from 4 a.m. onward…
The weirdest stuff you can get at the Twitter auction
Elon Musk’s Twitter is holding a massive auction to sell its surplus office assets — and it is quite an…
Germany has no excuse for not sending tanks to Ukraine
When a man is in a hole, he is best advised to stop digging. When a German chancellor is in…
Can I now free the nipple on Instagram and Facebook?
It’s a funny old world. Cockburn noticed today that Facebook and Instagram have been told to overhaul their longstanding ban…
PMQs gets worse every week
Gruesome rhetoric at PMQs. The horror began with Sir Keir Starmer revealing that he can tell the time. ‘It’s three…
So much for Biden’s ‘return to normalcy’
It was supposed to be so different. Sturdy old Scranton Joe Biden at the helm. Honesty, decency, unity. What a…
Is it time to replace Scotland’s sporting anthem?
‘Flower of Scotland’ is the unofficial national anthem north of the border but soon enough we may never hear its…
Is the Trussite Tory ‘growth group’ a threat to Rishi Sunak?
Tory MPs gathered last night for the first meeting of a new growth caucus. Under the working title ‘Conservative Growth…
Is Putin about to gamble on a second mobilisation wave?
Is Vladimir Putin finally about to announce a second mobilisation wave? Ukraine has been warning for weeks that up to half-a-million…
Is sharing cake in the office really like passive smoking?
‘If nobody brought in cakes into the office, I would not eat cakes in the day, but because people do…
Ukraine’s interior minister dies in helicopter crash
Denis Monastyrsky, Ukraine’s interior minister was amongst 15 people killed in a helicopter crash in the outskirts of Kyiv this…
Food price inflation hits 16.8 per cent
Oil prices are down, wholesale gas prices are down, so why isn’t inflation falling a lot faster than it is?…
Macron commits to nuclear energy while Britain dithers
The French are falling back in love with nuclear energy, and so is their president. In 2019, only 34 per…
Here’s how extreme Democrats have gone on abortion
A great deal of the conversation about abortion in America is based on lies about who occupies the more extreme…
A deluge of deviants in Davos?
Sex workers take Switzerland! As the World Economic Forum gets underway in Davos, it’s not just politicians and business leaders…
Are we being too downbeat about Britain’s economy?
Economic optimism is in short supply these days – but has pessimism about the UK’s economy been overegged by the…
Truss and Kwarteng start their own companies
It’s a busy time for ex-Prime Ministers. Theresa May has been totting up her thousands in speaking fees while Boris…
Why Sweden and Finland still haven’t joined NATO
Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO last May, overturning their long-standing policies of neutrality. If their membership goes…
Scotland’s gender bill mess was made in Westminster
Nicola Sturgeon is angry. The UK government has confirmed it will block her party’s controversial gender Bill, which removes key…
