World
Ignore the climate doomsters: we should celebrate our 8 billion population
It almost certainly wasn’t Vinice Mabansag, the baby born in the Philippines last Tuesday and picked out by the UN…
Macron’s humiliating climbdown over Aukus
Guess who turned up in Bangkok this week at the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting? The forum, which includes the…
What will be the legacy of the Qatar World Cup?
In the glitzy Fifa museum, in squeaky-clean downtown Zurich, there is a new exhibition which sums up the upbeat, inclusive…
When America makes Orwell look like an amateur
Under today’s gathering dark clouds, a reread of Nineteen Eighty-Four shows how the otherwise prescient George Orwell was wrong to…
In defense of Twitter
Twitter probably isn’t going anywhere. Major platforms don’t just vanish, after all. If we’re not still posting in 2023, then…
Left-wing Twitter goes full Apocalypse Now
In the film Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard comes upon a remote outpost defending a bridge. Hoping to confer…
Why Biden has given MBS immunity over the Khashoggi killing
For US President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia is the problem that never goes away. First came his decision to refrain from slapping…
Why is Eventbrite censoring feminists?
I could not have been more delighted when the group Women’s Place UK (WPUK) asked me to chair an online…
Why Macron won’t criticise the Qatar World Cup
France has adopted a different approach to the World Cup in Qatar than most of its European rivals. While the…
Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024?
Donald Trump has been running for president for at least a decade. His campaign did not start on June 16,…
A very demoralizing trip to Barnes & Noble
America is enduring a mental health crisis, and you need go no farther than your local Barnes & Noble bookstore…
The Republican march on Rome
Perhaps the greatest defeat the Roman Republic ever suffered was at the hands of Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae…
Britain is no country for young men
If I had to give one piece of advice to Britons under 30 it would be this: go. Leave. Skedaddle.…
Britain needs its missing workers back
Amid all the economic gloom at the moment, the unemployment figure is one bright spot. It is just 3.6 per…
The UK is getting caught in an austerity trap
The teenagers are once again in charge of UK fiscal policy. The teenagers are not the Chancellor and his team,…
The choice between higher immigration and even higher taxes
‘Only the higher-than-expected numbers of migrants coming to the UK under the post-Brexit migration regime adds materially to prospects for…
Cambridge University is blind to reality in the gender debate
Newnham College, Cambridge, was once a bastion of feminist activism. No longer. This summer my curiosity was drawn to two…
Is Iran going to execute its protestors?
Are protestors in Iran going to be sentenced to death? That grim question will be on the mind of many…
The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump
If you live in the world inhabited by Donald Trump’s strongest supporters, you’ve seen the man perform all sorts of…
Why the counting in Arizona is taking so long
“What’s the problem with Arizona?” I’ve been asked this question countless times in the past week, as I was after Election…
Jeremy Hunt is wrong about ‘British compassion’
Delivering his Autumn Statement on Thursday, Jeremy Hunt specified two ‘great national’ qualities: genius and ‘British compassion’. The Chancellor’s announcements…
Nancy Pelosi won’t go away
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that in the wake of Republicans taking the House, she’s doing exactly what the…
Labour can’t believe they are heading for victory
Last night, Labour politicians wondered how to respond to the challenges the Chancellor was sending their way. Do you accept…
How ballot harvesting could save elections
“Ballot harvesting.” To some, it’s a creepy term, conjuring images of hulking party machines plowing through passive fields of citizens,…
Murdoch stumps up for Boris’s Montana meeting
Boris Johnson hasn’t always enjoyed the best relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s titles, having once been sacked as a Times trainee…
