World
The witch trial of Amber Heard
For the first few weeks of watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attempt to turn each other into twelve cans of…
How are five million Brits without work?
Last week, I came across a figure so staggering that I was convinced it was wrong: 5.3 million Brits (almost…
The Queen is one Brit Macron can warm to
He may not have much respect forthe ‘Clown’, but when it comes to the Queen Emmanuel Macron is as smitten…
Boris looks doomed, but can he escape the inevitable?
Is Boris Johnson’s government about to fall apart? Twice since World War Two, Tory governments have broken up after a…
Is Emma Raducanu a one-hit wonder?
If there is one thing that could salvage this year’s Wimbledon it would be a decent showing by the tournament’s…
Macron vs the deep state
French diplomats are on strike today. But will anyone notice? Not to be immodest, I am especially well qualified to…
Where's our world cup?
There was that frenetic drama of the last day of the Premier League just a fortnight ago – City down,…
What’s going on with the Russian economy?
The Russian economy is headed for its deepest recession since 1991. That’s the British government’s latest assessment of whether sanctions…
Why Georgia is going mad for Ukraine
Georgia seems to have gone Ukraine crazy since the outbreak of war in February. Taxi drivers have the Ukrainian flag…
Are republicans becoming an endangered species?
How disappointing. Come Jubilee time and the Guardian can usually be relied upon to lead the way in publishing sour…
Is Shakespeare racist?
Shakespeare’s Globe has a new wheeze to popularise its shows. The latest production, Henry VIII, is supported by a seminar…
How Poland came back from the brink
Poland is back. Not so long ago, the country was seen as an effigy of democratic backsliding, rather than a…
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee is a tribute to her legacy
The most recognisable woman on the planet was once told by a customer in a shop at Sandringham that she…
Is Harry Styles really the new David Bowie?
There’s something ludicrous about old people trying to understand the pop music preferred by youth. Mind you, youth is relative…
An interview with Michael Shellenberger
Michael Shellenberger is an unusual political candidate. He’s also arguably the only person with a chance of stopping Gavin Newsom…
Biden's Ukraine policy should bolster the Western alliance
After the confusion about what weaponry the US would supply to Ukraine and growing talk of divisions within the Western…
We need to talk about Salvador Ramos
It’s been over a week now since Salvador Ramos burst in to an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and fatally shot…
Partygate is not going away
Tory MPs just want partygate to go away. The hope that the Sue Gray report would be the end of things…
Boris is a saint compared to ‘Bunga Bunga’ Berlusconi
It was only a matter of time before someone really twisted the knife in and compared Boris ‘partygate’ Johnson to…
The EU’s oil ban is a damp squib
When Putin’s tanks rolled into Ukraine on 24 February there was a conceit that this might be the first war…
Johnny Depp and the truth about male domestic abuse victims
James looks nothing like Johnny Depp. For one thing, he is a lot taller than the 5 foot 8 star;…
An un-American accusation
Combatants within our nation’s political class never suffer for lack of insults — and in recent years they’ve taken to…
Germany is failing Ukraine
‘A giant step for German and European security,’ is how Chancellor Olaf Scholz described his government’s €100 billion cash injection…
Jacinda Ardern is New Zealand’s Gorbachev
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is currently leading a trade mission to the United States, with a meeting between…
How Russia wins
It is still too early to predict the outcome of the war in Ukraine. Russia has certainly solidified its position…
