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In Russia, Navalny is already becoming an unperson
Newspapers across Britain and the democratic world are dominated by the news of the death – perhaps murder – of…
Why won’t Justin Welby call out Russia’s Patriarch Kirill?
Justin Welby has just visited Ukraine. While there he spoke clearly against the false religion that underlies Russia’s ideology, and…
Donald Trump ordered to pay $350 million in fraud case
Donald Trump may be spending much of his time complaining that Nato members aren’t paying their bills, but he has…
Muslims won’t be fooled by George Galloway any more
It is a measure of how conspiracy theories have triumphed in the darkest corners of the left that, when the…
David Cameron and the long history of the posh Arabist
Anyone with a smattering of knowledge of Britain’s troubled history in the Middle East will be unsurprised by Lord Cameron’s…
The feuding tearing apart the Royal Society of Literature
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that the Royal Society of Literature (founded 1820) might be one of those institutions that chugs…
What Tucker Carlson gets wrong about Russia
‘I have seen the Future and it works,’ proclaimed leftist American journalist Lincoln Steffens after visiting Bolshevik Russia in 1919.…
France’s anti-democratic streak
For the past week the airwaves in France have eulogised Robert Badinter, a name unfamiliar to many outside the Republic.…
Congressman’s campaign site suffers X-rated hack
If you want casual sex in Australia, an online mistress, a “milf live chat,” or even just “local adult hookups…
Could AI ruin the election?
The artificial intelligence space is strange. Significantly overfunded, overhyped and overcovered — in part because AI can easily produce bad,…
It gets worse and worse for Rishi Sunak
Sixteen months ago Rishi Sunak was installed as Conservative leader and prime minister in the hope that he would be…
Hope for Russia has died with Navalny
It was brave. It was foolhardy. It was almost unbelievable. After his near-fatal poisoning by the Russian Federal Security Service,…
Could Harry become an American citizen?
If I was the producer of Good Morning America, I would feel disappointed by today’s appearance of Prince Harry on…
The tragedy of Alexei Navalny
I knew and greatly respected Alexei Navalny. The news (as yet not independently confirmed) that he died in prison came…
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison
Just over three years after he was imprisoned in Russia, the Putin critic Alexei Navalny has died. The news was…
Will the Ukrainian army retreat from Avdiivka?
The battle for Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast is a bloodbath. The city, which is also called the ‘gateway to Donetsk’,…
Shoppers are falling out of love with online shopping
Maybe the Office for National Statistics should stop seasonally adjusting its data. That is the lesson from today’s retail sales figures,…
The Tories should be worried about Reform
And with one bound he was free. In fact let’s make that two. A pair of whopping by-election wins in…
After last night Sunak is heading for electoral wipeout
And so Keir Starmer’s bad week comes to an end, just like that. Labour has won two by-elections in a…
2024 and the invasion at the southern border
Donald Trump crushed the New Hampshire primary, as every poll in Alpha Centauri predicted he would. Nevertheless, his sole remaining…
Why is Generation Z so undersexed?
There is a girl on TikTok, a bleached-blonde New York transplant who just passed a million followers, whose videos I…
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
In August 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control released new Covid testing guidelines, which called for increased vigilance in…
What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?
A month after the election shock of 2016, CBS’s John Dickerson sat down with the ninety-three-year-old Henry Kissinger to get…
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
As Donald Trump marches to the Republican nomination a third time, Americans are divided into two radically opposed camps. On…
How low birth rates could threaten our civilization
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…
