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Isn’t it time Sacha Baron Cohen got cancelled?
How helpful of the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen to reveal that there are two or three people in America who…
Is this the end of history?
Midway through Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there occurs this exchange between two characters: ‘“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill…
It’s not about Woodrow Wilson. It’s about indoctrination
On November 18, 2015, a group of Princeton University undergraduates calling themselves the Black Justice League, or BJL, invaded historic…
Even Japan could be about to embrace remote working
A Japanese banker once told me that his company had opened an expensive showcase office block in the centre of…
The rise of coercive progressivism
What has followed the killing of George Floyd did not begin with the death of a man under the knee…
Is Leicester going to see England’s first local lockdown?
The first local lockdown – and therefore a test of whether local lockdowns will be effective in suppressing coronavirus outbreaks…
Has Boris's luck finally run out?
In the grand scheme of things, it is easy to overestimate the importance of Parliamentary performances. But they do influence…
Do we erase Black history when we take down statues?
The Summer Of Our Discontent is in full swing and the social guillotines — at first applied to legitimate injustice…
J’Accuse Barack Obama!
When President Obama was in his 75-day transition to the Presidency, he initiated correspondence with Supreme Leader Khamenei of Iran…
Will Cambridge University finally stand up for free speech?
When Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a University of Cambridge academic, tweeted ‘White lives don’t matter’ and ‘Abolish whiteness’ in response to…
The difference in Starmer and Johnson's approach to party discipline
Keir Starmer’s approach to party discipline is being favourably contrasted with Boris Johnson’s after the Labour leader sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from his shadow…
Where are the deaths?
The coronavirus doomsayers could not even wait until the fall for the apocalyptic announcements of the dreaded second wave. Because…
Don’t write off Donald Trump
New polling this week spells more bad news for President Trump. Nationally, and in battleground states, former Vice President Joe…
Why has Hope not Hate shifted its focus to climate change?
Hope Not Hate is an organisation with a fine campaigning record which has done a lot of good in tackling…
Macron has 500 days to save himself
The clock is ticking for Emmanuel Macron. He has under two years of his presidential mandate to carry out his…
The Pride of Joy Reid
Why isn’t MSNBC proud? The progressive cable network have been scratching their heads over who should fill the 7 p.m.…
Nigel Farage: Trump is taking us back to more traditional alliances
Our Washington editor Amber Athey interviewed Nigel Farage, founder of the UK Brexit party, for a Steamboat Institute livestream. We’ve…
Bright lights, abandoned city
Joan Didion wrote that New York is a city only for the very rich, the very poor and the very…
Manners maketh America
When I moved to New York in 2005 to be the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent, the first thing I was struck…
Black Lives Matter is a state-backed religion
‘Protest’ often feels inadequate as a characterization for the public exhibitions that have erupted nationwide over the past several weeks.…
Keir Starmer is stuffed
The British political and media establishment had Remain winning the Brexit referendum at a canter, Hillary Clinton as US president…
Why Biden might be better for Brexit Britain
At the best of times, US presidential elections require the British government to walk a tightrope. In 1992, a Tory…
After BHAZ
Protesters tried to establish an autonomous zone between the White House and St John’s Episcopal Church on Monday. Law enforcement…
Meet Adrienne Elrod, Biden’s new bodyguard
Meet Adrienne Elrod, Joe Biden’s director of surrogate strategy and operations. She was hired in June and previously served as…
Revealed: What ‘Black Lives Matter’ really stands for
Anyone worth listening to agrees that black lives matter. But what does the organisation ‘Black Lives Matter’ stand for? Worryingly,…
