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Is your three-month-old baby racist?

4 March 2021 5:34 am

Conservatives like feeling outraged, but they don’t often like to earn their outrage. For most, it’s enough to wait for…

Rishi Sunak is a prime minister in waiting

4 March 2021 4:45 am

It is always a pleasure to see a first-rate mind in action, as we did during today’s Budget. Equally, when…

Will Rishi Sunak's Budget give Britain the boost it needs?

4 March 2021 3:00 am

For a man who has only delivered two Budgets, Rishi Sunak is no stranger to fiscal announcements. Last March’s £30bn spending…

Megxit and the War of the Waleses

3 March 2021 10:20 pm

A 99-year-old prince is in hospital. His 94-year-old wife is displaying an almost childish delight as she continues to dip…

Glory Hallelujah for Texas!

3 March 2021 10:14 pm

Even in the quick-as-a-wink world of democratic politics, where calculations change at slot-machine speed, you can feel major moments growling…

Is the news making us unwell?

3 March 2021 7:00 pm

Since the start of the pandemic I’ve been observing friends and family and their reactions to the virus. Broadly speaking…

America's Russian sanctions are futile

3 March 2021 6:06 pm

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised to approach Russia and its irascible President Vladimir Putin with a new…

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There’s no equality in equity

3 March 2021 9:08 am

It’s hard to keep them all straight, but among the many diktats emitted by the Biden administration during its first days in office,…

Nicola Sturgeon is fighting for her political life

3 March 2021 7:32 am

The Alex Salmond inquiry has seen its most remarkable day yet. Three pivotal documents have been released to the Holyrood…

Taxpayers stump up £18,000 for slavery audit

3 March 2021 5:10 am

It seems it’s a costly business putting together a historical report. In fact, it took two researchers and a grand…

Trump freezes the 2024 field

3 March 2021 3:32 am

Donald Trump is not retiring. He’s not disappearing to live the range life and he has no intentions of remaining…

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Cuomo’s problem isn’t #MeToo. It’s killing old people

3 March 2021 3:17 am

New York governor Andrew Cuomo is finally getting his comeuppance. Oddly, however, it’s not for killing thousands of nursing home…

Welcome to Trump’s second term

3 March 2021 2:41 am

President Biden’s emphatic assertion that ‘America is back’ at the Munich Security Conference last month was met with a lukewarm…

Kazuo Ishiguro is right about cancel culture

3 March 2021 12:24 am

When the Kuwaiti authorities banned nearly 1,000 books from the Kuwait International Literature festival including Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, the…

The Green party is missing a trick

2 March 2021 10:53 pm

The British left is moribund. The Labour party’s ratings are sliding under Sir Keir Starmer, aka ‘Captain Hindsight’, as he…

Why does this activist think a white person can't translate Amanda Gorman?

2 March 2021 10:28 pm

She is the darling of the nation, the star of the inauguration, the first US National Youth Poet Laureate: she…

HR 1 must be stopped

2 March 2021 9:32 pm

There is a reason Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called her 791-page bill, stuffed as it is with her favorite election-related…

Scotland could become the EU's next great problem

2 March 2021 8:54 pm

It is generally acknowledged, even by diehard Remainers, that the European Union’s handling of Cameron’s attempted renegotiation of the UK’s…

President Biden vs Dr Seuss

2 March 2021 7:58 pm

The children’s author Theodore Seuss Geisel lived his entire life not just as a staunch progressive, but even as the…

Who killed Chicago?

2 March 2021 9:12 am

‘I wonder if you might do a “notebook” on living in Chicago at the moment,’ my London-based editor inquired via email. ‘The latest…

The West’s vaccine complacency

2 March 2021 6:39 am

Today, in their first bilateral summit, Joe Biden will meet (virtually) Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Among other things…

Oxford’s remarkable vaccine success

2 March 2021 5:48 am

It is worth taking a moment to stand back and applaud Sarah Gilbert and the Oxford vaccine team’s achievement. The…

EU leaders’ vaccine sniping backfires

2 March 2021 5:13 am

The eyes of the world have been on Britain’s vaccination programme in recent months, as the UK government embarked on…

Why did Roy Greenslade demonise me when I accused an IRA member of rape?

2 March 2021 4:16 am

Does it really matter if someone who was a newspaper editor, columnist and journalism professor has now admitted to being…

Nicolas Sarkozy and a very French corruption scandal

2 March 2021 4:10 am

Nicolas Sarkozy, 66, President of France from 2007 to 2012, currently a valued member of Emmanuel Macron’s informal council of…