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Antony Blinken’s soundtrack to failure

10 January 2022 2:37 pm

Antony Blinken, the secretary of state and first guitarist, has broken with the tired protocols of the past, faced the…

What was Ted Cruz thinking?

10 January 2022 12:41 am

At least since the 2016 election, one of my favorites politicians — one of the few I could stomach at…

The EU rules creating an armada of empty ‘ghost flights’

9 January 2022 7:00 pm

This week it was reported that Lufthansa Group – which also owns Brussels Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Eurowings and Swiss International…

Covid has made America more divided than ever

8 January 2022 10:40 pm

I knew when I boarded the plane home to America on Boxing Day that I was heading to an unhappy…

Goodbye Bill de Blasio, New York-hating communist

8 January 2022 9:20 pm

At the stroke of midnight on January 1, Bill de Blasio — New York’s bumbling, mildly sinister but profoundly incompetent…

America is in a state of mass formation paralysis

8 January 2022 8:40 pm

Unless you happen to live under a rock, this week you became aware of Dr. Robert Malone. He’s a virologist…

The Pope is right: it is selfish to choose pets over children

8 January 2022 7:00 pm

Well, we’ve been terrifically amused and amusing at the expense of Pope Francis, who this week declared at a Vatican…

Welcome to the end of democracy

8 January 2022 6:00 pm

We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian…

Masks in schools: how convincing is the government's evidence?

8 January 2022 6:00 pm

Why has the government changed its mind and asked children to wear masks in school? When Plan B was announced…

Why is Bilbo Baggins a fascist favourite?

8 January 2022 6:00 pm

If you were asked to think of a perfect fascist, never in a month of Sundays would you suggest Bilbo Baggins…

Will universities declare their China funding?

8 January 2022 3:50 am

Britain’s leading universities are just one sector having to grapple with the recent decline in UK-China relations. Barely six years…

The energy crisis is a failure of politics

8 January 2022 2:35 am

Many of the thorniest problems of politics come down to the same thing: timeframes. Big problems generally require solutions that…

Get ready to start paying the cost of Covid

8 January 2022 1:40 am

Forget the desirability (or lack thereof) of tax hikes: can Britain survive them? That’s the economic question that kicked off…

I stand with Novak Djokovic

8 January 2022 12:22 am

Is anyone else alarmed by the widespread glee at the way Novak Djokovic has been treated by the Aussies? The…

What the Capitol riots and the plot to stop Brexit have in common

7 January 2022 6:50 pm

It’s not often that browsing the genteel aisles of Waterstones reminds you of madmen storming the Capitol in buffalo-horn helmets,…

Biden’s Capitol speech shows how much he needs Trump

7 January 2022 2:58 am

Joe Biden delivered. There was no somnolence, no quiescence. Instead, Biden lashed into his predecessor in unprecedented fashion to offer…

Have we reached peak human rights?

7 January 2022 2:30 am

After the Colston debacle, you might be forgiven for having missed the other legal story that broke this week. The…

Are J.K. Rowling’s goblins really anti-Semitic?

7 January 2022 2:22 am

Is J.K. Rowling anti-Semitic? Yes, I know. It’s the first week of 2022 and this question is being asked, after…

Bloodshed in Kazakhstan could spell trouble for Putin

7 January 2022 2:13 am

Russian troops have now arrived in Kazakhstan in a desperate bid to halt the tide of violence that has swept…

Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter ban is nothing to celebrate

7 January 2022 1:14 am

Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuttier than M&M World. Not your garden-variety conservative, or even a conservative at all, but a…

Novak Djokovic is treating Australians like mugs

7 January 2022 12:27 am

Just minutes from the heart of Victoria’s capital, Melbourne Park is one of the great tennis complexes. For a fortnight…

The problem with rewilding

6 January 2022 10:30 pm

The government has gone wild. Under new plans, just announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice, farmers and landowners in England could…

The Capitol riot transformed right-wing activism in America

6 January 2022 10:21 pm

The invasion of Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021 represented the rise and fall of pro-Trump anti-governmental activism in a…

What's happening in Kazakhstan?

6 January 2022 9:30 pm

Since the start of the new year, riots have spread throughout Kazakhstan. In the former capital of Almaty, the airport has…

What really matters in the Covid culture wars?

6 January 2022 8:02 pm

During the grimmest days of the First Crusade in 1098, the western Christians found themselves besieged by the Turks in…