World
Which New York Times staffers are worth fighting for?
The New York Times fiercely defended editorial board member Mara Gay this week after she faced ridicule on Twitter for…
Will the G7 tax deal survive?
What are the chances of the G7’s agreement on a minimum rate of corporation tax actually coming into effect? While…
Judge Ollie Robinson on his cricket skills, not his tweets
Ollie Robinson, who made his Test debut for England at Lord’s last week against New Zealand, is an outstanding cricketer…
Trump’s influence is waning in exile. Is that a bad thing?
Some say the Roman Republic died when the Senate murdered Tiberius Gracchus, a populist reformer. When the elites whose negligence…
The ‘sausage war’ escalates between the UK and EU
Any hope that a solution to the Northern Ireland protocol could be found ahead of the G7 summit have been…
Canada’s disturbing pattern of anti-Muslim attacks
Canada is a vibrant multicultural society. The Great White North has become a shining example of a diverse democracy. It…
Labour's summer of hubristic books
Tomorrow Gordon Brown is set to release his latest messianic tome. Grandly titled Seven Ways to Change the World: How to…
France’s Covid stoicism has put Britain to shame
I feel like a teenager again. Tonight I’m allowed out until 11pm. What’s more, I’m permitted to go inside my…
Revealed: what Boris and Carrie hang on their walls
Much has been written about the reported £88,000 Downing Street flat makeover masterminded by A-list interior designer Lulu Lytle. We’re…
Priti Patel is running out of excuses for the Channel migrant crisis
When immigration minister Chris Philp announced last summer that he was in the process of agreeing a ‘new operational plan’ with…
No one will care about the Hunter Biden N-word scandal
Newly published text messages from Hunter Biden reveal that Hunter Biden…is an American with actual freedom of speech! How lucky…
Joe Biden’s summer vacation
Tomorrow, The Committee will bundle up Joe Biden, titular president of the United States, and take him for a nice…
Kamala’s bad trip
Vice President Kamala Harris embarked on her first foreign trip since taking office this week — and quickly proved herself…
China should be worried about the Uyghur Tribunal
There have been harrowing storiesof cruelty, torture and mistreatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang province in the newsthis week, coming from…
What the England team doesn’t get about ‘taking the knee’
England’s players being booed by their own fans is not a new phenomenon. But for the booing to be about…
Why our constituency names should celebrate Britain’s history
The real story of the proposed boundary changes is not which MPs might end up seatless or whether the new…
Will beefy Botham hit the hacks for six?
The end of lockdown and the dawn of summer has seen Westminster’s finest emerge once more in their best cricket…
Maya Wiley’s ‘Defund the Police’ folly
Defund the police! The clarion cry of protesters and middle-class warriors everywhere never fails to stir Cockburn’s passions. Slashing police…
France, football and Marine Le Pen’s war on a French rapper
‘Dans ce rêve où ma semence de nègre fout en cloque cette chienne de Marine Le Pen.’ You don’t have…
Should we mix Pfizer and AstraZeneca Covid jabs?
Should the NHS be mixing vaccines for better effect, or at least offering people who have had one dose of…
The German takeover of the EU is accelerating
Vetoes should no longer be allowed. Smaller countries should not be able to block the will of the ‘majority’. And…
DeSantis pads his résumé with anti-CCP bills
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed two more pieces of major legislation on Monday, this time targeting Chinese Communist party influence…
Political asylum? There’s an app for that
Apps are the 21st century’s answer to everything, it seems to Cockburn. Faced with a problem, sooner or later some…
Matt Walsh, AOC and the limits of ‘own-the-libs conservatism’
On Wednesday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez issued an anguished tweet about the living conditions of her grandmother in Puerto Rico, whose…
Lab leaks and the return of X-Files politics
It began last month when the Wall Street Journal reported that three researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology had…
