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Russia will be sweating over its withdrawal from Kherson

10 November 2022 6:56 am

Almost everyone has known that the city of Kherson, stranded on the right bank of the Dnipro River, was all…

Why Russia pulled out of Kherson

10 November 2022 3:59 am

In one of the biggest developments of the Ukraine war, Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has just announced the evacuation…

Who will be next week’s ministerial exit?

10 November 2022 3:14 am

For the past fortnight, it was Suella Braverman. Now it’s Sir Gavin Williamson. The media aims to destroy two careers…

How did I get the midterms so wrong?

10 November 2022 3:06 am

How wrong can you be? About as wrong as I was about the character of the midterm elections. I thought…

What the Gavin Williamson saga says about British politics

10 November 2022 1:59 am

I wonder if the fall of Gavin Williamson is the latest evidence that British political parties are becoming harder to…

Why didn’t Democrats pay a price for their extremism?

10 November 2022 1:41 am

The modern political pundit is a voice in the wilderness, a self-styled beacon of truth against a pampered and bought-off…

The US midterm results are a wake-up call for the Republicans

10 November 2022 12:41 am

There was no ‘red wave’ in America last night. This became obvious fairly early on, when congressional seats the Republicans…

Gavin Williamson is still causing problems for Rishi Sunak

10 November 2022 12:27 am

Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions showed it is possible for someone who has resigned for being a distraction to continue being…

Donald Trump is an albatross around the Republican neck

10 November 2022 12:25 am

Donald Trump spent the days immediately before the midterms teasing and threatening his biggest Republican rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis.…

Another blue day for red New Yorkers

9 November 2022 11:54 pm

Lee Zeldin’s fairytale run for governor of New York fell short on Tuesday as he lost by roughly five points…

Is Netflix’s The Crown fact or fiction?

9 November 2022 11:26 pm

The latest series of The Crown has arrived on Netflix. To its predictable advantage, the show has already had the…

Why the red wave never crested

9 November 2022 7:15 pm

The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…

Midterms: No red wave, America is still very divided

9 November 2022 5:35 pm

Is it a red wave? A ripple? Or a trickle? Nobody quite knows. However, what looks certain is that the…

Trump calls for McConnell’s ouster on eve of election

9 November 2022 8:50 am

Former president Donald Trump called for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be replaced by Senator Rick Scott during a…

Williamson out after bullying allegations

9 November 2022 7:27 am

In the past few minutes Gavin Williamson has quit the government after another formal complaint was made about his conduct.…

Sunak escapes blame over Williamson allegations… so far

9 November 2022 6:28 am

Pressure is mounting on Rishi Sunak and Gavin Williamson. The official who alleged that Williamson bullied them when defence secretary…

WaPo calls out Biden’s lies with ‘Bottomless Pinnochio’ award

9 November 2022 4:48 am

Cockburn’s monocle popped out of his head and plopped into his oatmeal yesterday morning as he perused the Washington Post.…

Macron won’t fix the migrant crisis

9 November 2022 1:18 am

Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron met on the fringes of Cop27 in Egypt on Monday and the Prime Minister emerged…

Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations

9 November 2022 12:43 am

Is it right that Britain should pay £1.5 billion for developing countries to adapt to floods, cyclones and rising sea…

Cop27: Sunak’s first overseas trip as PM

8 November 2022 11:28 pm

Rishi Sunak is back from his first overseas trip as Prime Minister. Despite Downing Street having initially said he wouldn’t…

Raising inheritance tax is fair and right

8 November 2022 10:38 pm

Here’s a thought experiment about tax and fairness. Imagine two people, Janet and John. They’re both 30 years old. Janet…

Boris’s babes to join the Lords

8 November 2022 9:37 pm

They were the dynamic, priapic premiers who guided their country through a pandemic – and the comparisons between Boris Johnson…

Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage

8 November 2022 8:56 pm

Greta Thunberg, the Shirley Temple of the apocalypse, let the cat out of the bag last week. She told the audience at her book launch that…

Rishi Sunak should consider levelling down HS2

8 November 2022 8:29 pm

If you’re after a lesson in how to lose friends and alienate people, look no further than the government’s cack-handed…

The Biden elephant in the room

8 November 2022 6:17 pm

Let us face an unpleasant fact that many seem curiously reluctant to report or discuss. President Joe Biden appears to…