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Climate change isn’t responsible for Australia’s hailstorms
It was pretty inevitable that once rain finally started to fall in South Eastern Australia, extinguishing some of the bushfires…
The sad death of the Femocrats
Their blazers are bright, but their futures are not. Elite women Democrats have faced a brutal reckoning over the past…
What would Orwell have made of Trump?
As far as we know, George Orwell never visited America. This is a great pity. What a joy it would…
The Senate impeachment trial is all about November
The single most important thing to understand about the Senate impeachment trial is that it is all for show, meant…
In Apprentice-Style Special, New York Times Endorses Trump for President
In the New York Times’s latest self-centered Hulu special, the op-ed board invited Democratic primary candidate after candidate into their lavish…
Keir Starmer makes it onto the Labour leadership ballot: who else will join him?
Keir Starmer has made it through to the final round of the Labour leadership contest, having secured the backing of…
Nobody cares who The New York Times endorses
There’s conceit, there’s pomposity, and then there’s the New York Times editorial board. Yesterday, the Grey Lady wiggled her well-connected bottom,…
Why secession beckons
The craziness of our politics makes you wonder what’s round the bend. After the ‘resistance’, the pussy hats, the non-stop…
Harry has deserted the Royal Marines in their hour of need
I have been trying with considerable success not to give two hoots about this Harry and Meghan thing. But a…
Forget moving the Lords – lets have an elected senate instead
In two weeks’ time, we will finally escape the European Union, freeing ourselves from its monumental waste. Waste, that is,…
The delusion of the born-again Brexiteers
As 31 January looms, I’ve been thinking about how to bring the country back together again after we’ve left the…
Harry & Meghan have won – and the monarchy has lost
The ‘third way’ of being a senior royal – representing the Queen one day, earning serious money the next, was…
The Queen tells Harry: out means out
In the end, it took just over a week for Prince Harry to announce and finalise the terms of his…
On Brexit, no one quite knows where Boris is taking us
I am not going to lie: I am bored sick with Brexit. Like so many of you, I have become…
You come at the Trump, you best not miss
The third presidential impeachment in US history has now reached the Senate. Like the first two, this one is almost…
Impeachment is now just another bludgeon in the armory of political warfare
A couple of days ago, members of the United States House of Representatives processed with all their accustomed pomp and dignity…
Is Labour heading for another Kinnock moment?
‘You end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council – hiring taxis to scuttle round…
Let Big Ben bong for Brexit day
Something deeply embarrassing is happening in our country. It is not entirely clear why, but in an act of extreme…
David Attenborough is making the same mistake as Greta Thunberg
It wasn’t so long ago that Sir David Attenborough came across as a calm voice of reason. His much-admired documentaries…
If the impeachment trial is ‘a joke’, who’s having the last laugh?
Yet another dubious figure whom Donald Trump barely knows. This time it’s Lev Parnas, the Michael Cohen of 2020. ‘I…
My evening with the Bernie Bros
The stench of beer and cheap deodorant filled the bar in which the ‘Bernie Bros’ were meeting. The scene looked…
MPs need an alternative career path to just becoming a minister
Parliament feels rather quiet at the moment, and it’s not just because there are no longer constant knife-edge votes on…
Megxit is a diplomatic nightmare
The government has wisely kept away from the Harry and Meghan story so far. Despite that, no one should imagine…
The hunt is on for Putin’s successor
Putin does like to spring a surprise. The first hour or so of his state of the nation address yesterday…
There’s a long way to go before Trump can declare victory in his trade war
There is no shortage of quotes by Donald Trump that his opponents have tried to use against him — few…
