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Stop hating on celebrity politicians
I recently had the chance to peek behind Dr. Mehmet Oz’s curtain, and what I saw made me view the…
Atlantic journalist: I still don’t care about Hunter’s laptop
Cockburn has accidentally left his laptop at plenty of bars in his day. Yet if you were to open it…
Will Britain’s new energy strategy keep the lights on?
Today’s Energy Security Strategy puts energy security at the heart of the debate over energy and environmental policy, where it…
Five ways for Rishi to bounce back
Four weeks ago, Rishi Sunak was riding high, Boris Johnson was on the slide and the Chancellor’s daughter was proudly…
Anxiety is killing parenthood
Britain is on a slow descent to oblivion. Scotland is even closer to the abyss, with a birth rate of…
Ed Sheeran is right about British courts
As they say in the music business, where there’s a hit, there’s a writ. It is something that no one…
Good riddance to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russia’s clown prince
He wanted to see the Baltic States bombarded with toxic waste. He brawled in parliament. He encouraged Vladimir Putin to declare…
Putin’s winning streak in European politics
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said triumphantly that ‘if…
The view from Ukraine: world war three has already started
I saw the first Russian bombs land from my balcony in Chernivtsi. They hit a military depot 50 miles away…
Macron has taken this election for granted
Things are going from bad to worse for Emmanuel Macron, and for the first time political commentators in France are…
The revealing backlash to Boris’s Channel 4 sell off
Why is there so much anger over the sale of Channel 4? Tonnes of slebs are very cross and have signed…
It’s still Obama’s White House
Barack Obama returned to the White House this week, and his presence was a straight up blast from the past.…
Preventing the next Hunter Biden laptop coverup
Hunter Biden just paid over $1 million in back taxes for income he never claimed, but which was found in his…
How to waste an 80-seat majority
Cast your mind back to Channel 4’s election night programme. The 2019 exit poll results flash up on screen. Realising…
Does Rwanda offer the answer to Britain’s Channel migrant crisis?
Away from the well-merited focus on Ukraine, normal politics carries on in Britain. One has to poke around a bit…
The war on workers
It is been a familiar story in recent years: a Budget that sounded reasonably good when delivered, but that unravels…
China’s zero Covid crack-up
‘We’re being driven mad. Nobody is listening to us. They’ve politicised this disease.’ This week, the candid remarks of Zhu…
Bucha and the dark echoes of Srebrenica
High on a hillside not far from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica the remains of dozens of young Muslim…
Could Marine Le Pen actually win?
Emmanuel Macron is worried. This wasn’t how he had envisaged the election. A month ago the president of France held…
Why does Twitter think Russian lies are OK but Trump isn’t?
So on Twitter you can lie about war crimes but you cannot tell the truth about biology? That is the…
Putin, Bucha and a tale of two Russias
The scenes of butchery and barbarism in the liberated Ukrainian towns of Bucha and Irpin and nearby villages – civilians…
Viktor Orbán is no friend of the West
Viktor Orbán‘s victory speech in Budapest on Sunday night took a curious turn. Speaking after a fourth landslide win, he…
Tory backlash over Channel 4 privatisation
Downing Street’s plan to privatise Channel 4 is already facing a Tory revolt – less than 24 hours after the…
Putin doesn’t need to seize Kyiv to destroy Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine took one step forward and two steps back in the search for an elusive peace settlement during…
Was another tragic Jewish death covered up in France?
Not for the first time in France the death of a Jew is dominating the news, and not for the…
