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Can the new PM survive the looming winter energy disaster?
Climate and energy have been peripheral issues in the Conservative leadership campaign thus far. In the early stages, only Kemi…
Will Boris be back?
‘Hasta la vista, baby’ Boris Johnson told the Commons at his final PMQs. But could the fallen leader be seeking…
Why Macron would prefer Rishi Sunak as PM
France and Britain have been bickering again, this time about the chaos at the ferry ports over the weekend. The…
Dobbs has changed America forever
For nearly half a century, American politics has been defined according to the strictures of a single Supreme Court decision:…
The crisis of Generation Z
The youth aren’t doing well — not in America, at least. Even before Covid, experts were ringing the alarm bells…
Why prime minister Truss might surprise us all
Many Labour supporters are quietly allowing themselves to celebrate: if Liz Truss does win the Tory leadership, a Labour government,…
The two Americas: California vs. Florida
What is America? The answer to that simple question can get you into a lot of trouble. Or it can…
Hungary’s revenge: Orban is sacrificing EU unity for Russian gas
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov spoke magnanimously while receiving his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó in Moscow this week. He promised…
The tide is turning in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Could Russia triumph? There’s a growing sense that, as the months wear on, Ukraine’s resistance is faltering. The West is…
There’s nothing conservative about climate change
The combination of ’40°C temperatures’ and ‘England’ feels about as natural a pairing as ‘English football’ and ‘winning’; God simply…
Tory MPs will regret giving Kemi and Penny the boot
If the chaos of recent weeks in British politics has clarified anything, it’s the almost complete schism between Conservative MPs and…
Why Erdogan is now happy to snub Putin
Vladimir Putin’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the start of the Ukraine war was supposed to project…
Putin could come to regret his gas game with Europe
Russian president Vladimir Putin has always enjoyed trolling European leaders. As relations between Moscow and Berlin deteriorate over reduced natural…
Biden’s problem isn’t his age, it’s his eyesight
My brothers, my sisters, hold it right there. Thank you. We’re missing a major point, howsoever understandably. All this media…
HSBC has answered the call of the Chinese Communist Party
HSBC was being more than a little disingenuous when it claimed on Thursday that Communist party cells don’t have much…
What’s the matter with Disney?
If there’s one thing that gives a bad name to gender stereotyping it’s the Disney princess: a combination of hideous…
Why Zelensky is purging the security services of Ukraine
Could a general of the SBU, the security service of Ukraine, really have helped Russia take the city of Kherson?…
Germany is caught in Putin’s trap
A collective sigh of relief went through Berlin this week as Russia resumed its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1…
In defence of Liz Truss’s ‘fairytale economics’
One of the key dividing lines of the current Tory leadership contest concerns economic policy. The gap between the candidates…
Priti and Truss back MPs over Beijing’s threats
Most Tories are focusing on the leadership race but for some there are other concerns. Take the five MPs who…
Ukraine and Russia sign grain deal – what next?
This afternoon Kyiv and Moscow signed a UN-backed agreement to free up at least 20 million tons of grain from…
Don’t blame Brexit for the Dover chaos
Queues stretching back for several hours. Children going crazy in the back seat. Cars breaking down in the heat, and…
A rather funny story about Ivana Trump
The death of Ivana Trump last week reminded me of a story I had always meant to check. I rang…
How much have the 6 January hearings damaged Trump?
The congressional inquiry into 6 January’s storming of the Capitol is having a break. In its last prime-time hearing of…
There’s one court where Prince Harry can’t win
When Prince Harry and Meghan ‘stepped back’ as working royals, you’d be forgiven for thinking we would see and hear from…
