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Rishi’s wife changes tack on tax
This evening Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty has announced that she will pay UK taxes on her overseas income, following a public backlash…
When Biden joked that he’d ‘beat the hell’ out of a congressman
Five Guys has always been Cockburn’s first choice for a greasy cheeseburger — breakfast of champions, says he — but…
Sulky Sunak has scuppered himself
There is a scene in one of the Lord of the Rings films in which kindly Bilbo Baggins becomes contorted…
Say no to the populist war party
Addressing the question of whether now is the time for counterrevolution rather than conservation, I will take “counterrevolution” to mean the…
The Guardian goes for J.K. Rowling
It seems that taking gratuitous swipes at J.K. Rowling has become something of a competition for liberal broadsheets on both sides…
How Israel’s Prime Minister got burnt by bread
Jerusalem For nearly ten months now, ever since his surprising elevation to the Israeli prime minister’s office, Naftali Bennett has…
Russia and Ukraine’s fate is about to be decided
The first phase of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has ended with a decisive defeat for Russian forces in the…
Is Israel facing a new Intifada?
Dizengoff Street is one of the busiest thoroughfares in Tel Aviv, a strip of bars, restaurants and Bauhaus architecture that…
Pressure on Sunak grows over his wife’s non-dom status
Rishi Sunak goes into the weekend facing questions from the media, Labour and some Tories over the tax status of…
Russia ‘realists’ have very little to say about evil
‘Every way of a man is right in his own eyes’, the Book of Proverbs says: it makes us feel…
Ukraine has exposed the EU for what it really is
Since the Ukraine conflict erupted, the EU has had a great deal to say about its sympathy for Ukraine as…
China: one bully to rule them all
Several years ago, I visited the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It’s located, a bit surreally,…
Why the left really wants to sexualize your kids
Conservatives, for practically the first time ever, have gone on offense in the debate over Florida’s Parental Rights in Education…
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.…
