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Joe Biden and the realities of the N-word
“If you didn’t vote for Biden, you ain’t black,” tweeted 2020 Florida Republican congressional candidate Lavern Spicer on Thursday, “I…
The doctor is mad
I have been writing a lot about the politically inspired perversion of language. The name “Orwell” crops up in any…
Communist China abandons Confucius
China in late September celebrated the 2,572nd birthday of Confucius, a mark of pride for the Chinese Communist Party. A…
Cheers to drunk politicians
Cockburn has always been suspicious of politicians who don’t drink. The track record there isn’t very good: Hitler, Biden, Trump,…
The non-scandal of Glenn Youngkin’s ‘Oriental’ prom night
Welcome to the grubby world of politics, Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin. A breathless report on the Democrat blog Blue Virginia on…
Meghan has been found out
‘Speaking her truth’ has been one of Meghan Markle’s USPs – and what an absolute disaster it’s been, leading inevitably…
The grim reality of gender reassignment
Lisa Littman, a doctor and researcher, recently surveyed ‘detransitioners’ — people who thought they were transgender then changed their minds.…
France is using migrants just like Belarus
It was hard not to laugh, coldly, at the statement from western members of the UN Security Council that condemned…
Does Rishi Sunak really understand red wall voters?
Rishi Sunak thinks Boris Johnson goofed badly when he conspiring to upend Commons standards procedures and agrees with his colleagues…
Why is Durham offering training for student sex workers?
As a first year university student from a disadvantaged background, I know all too well the constant struggle students can…
Eighteen months of inflation is not ‘transitory’
The big central banks have been insisting for months now that the rise in inflation is temporary, and will fade…
A troubling tide of anti-Semitism is sweeping Britain and France
A day after the Israeli ambassador to Britain, Tzipi Hotovely, was harassed as she left the London School of Economics,…
Gove gets into gear
‘This government ends if the red wall reverts back to type and we lose 45 seats then end up in…
The remarkable rise of French sovereignism
The French presidential campaign reveals French voters’ widespread urge to roll back EU powers. The top five candidates for the…
It’s time for Boris to turn back the Channel migrant boats
There is a sentence in the latest BBC report on English Channel migrant crossings that is just exquisite. Thursday saw…
Lukashenko and Putin are exploiting Europe’s migration muddle
At the border of Belarus and Poland, camps of migrants wait for a chance to cross the border into the…
Whither the woke?
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a collection of ingenuous words devised by a young man, John Koenig, who spent seven…
F.W. de Klerk was a hero of our time
FW de Clerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, has died at the age of 85. In 2010 Rian Malan…
The EU’s threats against London have been exposed as bluster
Francois Hollande could hardly have been clearer in his intentions. In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 vote that took…
The cynical brilliance of Boris Johnson’s green conversion
Does Boris Johnson really believe, as he told COP26 a few days ago, we’re at ‘one minute to midnight’ on…
Why Rishi Sunak’s sleaze row apology matters
Sorry may be the hardest word for Boris Johnson but that isn’t the case for certain members of his cabinet.…
Britain is finally remembering the forgotten soldiers of empire
Each year, flowers of remembrance are left on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey. The memorial marks…
Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery: a tale of two trials
Two consequential trials are currently underway in America. Both in some way relate to the events of last year surrounding…
Harry and Meghan, the term ‘Megxit’ isn’t sexist
Just when you thought Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s collective victim complex couldn’t get any more vast and cavernous, up…
How Turkey is fuelling the Belarus-Poland migrant crisis
In the cold, damp forest lining the border between Poland and Belarus, thousands of refugees flown over from the Middle…
