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Apocalypse, please: Climate Night looms
Does humanity deserve a prolonged existence on Earth? Cockburn begs the question after learning that tonight is Climate Night on…
We need to talk about Joe Biden
Americans are increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden’s mental state, and for good reason. It’s not just some mean right-wing trope.…
China’s obsessive attempts to subvert the West
Most people who think themselves well informed know little or nothing about China. They – or I should say ‘we’…
Why won’t German politicians talk about migration?
For a country with a reputation for being staid and predictable, the election campaign that closes the Merkel era in…
No, Biden didn’t just snub Brexit Britain
For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of…
Joe Biden is everything Trump wanted to be
Do you remember the president who gave Vladimir Putin everything he wanted in Europe? The president who consistently ignored the…
AUKUS, Afghanistan and the foreign policy amateur
Since Joe Biden was elected in part as a salve for Donald Trump’s perceived foreign policy blunders, it seems reasonable…
Biden’s big UN whopper
President Joe Biden walked into the grand UN General Assembly chamber this morning with a list of asks, an appeal…
Boris pressgangs Biden at White House love-in
You can take the boy out of journalism but you can’t the journalism out of the boy. That’s the rule…
Another stupid, redundant, dismal Canadian election
Canada has just surpassed even its own previous records for absurd and boring elections yielding predictable and dreary results. Almost…
The EU should keep out of France’s spat with Australia
Ursula von der Leyen has demanded a full investigation. EU officials are considering pulling out of technology talks with the…
Boris is a mini-Biden
It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself…
The Biden border crisis isn’t going away
The record influx of illegal immigrants on the southern border — and the White House’s refusal to refer to it…
Starmer’s shameful silence on the Rosie Duffield trans row
One of the most shocking images from the Corbyn years of the Labour party was Luciana Berger flanked by police…
We’ll all pay the price for reckless energy firms’ gambling
You know that mate of yours who is always boasting they pay way less for energy than you because they’re…
Rejecting the media elite echo chamber
If the mainstream media were hoping to learn from the mistakes of 2016, there were plenty of lessons for them…
Is China’s debt-fuelled economy doomed?
For years it seemed as though China’s massively inflated property bubble would just keep on expanding, seemingly defying the laws of economics, as…
Trudeau in blackface row (again)
Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to…
Punch-up at the palace: why the Taliban is tearing itself apart
The office of the Afghan president, the Arg, sits in more than 80 acres of parkland, quadruple the size of…
The Biden presidency is in free-fall
Eight months in and I am perilously close to employing one of the worst political clichés in existence — Joe…
The ‘Justice for J6’ rally was a total dud
There used to be an old joke that there were more members of the FBI who were members of the…
J.D. Vance: Biden is unwilling to secure the southern border
All eyes are on the flyover state of Ohio as the fight for the future of Trumpism unfolds. In January,…
Ticking off the French was strategic genius
In December 2020, in the aftermath of the presidential election, Jake Sullivan, President-elect Joe Biden’s national security advisor, urged European…
Four of the worst responses to the Aukus deal
It is four days since the US, UK and Australia announced their historic security pact in the Asia-Pacific but there are few…
Xi Jinping is weaponising China’s sex scandals
Zhou Xiaoxuan was in tears when she emerged from the Beijing court around midnight on Tuesday. ‘I’m really sorry there…
