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The misery of Macron’s Covid clampdown
My daughter’s Christmas won’t quite be the same this year. She and I are in England but her French mother…
Liverpool’s painting purge
Merseyside – the home of Roger McGough, Willy Russell and the Beatles. But it seems that despite the area’s reputation as…
The EU is forcing Poland to choose between money or the constitution
You might find it difficult, not to mention dangerous, to get to see a real meeting between an irresistible force…
Cold turkey: is a Christmas tradition coming to an end?
When I recently asked younger work friends about the prospect of turkey for Christmas dinner, it was greeted with grim…
Jacinda Ardern to Alastair Campbell: My 2021 ‘naughty list’
Merry Christmas – but not for those who have earned a place on my naughty list. From Jacinda Ardern to…
Kamala’s bad press isn’t ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’
Vice President Kamala Harris has been quoted as saying her media coverage would be better if she were a white man.…
Covid fearmongering has consequences too
The scaremongers have overplayed their hand. Omicron could prove disastrous, they warned. They scoffed at the early indicators from South…
Will Omicron overwhelm the NHS? The crucial missing data
If you catch Omicron your risk of ending up in hospital is between 50 to 70 per cent less likely…
Is vaccine refusal a matter for Justin Welby?
It’s not quite ‘the night before Christmas’ but it’s close. The timing could hardly be worse for Justin Welby to…
Labour looks like a proper opposition. That doesn’t mean they’ll win
There’s no point denying it, Labour is doing a bit better these days. Its poll rating is averaging a 39,…
If you watch one thing this Christmas, make it The Witcher
If you only watch one thing on TV this Christmas, make it The Witcher(Netflix). It’s by turns funny, exciting, scary,…
Europe’s emerging energy crisis
After the pandemic, is energy the next European crisis? Gas prices have hit new records, reaching $180 per barrel in…
The BBC’s mysterious missing Xinjiang evidence
Parliament has packed up for the holidays, with MPs and peers spending their final days in SW1 desperately dodging the…
Sturgeonomics would have crashed an independent Scotland
The Omicron variant is upon us, which means the return of the Scottish First Minister’s news conferences. These can be…
Sage modellers start to accept that Omicron is milder
Public health officials in Britain and South Africa were on different planets for about a fortnight. While those in South Africa…
Mail exodus to The Times continues
The shenanigans at Northcliffe House have given Mr S much to write about in recent months. Whether it’s Geordie Greig’s…
Why doesn’t Liz Cheney mention January 6 to her voters?
Cockburn is eagerly anticipating a number of clashes in the 2022 midterm elections in under a year’s time. Chief among…
Sage memo makes the case for lockdown
On Monday, Covid restrictions were rejected after the cabinet debated the issue robustly for the first time since the pandemic…
It’s too late to save comedy from ‘cancel culture’
Will comedy become the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’? Dame Maureen Lipman fears as much. ‘Cancel culture, this cancelling, this…
One man’s campaign to protect free speech
Almost three years ago, I spoke on the phone to a man called Harry Miller. A Lincolnshire businessman, he’d just…
Are we living in the Matrix?
With the release of the fourth Matrix film this Christmas, the idea behind the original movie is once again being…
Mean Girls of the White House
President Joe Biden’s message to the unvaccinated is clear: you can’t sit with us! Biden claimed he was ushering in…
Bad boy: Bidens dump dog week before Christmas
They say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas. Clearly that’s another old adage Joe Biden no longer…
What happened to China’s missing tennis star?
Did a senior Chinese politician rape one of the country’s leading tennis stars? That certainly seemed to be the allegation…
SPI-M modellers: a response to our critics
In late November, scientists in South Africa and Botswana identified a new variant of the virus that causes Covid. This…
