World
There’s nothing outrageous about Johnson’s Christmas quiz
Since lockdown, the Mirror has had a good line on Tory lockdown hypocrisy scandals: Barnard Castle and the No. 10…
Sunday shows round-up: ‘It looks like’ Boris was breaking the law
If it looked like the Prime Minister was in trouble last week, it seems that was just the tip of…
Does Taiwan hold the answer to the lab leak theory?
It is nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) dismissed the possibility that the Covid 19 pandemic could have…
Boris Johnson’s Covid Christmas quiz
It’s hard to recall a more brutal set of Sundays for Boris Johnson. Today’s papers are dominated by ‘partygate’ in…
Poland’s abortion culture war is a battle for the country’s soul
This week it emerged that a hospital in the city of Białystok in Poland refused to grant an abortion to…
Interview: Rowan Williams on Wales, independence and the King Lear of Westminster
Rowan Williams is no stranger to politics. As Archbishop of Canterbury he was as comfortable criticising Tony Blair over Iraq…
The ethics of the Omicron travel ban
The Omicron variant had not even been named when the government’s reflexes sprung into almost involuntary reaction last month, and…
Why discord delights
Finding fault takes finesse. Oh, anybody can complain. We are a nation of complainers, carping at everything from breakfast vittles to late-night…
Vaccine passports may prove a pointless distraction from Omicron
Sajid Javid ditched vaccine passports when he became Health Secretary but he now has to bring them in again, albeit…
Julian Assange and the deep flaw in our extradition laws
You could almost hear the rejoicing in Whitehall on Friday morning when the High Court cleared the way for Julian…
Boris’s successor should be Rishi Sunak, not Liz Truss
Is the ball about to come loose at the back of the scrum? Though an imminent defenestration of Boris Johnson…
Is Vladimir Putin really willing to invade Ukraine?
Is Putin preparing to invade Ukraine? It certainly looks that way, with western intelligence agencies estimating this week that around…
The world is finally standing up for Aung San Suu Kyi
It may be an impossible task to restore Aung San Suu Kyi’s reputation, but Burma’s generals have made a sterling…
Make History Great Again!
Why don’t today’s children know more about history? In an age when information has never been easier to access, it’s…
No, the media doesn’t treat Biden worse than Trump
A Washington Post opinion writer believes that President Biden is receiving worse treatment from the media than Trump did. It…
Should we be scared of the Omicron variant?
Why is the government so scared of the Omicron variant? So far, most of the evidence we have for transmissibility…
Why Britain should not extradite Julian Assange
Julian Assange is facing extradition after the high court ruled there is no legal impediment to him facing espionage charges in…
Silence of the Jussie Smollett defenders
Some people say that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Nonsense. There is also the certainty that…
Ian Maxwell: Ghislaine thinks Epstein was murdered
Away from the shenanigans of Westminster, the details of Ghislaine Maxwell’s ongoing trial have been filling our national newspapers this…
Emily Ratajkowski is having her cake and eating it
After listening to an hour-and-a-half of Emily Ratajkowski talking about My Body I had to look up naked pictures of…
Whitehall hit by party cancellations
After a fraught few months, you’d have hoped the hard-pressed masters and mandarins of Whitehall could let their hair down with…
The economy was stagnant even before Plan B
The economy is tantalisingly close to returning to pre-pandemic levels, now just 0.5 per cent off recovery. But this last…
The three problems facing Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson may be celebrating the birth of a baby daughter but that doesn’t mean the pressure on him is…
Jussie Smollett and the rise of American hate hoaxing
So Jussie Smollett, the world’s most notorious hate hoaxer, has at last been found guilty of lying to the police. …
China is right to laugh at the west
Signs of the enervating weakness of the west’s governing elites aren’t that hard to find but the case of the…
