World
Has Xi Jinping overplayed his hand?
The Chinese Communist party’s origin story, like so many of its official lines, appears to be an apocryphal tale. But…
How the BBC put Bill Clinton in prison
Yesterday the US comedian Bill Cosby left prison, after the Philadelphia Supreme Court overturned his conviction for sexual assault in…
The embarrassing and pathetic Vogue profile of Dr Jill Biden, EdD
It’s a good thing that Vogue’s nauseating profile of Jill Biden — sorry, I mean Dr Jill Biden, EdD — wasn’t…
How Boris Johnson plans to reopen the country
Next week, the government will set out what the reopening will look like. I understand that the current plan is…
How Germany’s law-breaking undermined the EU
Well over a year ago I wroteabout how Germany had broken both the EU treaty and so international law, when…
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
What kind of man was Donald Rumsfeld? A successful one, by almost every measure. Ivy League scholar-athlete, captain of Princeton’s…
The growing cult of ‘Dada’ Xi Jinping
In a defiant speech to mark the Communist party’s centenary today, Xi Jinping warned foreign powers they would ‘have their…
The UN’s American obsession
Under other circumstances I wouldn’t mind living in the American empire here in Britain. The tithes are reasonable and the…
Oxfam’s strange obsession with ‘whiteness’
Remember when it was considered wrong for workplaces to harangue their employees about their racial origins? Ah, those were the…
New York election officials keep it stupid
For decades, the American Idol and Eurovision TV talent shows have calculated millions of votes during commercial breaks with barely…
Poll: 2019 Tories still backing Boris
It’s by-election day in Batley and Spen tomorrow. The only constituency polling done in the West Yorkshire seat suggests that the Tories…
Who killed Ashli Babbitt?
Who shot Ashli Babbitt, the pro-Trump Air Force veteran who was killed by police during the January 6 riot at…
The infrastructure Trojan horse
The official Twitter account of VOX Madrid, the local chapter of a Spanish political party, noted a funny and familiar…
Tucker versus the Deep State
Tucker Carlson is at war with the National Security Agency, and it makes great TV. Two nights running, the Fox…
The sausage war ceasefire is a good sign for UK-EU relations
The sausage dispute between the UK and the EU may sound like something out of Yes Minister but it is…
The Covid battle Sajid Javid still has to face
Despite the humiliation of Matt Hancock’s exit, Sajid Javid, the new Secretary of State for Health, might in fact find…
The EU is stoking the culture war between East and West
Other EU countries ‘should not interfere in the affairs of Hungary,’ Czech president Miloš Zeman said on Sunday in support of…
The strange religiosity of Covid compliance
Something has gone badly wrong with the Established Church when it appears more indignant at the breaking of social distance…
Is communism authoritarian capitalism?
On July 1, 1921, the founding congress of the Chinese Communist party was held in Shanghai, when 12 men gathered in…
What do Extinction Rebellion have against a free press?
One can only hope that the profound political thinkers of Extinction Rebellion took care not to dump cow manure on…
Should we be mixing AstraZeneca and Pfizer shots?
To date, the Covid vaccination programme in Britain has involved two doses of one of three vaccines – AstraZeneca, Pfizer…
How much longer can the Treasury rig the housing market?
The past 15 months have produced a bizarre economic paradox. In 2020, the economy shrank at the fastest rate recorded…
Will the American media stand up for Hong Kong before it’s too late?
On October 1 of last year, the New York Times printed an op-ed from Regina Ip, executive council and legislative…
What does Starmer actually stand for?
The biggest reason Keir Starmer has proved a flop is not that he leads an unelectable rabble, or that Labour’s…
The economic illiteracy of anti-capitalists
Back in October, World Bank chief economist Carmen Reinhart recommended that countries borrow heavily during the pandemic. ‘First, you worry…
