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The void at the centre of Britain’s net zero strategy
Boris Johnson wants to turn your house green. This week, he published the plan for doing it. In fact, the…
Does ‘white privilege’ exist?
On Wednesday Radio 4 aired a programme called White Mischief,which promised to trace ‘where whiteness came from and how its…
The media has a climate change blind spot
Are you someone who is delighted by the government’s eye-wateringly expensive commitment to deliver ‘net zero’ by 2035, or are…
Banning anonymity creates more problems than it solves
There are growing calls to end internet anonymity in the wake of Sir David Amess’s death. The Tory MP Mark…
COP26 hit by yet another strike
It’s just ten days to go before COP26, the green gathering described by Ed Miliband as ‘the most consequential summit that has ever…
The problem with the EU’s messianic treatment of Poland
Mateusz Morawiecki insists his government does not want to take Poland out of the EU. ‘Eighty-eight per cent of Poles…
Don’t worry: colleges are still insufferably woke post-COVID
Given the recent spate of “fuck Joe Biden” chants at college football games, you’d be forgiven for thinking that a…
Progressive scare tactics won’t work on Joe Manchin over Build Back Better
Are progressives serious about winning over Joe Manchin? If so, they’ve got a funny way of showing it. The Democratic senator…
Is Virginia’s Terry McAuliffe ‘losing it’?
Is Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe really “losing it”? Last week, McAuliffe snapped at a tracker who asked him…
America has few good options in Haiti
Haiti has never been known as a beacon of stability and tranquility. Most of its politicians are feckless, in league…
How concerning is the new Covid variant?
Should we worry about AY.4.2, the new Covid variant that has been in the news this week? The descendent of…
Trump’s never-ending ‘stolen election’ story damages America
Enough is enough. Yes, there were problems with last November’s election, but they have been litigated and audited for months.…
Why America’s social justice narratives always crash and burn
The wonderful thing about woke narratives is that you only have to wait a while until they collapse. The core…
Is inflation slowing?
Whatever happened to the inflation surge? Last month, when the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) surged to 3.2 per cent, the…
The death of David Amess has no easy answers
Why has the political debate following Sir David Amess’s killing moved so swiftly to focus on civility in politics? It’s…
Biological man scores historic first for women
The Biden administration announced Tuesday that Rachel Levine, the assistant secretary of health, will be sworn in as a four-star…
Let’s Go Brandon takes the charts by storm
It won’t surprise you to learn that Cockburn does not, generally speaking, listen to hip-hop. But he has been forced to…
How serious is the government about Net Zero?
The green agenda is leading the news today with Boris Johnson on a PR mission to sell his environmental plans…
What Prince William gets wrong about space travel
Time was when ‘to boldly go where no man has gone before’ was not just a line from Star Trek.…
Why does Boris Johnson keep on winning?
For his critics, Boris Johnson offends the notion that the British are a sensible people so deeply we feel we…
Here come the Nineties
Everyone is bullish on natural gas, but I think America’s most inexhaustible resource might be 1990s nostalgia. Every time it…
Blame Trump for Texas’s ban on vaccine mandates
Political brains detonated last week after Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new executive order that effectively banned vaccine mandates…
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
Rishi in, Keir out: 2020’s most popular baby names
Once the popularity of politicians was judged by how many babies they were asked to kiss – now it’s by…
The idiotic myth of the ‘lone wolf’ attack
In the summer of 2020 the French Senate published a report on the ‘Development of Islamist Radicalisation and the means…
