World
The rise of vaccine virtue-signalling
I’ve bemoaned the ‘no Tories please’ line on dating profiles many a time. Closed-minded and over-used, it’s a banal way…
Ron DeSantis’s Big Tech crusade
Miami Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Monday to penalize Big Tech for de-platforming private citizens and political candidates.…
Beijing’s plan to pick the next Dalai Lama
Imagine for a moment that Cuba picked the next Pope. That is the scenario which Lobsang Sangay, the then-Sikyong (the…
Why Lukashenko keeps getting away with it
The diversion of a Ryanair flight bound for Lithuania from Athens and the arrest of passenger Roman Protasevich – an…
Why Beijing doesn’t think the EU investment deal is dead
Is the EU-China investment deal dead? It was last week sunk down by 599 votes to 30 in the European…
Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot
The tale of Tala Halawa has an ever-mounting horror to it: each sentence is more disturbing than the last. First…
Covid sufferers aren’t the only victims of the pandemic
Covid deaths are down to a trickle, but what about the indirect consequences of the pandemic: deaths that come from…
Why is a Jewish lecturer being investigated for mocking Corbyn?
It’s a tale worthy of Kafka. Dr Pete Newbon, a lecturer in humanities at Northumbria University, is being investigated by…
In praise of the Batley binmen
If you need someone to support your right to freedom of speech, forget the teaching unions. Don’t look to the…
What will Cummings say?
As the government puts the final touches to its social distancing review and Foreign Office ministers ponder the best response…
BBC journalist: ‘Hitler was right’
It has not been a happy week for the BBC. The corporation has spent the last four days grappling with…
How the BBC can save itself
All those esteemed generals of hindsight screeching ‘more governance’ as the cure to BBC’s cover-up of the Martin Bashir’s dishonesty…
Is it time to phase out the AstraZeneca vaccine?
We still await good data on the transmissibility of the Indian variants of Sars-CoV-2, something the government insists is vital…
Martin Bashir and the BBC’s line of duty
As fans of the BBC hit show Line of Duty know very well the ‘one rotten apple’ explanation for police…
Scotland’s next constitutional fight won’t be over a referendum
Get ready for a constitutional rammy during the first half of this, the sixth session of the Scottish parliament. Just…
The Capitol ‘armed insurrection’ narrative is crumbling
Will January 6 go down as another ‘day of infamy,’ an assault against America akin in its seriousness to December…
A nuclear crisis is closer than you think
It has long been widely accepted as orthodoxy that the world was saved from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile…
Pro-choice activists shouldn’t celebrate Roe v Wade
A striking curiosity of American life is that the names of legal cases can insinuate themselves into everyday dialogue. None…
Hamas doesn’t want a Palestinian state
Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no…
Boris’s Tory enemies don’t know how lucky they are
It is often said that most Conservative MPs have a highly ‘transactional’ relationship with Boris Johnson. The inference is that…
The disinformation war continues between Israel and Hamas
The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has started, and the gates to Gaza have opened for the international press. Now…
In praise of Kate Forbes’s Christian faith
Politics tends to attract people who consider themselves and their every mundane word and deed an example of great bravery.…
Kamala in charge
Who is the head of state? As president, Joe Biden has the sole and unlimited authority to determine US foreign…
How private should Prince Harry’s life be?
‘Never complain, never explain,’ the Cockburns say. Our family friend Prince Harry has a different motto: carry on moaning and show me the…
Does the border feel under control to you?
President Biden told NBC at the end of last month that the border crisis is ‘way down now; we’ve now…
