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The mendacity of Joe Biden’s address to Congress
John Maynard Keynes is alleged to have said ‘When the facts change, I change my mind — what do you…
Exclusive: Biden admin sending 500 USDA employees to assist with border crisis
The Biden administration is asking US Department of Agriculture employees to abandon their day jobs and volunteer for months-long stints…
Who would want to replace Arlene Foster?
Arlene Foster has announced that she will be standing down as DUP leader on the 28 May and First Minister…
Has Britain reached herd immunity?
When the Office for National Statistics released the last antibody survey a fortnight ago, the results were underwhelming. After watching…
A politician’s guide to non-denial denials
Michael Gove was deployed to the Commons on Monday afternoon to answers questions on the ministerial code, an hour-long appearance…
Is France losing its war on terror?
A political storm has swept France in recent days. It follows the publication of an open letter by twenty retired…
How concerned should we be by the Indian variant?
In recent weeks there has been a lot of new-found optimism in Britain with regards to Covid: case numbers, hospitalisations…
Tucker Carlson…unmasked
It’s a day that ends in -y, which means there is some execrably stupid dust-up involving Tucker Carlson. Have you…
The Beijing Winter Olympics boycott is doomed
In 2022, the Winter Games will descend on Beijing, China’s polluted capital, giving everyone that weren’t we just here? feeling. The world…
How to hold a credible referendum on Scottish independence
Whatever happens in the Scottish Parliament elections on May 6, Westminster should apply new thinking to all future referendums in…
Are plans to abandon the office premature?
To what extent will our pandemic lifestyles stick? With ‘work from home’ guidance in place for the best part of…
Why isn’t the West standing up for the Czech Republic?
The discovery by Czech intelligence services that a bombing of an ammunitions and weapons depot in 2014 that killed two…
Grand Old Problem
The Republican party is in ‘the wilderness’, as insufferable political analysts describe the wholly normal phenomenon of a party being…
No wonder viewers are boycotting the Oscars
The Oscars are in trouble. People are switching off in their millions. A paltry 9.85m Americans tuned in to the…
Can Labour make the Tory sleaze allegations stick?
One of the reasons the row isn’t fading about Tory sleaze allegations and the Prime Minister’s conduct is that there…
Afghanistan — the long defeat
In announcing his decision to withdraw all remaining US troops from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared that ‘it’s time to…
Why the Cummings row won’t harm Boris
It’s hard not to agree with those who believe that Boris Johnson, forced into the second Covid-19 lockdown, did say the…
Joe Biden’s skewed climate change priorities
It’s not hard to see why politicians like Joe Biden and Boris Johnson want to talk about climate change. First…
How terror took over the African continent
Eight law enforcement officials, including three policemen and five members of a local anti-jihadist force, were killed in a jihadist…
Does anyone doubt Boris’s leaked ‘bodies’ comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Joe Biden is letting India down
With 40 percent of the population vaccinated, a palpable sense of normalcy has returned to America. The young are now…
How China is stoking America’s racial tensions
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
Why I’m all in for Caitlyn for Governor
Gird your loins and grab your betting guides: there is to be a California recall election! Angry Golden Staters have…
Bioreactors and the art of manufacturing a Covid vaccine
When Covid struck and the quest for a vaccine began, the team at Oxford had a head start in that…
What Europe can learn from Greece’s alliance with Israel
In the 21st chapter of his magisterial 1948 history of the Second World War, Winston Churchill began with an arresting…
