World
The banalisation of Islamist terror bodes badly for the West
Another day, another Islamist murder in France – this time, a 49-year-old policewoman fatally stabbed in the neck by a…
It’s time to scrap the Best Actress Oscar award
If you tune in to the Oscars during the early hours of Monday morning, you’ll note – along with sickly…
The vaccines worked. We can safely lift lockdown
We are writing as scientists and scholars concerned about the confused and contradictory directions currently being promoted in the management…
Why do we envy nomads but treat Travellers so badly?
Oh for the open road! Who doesn’t want to abandon the suffocating suburbs – waking to an alarm at the…
Britain is not America
‘If people in Wales had access to as much media coverage of decisions that affected Wales as they do of…
Beijing’s agents tried to recruit me on LinkedIn
‘We are an international headhunter company, your profile attracted me,’ began the remarkable message I received on LinkedIn. My newfound interlocutor,…
Will the Vanuatu tribes now worship Prince Charles?
In the days after the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, there was much eagerness to hear from a particular group of royal…
‘Collective’ shines a light on Romania’s deadly corruption problem
A gripping Romanian documentary has made history as the country’s first film ever to be nominated for an Oscar in…
Boris’s vaccine propaganda film jumps the gun
Westminster’s much anticipated summer blockbuster dropped last night: ‘A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story’ was released on 10…
Olympics’ organisers could regret banning ‘taking the knee’
Knee-taking and fist-raising protests have been banned at the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee warning athletes who flout the rules…
The strange tale of NEOM: Saudi Arabia’s struggling desert megacity
Prince Mohammed bin Salman is desperate to shake Saudi Arabia’s addiction to oil. Its price has still not recovered from…
In praise of the LGB Alliance
Once upon a time an organisation was established to campaign for gay and lesbian rights. They faced opposition from the…
George Floyd was a victim of American gun culture
The triple guilty verdict on Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd was greeted with general relief across the…
Failure falls upward for John Kerry
Former defense secretary Robert Gates once wrote that President Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and…
Cummings’ attack spells big trouble for Boris
When Number 10 briefed newspapers on Thursday that Dominic Cummings was the source of leaks of the Prime Minister’s text…
Putin steps back from the Ukrainian brink
After weeks building up forces in Crimea and close to the Ukrainian border — over 100,000, all told — Moscow…
Merkel’s vaccine nationalism threatens India
You might have thought that Europe’s leaders would be wary of handing Brussels greater powers, given the various mishaps of the…
London’s mayoral election is an embarrassment
Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…
Number 10 should fear a Welsh nationalist coalition
As Disraeli’s famous maxim goes: England does not love coalitions. In Wales, by contrast, we can’t get enough of them.…
How the Tories can tackle generational inequality
Covid is far more fatal for the old than the young. But it is the young who have borne the…
Distorting the news to inflame the mob
NBC’s flagship news program completely garbled one of the week’s top stories: a deadly fight among teenage girls in Columbus,…
Scotland cannot be held in the Union against its will
Adam Tomkins’ suggestion that the UK should morph from a consent-based union of equals into a constitutional forced marriage contains…
Can Boris Johnson’s green makeover woo red wall voters?
COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference due to be held in Glasgow, isn’t until November, but work is already…
The geriatic wokeness of Joe Biden
Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, has never been able to keep his mouth shut. Throughout his…
What the fight against HIV can teach us about defeating Covid-19
In the eighties, we were warned to beware an easily spread, deadly virus. The government’s ominous HIV adverts told us…
