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Germany’s canning of Nord Stream 2 will hit Putin hard
Vladimir Putin’s threats towards Ukraine have, in part, been an operation in stoking divisions throughout the West. As James Forsyth…
Sanctions won’t stop Putin
The Lithuanian prime minister, Ingrida Šimonyte, put it well yesterday: ‘the way we respond will define us for the generations to…
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is an own goal for Putin
Vladimir Putin does like to keep us guessing. While Western governments were warning in increasingly apocalyptic terms of a full-scale…
Will Putin now roll on to Kiev?
The White House told us with absolute certainty that there would be an invasion of Ukraine this week — instead…
The seismic importance of Putin’s latest move
Vladimir Putin has tonight unilaterally recognised the two breakaway republics in Ukraine. In doing so, he has effectively ended the…
Ending restrictions won’t save Boris
Boris Johnson certainly managed to rally the troops on their first day back from recess this afternoon as he told…
The Globe adds Shakespeare anti-Semitism warnings
Mr S enjoys a good show: many of the best dramas are to be found on the Westminster stage. After all, what…
Is an anti-Xi resistance emerging?
From the 1980s to 2017, at least every five years, China’s National Party Congress would be a moment of intriguing…
How the Ukraine crisis ends
Vladimir Putin does not think in the way the West does. Of course sanctions will hurt. But so what? He…
Get well soon, your Majesty
The news that the Queen had tested positive for Covid must have sent a shiver of dread down the spines…
What if we aren’t ready to live with Covid?
Quite the constitutional twist, yesterday. Just as what Walter Bagehot called the efficient side of our ruling set-up was merrily…
Will Boris Johnson’s big week be undone by partygate?
When Boris Johnson gave an interview on Sunday to the BBC’s Sophie Raworth, he was not keen to talk about…
China and Russia are an alliance of disruptors
Four years ago, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping made pancakes together in Vladivostok while thousands of their military forces conducted…
The cost of living
“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the…
The US and India in a new world
The world’s center of gravity is shifting to the Indo-Pacific. The new global order will be shaped by developments in…
The quiet rise of the other Asians
You don’t have to be obsessed with racial calculations to consider the possibility that the next presidential election in the…
Man flu is real
Over New Year’s, I came down with the Omicron. Or as I put it to my wife, civilization as I…
Mother’s milk is good for you
I had my first taste of breast milk after a training session at a garage gym. We swap tips and…
How conservatives concede the culture
Conservatives suffer from a short attention span, and it largely explains their defeats in the culture war. They fight every…
Why Glenn Greenwald backs Putin
Few things are sure in life: death, taxes and Glenn Greenwald advocating whatever position happens to be in the interests…
Welcome to MSNBC U
By the way the left drones on about disinformation, you would think that Trump-supporting boomer rubes were the only ones…
Does Vance have a chance?
Six short years ago, J.D. Vance penned a piece in the Atlantic comparing Donald Trump to opioids. “Trump’s promises are…
Britain is trapped in a Boomerocracy
‘If the young knew what was good for them’ the historian Niall Ferguson once remarked, ‘they’d join the Tea party’.…
The pointless tyranny of Italy’s Covid pass
While most European countries, especially Britain, are relaxing their Covid restrictions, Italy which has the toughest of the lot, this…
On Sage’s Covid models
In the confusion that has arisen from the demonstrable inability of a certain type of mathematical model to predict the…
