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Alexei Navalny is getting under the Kremlin’s skin
Only half a year ago the opposition leader Alexei Navalny was a non-person on Russian state media, and Putin’s opulent…
The worth of the ‘word as a Biden’
What’s the worth of the ‘word as a Biden’? President Joe Biden seems sure that his family name is as…
The EU’s vaccine opportunism will not be forgotten
At first, it sounded like empty rage. The European Union had spent all week making wild statements about controlling vaccine…
Why do Innocent drinks think this pensioner is guilty of ‘transphobia’?
The trans debate can be a nasty one. And when women (and it usually is women) have the courage to speak…
Could this drug offer immediate protection from Covid-19?
When Donald Trump returned to the White House after a brief spell in hospital with Covid-19 last October he made…
Who are the Reddit traders?
The anarchic traders of Reddit stunned stock-markets this week, boosting the share price of struggling retailer GameStop by some 400…
The Johnson & Johnson jab is a game changer
Good vaccine news has been pouring in today — this afternoon it was the turn of the Janssen vaccine, made by US…
Are Biden voters sick and tired of winning yet?
It goes without saying that reading mainstream American news has become both pointless and profoundly depressing since the election of…
Joe Biden, high priest of the cult of woke
‘Do you think he died of dispossession?’ That’s the facetious question the nameless hero of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible…
Germany has just undermined the EU’s vaccine argument
Germany’s vaccine committee has advised the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine only be given to under-65s. The announcement marks a major twist in a…
Is the virus retreating?
Imperial College’s React study was in the news again this morning. The latest instalment swabbed 167,642 people between 6 and…
How the EU vaccine row could escalate
The EU is now insisting that AstraZeneca use vaccine produced at its UK site to make up for a shortfall in…
Oligarchy in America
The fog of the Trump wars is lifting, the road from COVID-19 rising before us, the outlines of the 21st-century…
Impeachment 2.0 is another silly sham
Rand Paul just made the most bracing speech of his career. It was about the absurdity of the new effort…
Inside the Dutch anti-lockdown riots
Images of Dutch rioters throwing stones and fireworks at police, looting shops and facing water cannon have been published all…
Who will replace Rob Portman in the Senate?
With Rob Portman’s announcement that he will not seek a third term in the US Senate, the two questions of…
Did Boris Johnson do ‘everything he could’ to limit Covid deaths?
Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty and Simon Stevens held a very sombre press conference in Downing Street this evening to mark…
Trans activists are hounding women out of public life
The New Year Honours list included an OBE for Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex.…
Is the EU to blame for AstraZeneca’s vaccine shortage?
The important difference between AstraZeneca’s relationship with the UK and its relationship with the EU – and the reason it…
The uncomfortable truth about Black Lives Matter, Malcolm X and anti-Semitism
Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King delivered a speech to 50,000 Americans in which he demanded justice for persecuted Jews…
The final humiliation of Rudy Giuliani
Poor Rudy Giuliani. Kellyanne Conway has her daughter accusing her of abuse on TikTok, yet somehow Rudy may be the…
The human costs of an ‘Australian-style’ quarantine system
Richard Curtis’ iconic Love Actually airport scenes may fall on the wrong side of saccharine, but they capture something of…
Drinking my way through the Capitol riots
What would you do if the world was ending? I suppose I would be somewhere drinking. At least, that’s what…
Is this the key to understanding Covid immunity?
Just how strong an immunity do Covid patients develop after they have acquired the infection and how long does it…
Why we should worry about the censorship of the far left
There are many important, principled arguments for free speech. But one of the most convincing is purely tactical. Why empower…
