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Whitehall’s Covid gloom could harm our economic recovery
As the government continues to put forward an extremely cautiousnarrative about re-opening, more evidence emerged today that the economy issurging…
How Australia was caught in lockdown limbo
Sajid Javid’s deleted weekend tweet about Britain ‘learning to live with, rather than cower from Covid’ upset just about everyone…
The Lib Dems’ Vince Cable China problem
Last night, Vince Cable appeared on Nigel Farage’s ‘Talking Pints’ segment on GB News. This, if you haven’t seen it,…
Why the Tories are losing support
Boris Johnson hoped to mark his two year anniversary with a series of big domestic policy announcements as part of…
It’s time to upgrade the office of the Welsh first minister
Some of the most revealing detail from newly released 1997 government files relate to Welsh constitutional affairs. The Home Office…
Boris’s crime crackdown will be harder than he thinks
Can crime be beaten with a beaten down police force? The government certainly hopes so. Today, the Prime Minister launched…
The danger of vaccine passports for education
In one sense vaccines are the perfect example of the ‘greater good’. Every citizen bears a tiny risk to protect…
Domestic violence affects us all
Since the first Covid-19 lockdown last year, cases of domestic abuse and subsequent deaths have risen. In England and Wales,…
Starmer faces a difficult summer
Like Covid data, polling data has a built-in time lag of several days. Those sifting the evidence on coronavirus typically…
The Lancet, China and the origins of coronavirus
Right from its first issue in 1823, the Lancet was more than just an ordinary medical journal. Its founding editor,…
Why Israel must win over its Arab population
Which Middle Eastern country offers the best life for Arabs? The answer, as they say, might surprise you. Take any…
The man behind Xi Jinping
At the height of the Cultural Revolution, over a billion copies of Mao’s Little Red Book were distributed across the…
Trouble for the US at the Woke-yo Olympics
Can Trumpists still believe in ‘America First’ if they root against America in the Olympics? Yes, apparently. The US team…
Can I join Marjorie Taylor Greene in Twitter jail?
Marjorie Taylor Greene held a press conference late last week. It took place inside, meaning the Jews with the space…
Australia proves the cost of zero Covid
The UK is growing at the fastest pace in 80 years. The United States, fuelled by President Biden’s stimulus programme,…
LSE students demand abolition of Hayek Society
Another day, another student fiasco. This time the scene of the crime is the London School of Economics and a…
Iran is running out of water
It’s far from an exact science, but if you want to get a sense of where the world is heading…
Britain’s creeping authoritarianism
When a top Edinburgh school announced earlier this month that it would stop teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, citing the…
The EU’s menacing rule of law power grab
Officially the European Union may be a union of sovereign states. But its Commission increasingly has the air of an…
Spain’s growing culture war over General Franco
There are hundreds of mass graves dotted around the Spanish countryside. In roadside ditches, down hillside gullies, dumped in pits…
Are the Japanese finally embracing the Tokyo Olympics?
Such gloom and negativity has surrounded the Tokyo Olympics that cynics were suggesting that, when the grand Olympic countdown clock…
How will Merkel cope with retirement?
Retirement sounds pretty nice. The ONS says that pensioners spend an average of seven hours and ten minutes a day on…
Covid cases are falling – but don’t think it’s all over
The official Covid-19 dashboard has turned green and cases appear to have peaked, at least for now. You hear a…
Emmanuel Macron’s dangerous infantilisation of the French
From St Tropez to La Rochelle to Deauville, there is a familiar sight this summer in many of France’s most…
Don’t fall for Rishi Sunak’s ‘Britcoin’
Do we need an officially-sanctioned, government-backed crypto-currency underwritten by sterling – a ‘Britcoin’ – as Rishi Sunak is said to…
