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China’s zero-Covid policy is becoming unsustainable
With just three weeks until the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Covid-19 is creeping ever closer to the…
The Netherlands is growing tired of lockdown restrictions
On Wednesday at De Kleine Komedie, the oldest theatre in Amsterdam, the sound of comics on stage will be interspersed…
Fresh fears over parliamentary police
It’s been a pretty dreadful week for security at the Palace of Westminster. First, there was the admission that a…
Novak Djokovic’s arrogance was his downfall
The Australian government’s decision to cancel the world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic’s visa was inevitable in the end.…
Does the world want America ‘back’?
American foreign-policy strategists used to promulgate doctrines. Now they dream up slogans. ‘America is back’ is the jingle under which…
Austria is becoming a nightmare for the unvaccinated
Salzburg, Austria Across Austria, the streets are alive with the sounds of drums and cow bells. Ever since the Austrian…
Boris’s biggest mistake was taking his allies for granted
It is often said that there are few convinced ‘Boris-ites’ to be found among the ranks of Conservative MPs and…
The battle for ‘based’
Earlier this week, a pair of right-libertarian journalists announced the launch of their new site, BASEDPolitics. All hell promptly broke…
Will the media ever be honest about Joe Biden?
Joe Biden usually likes being compared to Donald Trump. During the 2020 presidential campaign the media often contrasted the two…
Ted Cruz’s glorious about-face on January 6
Despite the best efforts of the media, the Democrats, and Liz Cheney, the Capitol protests of January 6 refuse to…
Boris’s dwindling bunch of supporters must now come clean
Oh for heaven’s sake, come off it. British politics has long had a comfortable relationship with the absurd but this…
James Treadwell and the true meaning of ‘cancel culture’
There’s an inherent contradiction at the heart of liberal thinking that perpetually raises its head. It’s one which has become…
‘We failed’: Denmark’s media is waking up to its flawed Covid coverage
‘We failed’. An editorial in Ekstra Bladet, Denmark’s leading tabloid, berates the Fourth Estate – including itself – for failing to…
Will Britain now take the threat of Chinese espionage seriously?
The UK has long been aware of the risk of cyber-attacks emanating from China. Back in 2007, the head of…
Joe Biden’s voting rights smears
President Joe Biden delivered one of the most demagogic speeches of any modern president on Tuesday. You might say it…
Britain is finally waking up to China’s influence operations
The biggest surprise in Thursday’s security warning about a Chinese agent seeking to influence British politicians is that it came…
The truth behind Jen Psaki’s whataboutism
President Joe Biden delivered one of the worst and most widely condemned speeches of his presidency earlier this week in…
The meritocrat and the aristocrat
What a pair are Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew — like peanut butter and petroleum jelly, like pepper and road…
Prince Andrew’s royal excommunication is complete
Prince Andrew has been well and truly cut adrift. By his only family. From birth, he was styled His Royal…
The decline and fall of Prince Andrew
The final judgement, when it came, was phrased with admirable economy. This evening’s statement from Buckingham Palace said simply that:…
Will anyone stand by Prince Andrew now?
Well, at least someone’s having a worse week than Boris Johnson. For the Queen has announced this afternoon that Prince Andrew has…
In defence of Boris: would his replacement be any better?
Keir Starmer, aided and abetted by Boris Johnson’s many internal enemies within the Conservative party, has managed to get into…
Chinese spy suspect infiltrates parliament
As if there wasn’t enough drama in parliament today. Peers and MPs have just been warned that a suspected agent working for the…
Could this tree planting scheme bring down Israel’s prime minister?
Planting trees is not usually a controversial activity, especially in the eco-conscious twenty-first century. But as ever, the rules are…
Nicola Sturgeon’s disturbing attack on the rule of law
Lawyers with an awkward agenda can be a thorn in the government’s side in Scotland as much as in England.…
