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London Labour youth wing calls for the abolition of Israel
Pro-Palestine rallies were held across the country at the weekend amid the deteriorating situation in the Middle East. Onetime Labour leader…
The Australian trade deal is about more than just trade
What happens with an Australia trade deal won’t just reveal how serious this country is about free trade but also…
Does getting Covid-19 protect you against reinfection?
How well does prior exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus protect you against reinfection? It has been a hotly-debated subject since…
Shame on the ‘free Palestine’ police officer
Picture the scene. A female police officer — hi-viz police jacket, regulation black hat, facemask slipping from her nose —…
What Greenpeace’s ‘Wasteminster’ stunt won’t tell you
Greenpeace has been responsible for many a fatuous stunt over the years, but its latest video has a point. It…
Neil Ferguson’s Indian variant optimism: ‘the curves are flattening’
Amid much gloom in Westminster over the threat posed by the new Covid Indian variant, Mr S was intrigued to…
Germany’s growing extremism problem
On 2 June 2019, a German politician was found lying in a pool of blood outside his home in Hesse.…
Andy Burnham is Labour’s king over the water
There are few things so perilous for an under-performing opposition leader as the emergence of a ‘king over the water’.…
Biden’s bogey
President Joe Biden hit the golf course for the second time since taking office on Sunday, continuing something of an…
The fatal flaw in the Covid travel restrictions
Here are two Covid questions, thrown up by the rate at which the Indian variant is infecting parts of the…
Through the Keirhole: Starmer plots TV drama
Pitch: a struggling politician eager to make his mark. He’s 10 points behind in the polls, leading a fractitious party and struggling…
British MPs are finally engaging with the gender identity debate
I used to write a lot about sex and gender here. I don’t do so quite as much these days…
Boris must stand up to farmers – and back the Australia trade deal
Farms will be devastated. The countryside will be ruined. And we will all be forced to eat weird food that…
The decline and fall of the Associated Press
Once, long ago, in a land far away, the best journalists tried to stand aloof from the stories they reported.…
Bill Gates isn’t a creep. He’s a beta.
Won’t you spare a thought for poor William Henry Gates III? For most of America, the collapse of one’s marriage…
Bibi is back
Is Benjamin Netanyahu’s time up? A fortnight ago, it seemed so. Netanyahu’s mandate for forming a coalition expired. The opportunity was handed instead…
Greens team up with Tories to kill the ‘progressive alliance’
There has been much talk in recent years about the prospect of a so-called ‘progressive alliance’ coming together to lock…
Richard Dawkins’ views on Down’s syndrome aren’t a surprise
Irish radio host Brendan O’Connor is not interested in having an emotional discussion. He’s just curious: if a man of…
Liz Cheney has lost her fight against Trump but might win the war
When Liz Cheney, the single US House Representative for the state of Wyoming, was sacked as chair of the Republican…
Mad money
‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself,’ said Franklin D. Roosevelt famously, at his first inauguration in the depths…
The world’s unluckiest anti-racist: Corbyn’s greatest hits
Rallies for Palestine were held across the country this weekend which meant of course a starring role for one Jeremy…
Sweden, Covid and lockdown – a look at the data
Over the last year, the debate about lockdown has been driven to extremes – everyone has, by now, made up their…
The rapid rise of Pascal Blanchard, Macron’s favourite diversity tsar
In October last year Emmanuel Macron had a long list of around 300 to 500 names drawn up. These were no…
Is it time for Keir Starmer to forget about uniting his party?
Campaigning to become Labour leader last year, Keir Starmer said Harold Wilson was his favourite party leader of the last…
Glasgow’s immigration raid stand-off is nothing to celebrate
The rule of law is very simple: it means ‘everyone must obey the law’. Last year, much hay was made…
