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Could the Lords reject Boris’s Brexit bill?
A senior Tory tells me the House of Lords will turn the Salisbury-Addison convention – which says the upper house…
Hollywood’s transrace hypocrisy
It is an article of fashionable faith that genetic differences in sex are meaningless and malleable, but genetic differences in…
The Oscars’ woke McCarthyism is a step too far
Normally the best response to political correctness at the Oscars is to laugh at it. Whether it’s Lady Gaga singing…
Starmer needs more than just competence
Keir Starmer went back to what he most enjoys at Prime Minister’s Questions: calling the government incompetent and demanding that…
Pakistan’s lockdown gamble appears to have paid off
Pakistan’s stock exchange isn’t typically seen as one of the world’s best, but in recent weeks it has outperformed almost…
Oxford’s vaccine delay has thrown the global race wide open
Even a politician as tenaciously optimistic as Matt Hancock was struggling to put any positive spin on it: the world…
The EU’s state aid hypocrisy
Another crucial period has begun in the Brexit saga. Boris Johnson has ruled out extending the transition stage beyond 1…
Israel is a true ally – it’s time Boris remembered that
Boris Johnson has described himself as ‘a passionate defender of Israel’ and, what’s more, ‘a life-long friend, admirer and supporter…
A Brexit question Boris Johnson must answer
The question for Boris Johnson is why he signed a Withdrawal Agreement that gives the EU the power to decide whether…
Here’s how the Covid nightmare could be over by Christmas
Matt Hancock has announced his ‘Moonshot’ project of achieving population-wide mass testing for Covid-19. He should be congratulated for this…
Macron’s Brexit swansong is about to unfold
At a solemn ceremony at the Panthéon to mark the 150th anniversary of the (re-)birth of the Republic, president Macron…
Woke capital is winning the left
Cockburn attempted to celebrate Labor Day by doing no work whatsoever, and he would have succeeded if his friends hadn’t…
Kim Klacik and the urban GOP effort
Baltimore Republicans are an oddity in Baltimore. Perhaps some older Americans remember Spiro Agnew, but that’s more or less it…
Starmer sketches out a Brexit position
As Boris Johnson comes under fire from his own MPs over his potentially unlawful Brexit plans, Keir Starmer has made his…
Boris Johnson’s Brexit dilemma
The penny seems to have belatedly dropped for Boris Johnson. He can have a no-trade-deal relationship with the European Union…
Is Trump’s campaign running out of cash?
You can tell something about a campaign by the desperation-levels of its fundraising emails. In recent weeks, Team Trump’s digital…
Disney’s Mulan is everything Xi Jinping could wish for
The last year has seen a litany of corporates bend the knee to the mighty Chinese Communist party. From HSBC’s…
Are we really seeing a second European spike?
You’ve probably seen the graphs, cases are way up in France, even higher than the first wave, and yet deaths…
How the Tories can stop the SNP’s hate crime bill
Free speech concerns about the SNP’s Hate Crime Bill have been mounting for months now, so it was inevitable that…
Ripping up the Withdrawal Agreement is a big mistake
Like most things Brexit related, it depends on who you believe. The EU is concerned over the announcement that the…
Does Catalonia really want independence?
In 1714, after a long siege, Spain managed to regain control of Barcelona after the War of Spanish Succession. Catalan…
The Atlantic twists the truth
The Atlantic has stunk up an otherwise beautiful Labor Day weekend with a uniquely ugly story. Anti-Trump editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claims that…
The vaccine goalposts have shifted
British Health Secretary Matt Hancock provided a vaccine update this morning London time, reporting that the chances of the Oxford…
Identity politics and the erosion of liberalism
A new kind of politics has taken root, righteous intimidation. Occasional outbursts of violent outrage are not new, but today…
Covid-19 and the end of clinical medicine as we know it
When we trained at medical school we were taught to approach each patient on his or her own merits. We…
