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Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
New polling: Half of Brits think Scotland will break away
Boris Johnson is desperate to avoid becoming the prime minister who oversees the break-up of the Union, yet it appears many…
China disappears at the DNC
Members of media hailed the all-digital Democratic National Convention and convention coordinator Stephanie Cutter, the former Obama adviser famous for…
We’re stuck in a coronavirus time warp
There is actually some good news emerging from the tragic gloom of the Covid-19 epidemic. Despite some relaxation of lockdown…
It’s time for Imran Khan to accept Israel is here to stay
‘Our stand on Israel is clear,’ Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan said this week. ‘We cannot recognise Israel until Palestinians…
Brexit blame game as latest talks stall
Despite Boris Johnson’s call for Brexit negotiations to speed up, the seventh round of talks has today ended with little progress. Neither side…
Sleepy no more: Joe Biden unmasked
It was like an Elvis sighting. ‘WHERE’S HUNTER,’ Trump kept bellowing in his tweets. Well, there was the recently reclusive…
Joe Biden offers platitudes, not policies
Joe Biden’s speech was effective in many ways and sure to please his supporters. But anyone who expected him to…
Joe Biden’s Republican Convention
Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts.…
It’s a mistake to think all positive Covid tests are the same
Italy was the first country in Europe to implement lockdown, so what can we learn from the country’s attempt to…
Could Giorgia Meloni become Italy’s first female PM?
Last summer, a bare-chested Matteo Salvini, leader of the right-wing League and interior minister at the time, roamed the trendiest…
Lukashenko has learned to ignore the EU’s empty threats
On Belarus, the EU has been eager to talk the talk. But it has been slower to walk the walk.…
Joe Biden’s DNC speech
Good evening. Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: give people light and…
That dreary Bloomberg speech cost him $18 million
There’s an infamous anecdote from an old New York magazine story, in which then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived at…
Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?
‘Have you guys been following 4Chan?’ asks Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 2017 video. A mysterious ‘patriot’ named ‘Q’, Greene…
The Michelle Obama Podcast is wholesome, intimate and suspiciously vague
Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew…
Does Steve Bannon’s arrest hurt the Trump re-election effort?
Oops. Not only did the wall that Donald Trump promised to build never get built, but it turns out that…
Why Britain is seen as the Kremlin’s greatest foe
Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny is, as of writing, fighting for his life, hooked to a ventilator…
How No. 10 outsmarted Alastair Campbell
LBC broadcaster Iain Dale has moved his Edinburgh Festival ‘All Talk’ series to Zoom, and yesterday he spoke to Alastair…
Who do Democrats want to be?
In 2004, Democratic senator Zell Miller spoke to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Focusing on the wars…
Is this the end of the line for public transport?
News that rail fares are to rise by 1.6 per cent in January, and public transport fares in London by…
Justin Trudeau’s prorogation memory loss
A prime minister better known for his charisma than his policy achievements proroguing parliament to ride out a political storm.…
The truth about the migrant crisis isn’t what you think
Home Secretary Priti Patel visited the port of Dover last week to gee up the beleaguered Border Force and offer words…
‘Republicans’ at the DNC
The Democratic Zoomvention is nearly complete. Cutting away all the pageantry typical of a party convention has done a great…
The poisoning of Putin critic Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, the most important opposition leader in Russia, is unconscious in hospital after drinking poisoned tea on an airplane.…
