World
Milwaukee is a victory for Silicon Valley’s shadow state
The real venue for the Democratic National Convention will not be Milwaukee, but the online platforms that will facilitate and…
The exams U-turn is an act of damage limitation
After a bruising few days for Boris Johnson and his ministers over the grading system for A-levels and GCSEs, the…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
Get ready for the return of the Iran Deal
The Trump administration has the first successful foreign policy of any administration since that of George H.W. Bush. It must…
The government should have trusted schools on A-levels
On Friday 20 March, I had an email exchange with a friendly professor at a top university. He confirmed that his…
Why Keir Starmer is failing against Boris Johnson
The way to beat Boris Johnson is to offer a stark contrast to his political persona. At all points radiate…
Coronavirus and the BBC’s anti-American bias
One keeps hearing, particularly on the BBC, that the United States is ‘the worst in the world’ for coronavirus, stated…
Public Health England scrapped over handling of Covid crisis
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to scrap Public Health England (PHE), according to the Sunday Telegraph – the body that was…
Kamala Obama?
Kamala Harris is no radical. Indeed, no matter how vaguely inclusive the label ‘progressive’ may be, Harris’s long record as…
Will health trump freedom in our post-coronavirus world?
Bernard Henri Levy’s latest book, The Virus in the Age of Madness, contains a striking quote from Rudolf Virchow, the 19thcentury…
What lies behind the Japanese obsession with face masks?
If there is one country where the wearing of face masks in response to the coronavirus outbreak has caused no…
What price is too high in the war against Covid?
Wars reshape states. The powers and size of governments grow. Economic activity is controlled or subsidised. Liberties are curtailed. Identity…
Tom Wolf, king of distraction
Cockburn’s old compadre, Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis, stirred up the internet mob again this week when she dared…
India-Pakistan relations have reached rock bottom
Seventy-three years ago on 15 August, the nation of India awoke, in the immortal words of its first prime minister…
Was Sweden’s refusal to lockdown a gruesome mistake?
Was there ever a jury destined to spend so long over its deliberations as the one considering whether Sweden made…
Europe’s shameful silence on Belarus
I last saw Minsk, my home town, in June 2019. There was no hint of what was to come: Belarussians…
What explains the rising number of children with gender issues?
I have recently read a fascinating new paper, via a Mail on Sunday report, about the growing number of children…
Keir Starmer would be wise to avoid a Lib Dem alliance
The myth that is developing goes like this: Labour can’t win enough seats to form a majority government at the…
Smash the system: universities and the rise of market Stalinism
As a new generation of school leavers now consider their options on the basis of predicted A-levels and Highers, what…
The joyous Israel-UAE peace deal
There is a time for war and a time for peace, Ecclesiastes tells us. Joyously, in the middle of a…
Exclusive: half of Americans support Trump bypassing Congress for COVID relief
More than half of registered voters support President Trump using executive action to bypass Congress and extend coronavirus relief measures,…
Will Trump win Minnesota?
Sen. Amy Klobuchar may have to eat her words after declaring last year that Donald Trump will ‘never win Minnesota’.…
The UAE-Israel deal is a triumph of Trump’s personal diplomacy
The American-brokered opening of full relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel is a rare outbreak of peace and…
The Israel-UAE peace deal was made in Iran
The last time I was in Israel people were preparing for the worst. ‘This crazy bastard is going to annex…
