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How has Britain avoided a recession?
For the past 18 months, the UK economy has been stuck in the purgatory of an eternally predicted but non-arriving…
Poland’s rejection of conservatism isn’t quite as it seems
Poland looks set to head into a month of intense coalition-building. The exit poll for the country’s parliamentary election on…
Netanyahu’s greatest failure
Over the weekend, the IDF confirmed that it killed the Hamas terrorist who commanded the attack on Israel a week…
Is New Zealand about to return to the world stage?
After six years of Labour party rule in New Zealand, the country’s foreign policy brings to mind the line about…
France’s teachers are scared
Rarely has the publication of a book been so providential. The Teachers Are Scared was released in France last Wednesday,…
Can we be honest about Israel and Palestine?
Qui tacet consentire videtur: who keeps silent is seen to consent. That Latin tag haunts the western response to the…
Law and Justice has lost. Where does Poland go now?
If it continues to hold, the likely electoral victory of Poland’s opposition last night is good news for all those…
Britain is not a technocracy
The term ‘technocracy’, or more often ‘technocrat’, is found everywhere. Both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are referred to as…
Israel is trapped in a dilemma
Hamas’s attack was designed to massacre as many civilians as possible, while also striking at Israeli military posts along the…
Why Australia’s Voice vote failed
Since 1999, asking how many referendums Australia has had – then how many have passed – has been a pair…
Ireland’s troubling response to the Israel attacks
It’s a widely known secret within Israeli diplomatic circles that Ireland is seen as something of a lost cause. While…
Israel’s war with Gaza has exposed China’s impotence
Only last week, China was pushing itself forward to be the regional eminence grise in the Middle East, the powerbroker…
The unstoppable rise of the locum doctor
The career trajectory for doctors used to be relatively simple. After graduating, you would step on the conveyer belt of…
Where did all the boomer bankers go?
There aren’t many Alex types in banking anymore. The popular middle-aged cartoon banker, greyer and greyer since the 1980s, is…
The crushing defeat of Australia’s divisive Voice referendum
Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, urged his fellow Australians to take ‘the opportunity to make history’ today. And they did,…
An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza
On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…
How the National party toppled Labour in New Zealand
Just three years on from Jacinda Ardern’s phenomenal outright victory, New Zealand’s Labour government has collapsed, slumping to half its…
Why did Australia vote No in the Voice referendum?
I’m in Sydney for the Voice referendum result and was ready to settle in and watch the declarations for each…
Humza Yousaf has irreparably damaged the independence project
As the SNP gathers for its conference in Aberdeen this weekend, Humza Yousaf faces a sea of trouble. But worst…
Israel is a country of lions led by donkeys
Israelis were turning against the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu even before Hamas’s invasion. Over the last six months, tens…
Australia’s Voice referendum is tearing the country apart
Almost 250 years after European settlement, many of Australia’s Aborigines still face appalling socio-economic disadvantages compared to fellow Australians: lower…
Sinn Fein’s troubling ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians
Black Mountain, which looms above West Belfast, acts as a blank canvas for Irish republicans to plaster their thoughts across.…
Does the Native American case for reparations add up?
The University of Minnesota is at the centre of a battle for Native American reparations. The university sits on tens…
Is sumo wrestling dying out?
For any young athletes harbouring ambitions of being a sumo wrestler, there was some good news this week. The Japanese…
It can happen at Harvard
How did we get to the point that on numerous American campuses devoted to “social justice,” many student groups openly…
