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Scotland’s chilling new blasphemy law
The new Hate Crime Bill proposed by the Scottish Government is a sweeping threat to freedom of speech and conscience.…
The Lib Dem leadership race is descending into farce
In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, the finer details of the contest to choose who will be the next leader…
Joe Biden’s broken record
‘Get your words straight, Jack!’ As Joe Biden campaigns for the Oval Office, the 77-year-old frequently recounts his five decades…
Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations
Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…
Coronavirus shows why it’s vital to distinguish sex and gender
The Covid-19 pandemic shows all too clearly the importance of data. Knowing that men and older people are more likely to…
How Number 10 should illustrate its Covid alert formula
Following the Prime Minister’s address last night, Twitter was ablaze with mockery of the equation the government will use to…
How government can learn from disasters
Soon enough, Congress will hold hearings to investigate the federal response to the Wuhan virus pandemic. It is almost a…
Britain could learn from France’s coronavirus approach
If there is a God, He’s not French. Last night I was on the balcony of my apartment in Paris…
Two big gaps in Boris Johnson’s lockdown statement
There were three messages in Boris Johnson’s address to the nation, and quite a lot of important gaps. The messages…
The R-number – and the danger of false certainty
Not much about Boris Johnson’s Sunday night television address was clear. The one definite new measure – one which will…
We should heed the world’s warnings about China
Mathias Döpfner is that still rare thing — an outspoken German. I have known him slightly for many years and…
Kayleigh McEnany’s media jujitsu
Kayleigh McEnany, President Trump’s new White House press secretary, has breathed new life into the briefing room and already proven…
Why is the EU sharing loopholes in its own anti-terror rules?
You know those stories about how the EU is banning busty barmaids or Bombay mix that turn out to have…
New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom
Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life. His approval ratings are through the roof and he’s being talked…
Ten reasons to end the lockdown now
Writing in this magazine a month ago, I applauded the government’s stated aim of trying to follow the science in…
Can we trust Neil Ferguson’s computer code?
Newspapers aren’t the place to debate expert advice on a crisis. Advisors advise, ministers decide. We should keep politics out…
Johnson’s honeymoon is well and truly over
When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions. This has been a week in which pretty…
Has Trump finally decided to dump Saudi?
In a dramatic move even by his own mercurial standards, Donald Trump has authorised the withdrawal of two Patriot missile…
Boris Johnson should be wary of comparisons with Churchill
Despite his carefully-crafted bumbling image, Boris Johnson is anything but daft. When vying to replace the apparently rootless Tory moderniser…
In defence of the British Empire
Is it my imagination, or are the whitened bones of the British Empire being yet again dug up and trampled…
My father is home at last
Today is my father, Robin Hanbury-Tenison’s, 84th birthday and miraculously he was able to wakeup in his own bed and…
Why Boris bashers like Jacinda Ardern
I’m starting to wonder if the people who unfavourably compare Britain’s Covid experience with New Zealand’s are being wilfully stupid.…
Britain must back the EU in its fight with German judges
Germany’s highest court has plunged more than just the European Central Bank into crisis with its ruling on the legality…
Flynnocent: why the general has a long way to go before justice is served
Just moments ago, the news came in that Department of, um, Justice has dropped its — ‘um’ again — Gen.…
Doctor rebuts NYT hit piece about Kushner’s coronavirus efforts
The doctor at the center of a New York Times story alleging Jared Kushner bungled the administration’s attempts to procure…
