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Boris has tightened his iron grip on government
This is the LDC reshuffle: loyalty, discipline and competence. Number 10 wants to ensure this government is all singing from the same…
Lisa Nandy is the best of a bad bunch
If Labour had chosen Liz Kendall instead of Jeremy Corbyn in 2015, she’d be prime minister by now. She was…
Reports of the death of the Biden campaign have been greatly exaggerated
Joe Biden has blown it. His era is over. The obsequies for his campaign are pouring in. Michael Hirsh in Foreign…
Is Trump scared of Crazy Bernie?
Manchester, New Hampshire Democrats almost all agree that Donald Trump is ruining America and must be removed from the White…
The Pope rebuffs his liberal supporters by rejecting married priests
Pope Francis today issued his official response to October’s ‘Amazon Synod’, which discussed a plan to ordain married men in…
Where was the media on this act of political violence?
The media frets constantly that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric will lead to violence against Democrats and even — the horror!…
Is the Labour leadership contest already a done deal?
Labour’s leadership contest has been attracting less and less media interest as it goes on. Despite this, Jeremy Corbyn’s successor…
Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren were the losers in New Hampshire
During his first run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders won big in New Hampshire.…
Good riddance to Yang — and Biden
Now that ‘entrepreneur’ Andrew Yang has ended his presidential campaign, can we all admit what a sad commentary on the…
Bernie wins New Hampshire — and Klobuchar replaces Warren as the race’s leading lady
Two big stories have emerged from New Hampshire. The first is not surprising: Bernie Sanders looks like he’ll win. The…
Elizabeth Warren’s trail of tears
Elizabeth Warren will soon be gone, a victim of her faux personality, her failure at identity politics, her badgering, eat-your-spinach…
Why we should welcome a Sinn Fein government
There are those – most of my acquaintance in Ireland, frankly – who can think of nothing worse than Sinn…
Beware Sinn Fein’s Trojan horse
I got my first Irish passport a few months ago. It felt like a vaguely transgressive gesture because my primary…
The minister who politely refused to play the trans language game
This is an article about the power of language in the transgender debate, about how the trans agenda has been…
Trump steals the Dems’ spotlight at New Hampshire rally
President Donald Trump successfully trolled Democrats once again Monday — hosting a packed rally the night before their New Hampshire…
2020 is a mirror image of 2016
A perfect storm enabled Donald Trump’s ascendance in the 2016 primary race, leading him to capture the Republican nomination and…
Boris’s leaked tax plans suggest a truly radical Toryism
‘You want the dowry, but you don’t like the bride’ is how Israeli prime minister Levi Eshkol summed up his…
Ireland’s election result is bad news for Brexit
Ireland has given its own twist to the populist uprisings across Europe, with its election ushering in a grim time…
Joaquin Phoenix’s Oscars speech was beyond a joke
The 2020 Oscars will go down in history for two things: Bong Joon-ho’s brilliant film Parasite becoming the first foreign-language…
The BBC has much to learn from Japan’s national broadcaster
NHK is Japan’s version of the BBC – it was actually modelled after the Beeb way back in the 1920s.…
Oscar-winning ‘Parasite’ reviewed
Bong Joon-ho's award-winning film is satire, thriller, comedy, allegory and horror all rolled into one
Varadkar’s election gamble backfires as Sinn Fein surge
Irish election results are being counted and it seems that Leo Varadkar’s snap election gamble has worked out as badly…
What stunts should we expect to see at future State of the Unions?
The State of the Union is like that annual meeting where the boss says it was a triumphant year as…
No presidency for old men
What a thrill! Last night, I was dining with a friend in Piccola Italia, a charming restaurant in Manchester, New…
Labour’s radicals need to grow up
As the well-worn cliché has it: if you’re not a socialist at 16, you don’t have a heart; if you’re…
