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The Labour left are purging themselves
Ever since Keir Starmer was elected leader in April a phoney peace has prevailed in the Labour party. While it…
Iran’s second wave could come crashing down on the regime
If Iran has performed one role in the time of coronavirus it’s been as a harbinger of things to come.…
What we still don’t know about Covid in Leicester
Just why has Leicester been locked down, its economy placed back in the deep freeze and many more of its…
The sheer hypocrisy of the food culture wars
Alison Roman, a celebrity chef and Instagrammer, has come under attack from woke warriors because of her dish ‘#thestew’. Her…
Why corporations should not bow to the mob
Some of America’s biggest businesses are withholding their ad spending from social media sites, in order to pressure these platforms…
The neoliberal counter-revolution
America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the…
Boris doesn’t understand the Union
Boris Johnson’s statement that ‘there is no such thing as a border between England and Scotland’ is born of ignorance…
Pigeons are the solution to the statue controversy
Will nobody think of the pigeons? That thought has repeatedly occurred to me, as beloved roosts for generations of urban…
Trump’s African American ‘silent minority’ could swing the election
Donald Trump’s efforts to broaden his appeal to the African American community are bearing fruit. Rasmussen polling noted in early…
I don’t support BLM and neither should you
Most of us have remained largely silent as we watched the scenes of disorder and destruction around the country in…
Black Lives Matter’s anti-Semitism blind spot
Charles Dickens was not a nice man. He was horrid to his family, remarking on the birth of one of…
A Huawei U-turn must now be inevitable
The declaration by US authorities that Huawei and fellow Chinese comms firm ZTE are national security threats is likely to have a clear…
The death of Hong Kong
When Hong Kong was handed over from Britain to China with great fanfare on 1 July 1997, there was a…
Brits want a tougher line on China
The scenes in Hong Kong are hugely depressing. The authorities are already using the new Beijing-imposed national security law to…
The rise of Britain’s new class system
Television chef Prue Leith believes that snobbery is still rife in Britain, and that it’s keeping working-class people in their…
Is the Lancet becoming too political?
Doctors have always been political. Medical school is often a cradle of social activism, driven by a syllabus underlining health…
Boris’s ‘New Deal’ is nothing of the sort
The best thing I can say about Boris Johnson is that he’s not a real Tory. The Prime Minister belongs…
The Kushner conundrum
After a string of broken promises, policy disappointments and sinking poll numbers, the populist wing of the Republican party knows…
The poison of reparations
Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…
Racial division is being sown in the name of anti-racism
Dear fellow citizens, In the wake of the horrifying and brutal killing of George Floyd, many in the UK expressed…
Fashion designer vs former rapper: the 2020 election you need to follow
Ola Hawatmeh, the Republican nominee for New York’s 19th congressional district, doesn’t bring many surprises to the table policy-wise. She’s…
Does Boris’s ‘new deal’ offer anything new?
Today Boris Johnson launched his ‘new deal’ for Britain – billed as an economic recovery plan to follow the Covid…
Can antivirals defeat Covid-19?
Can antivirals help us defeat coronavirus? The odds don’t look good. The use of antiviral compounds against respiratory viruses has…
Should we be afraid of this new swine flu?
Imagine if a vaccine for Covid-19 was approved tomorrow, and that within weeks we had all been vaccinated. Would life…
Could Corbynites infiltrate the Lib Dems?
It’s funny how politics works. This time last year, the talk was of whether Labour moderates should leave their party…
