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John Bolton is a greedy hack
Bolton is a peculiar and stubborn man – you can tell that from his moustache. He’s also a greedy hack.…
The five most explosive Trump claims in Bolton’s new book
Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has made a series of bombshell revelations in a new tell-all biography. Claims…
Will India finally learn its lesson on China?
Clashes between Indian and Chinese troops are shocking but nothing new. For almost twenty days, in the autumn of 1962, a…
Footballers should get to their feet – not ‘take the knee’
It’s hard to argue that English football is chronically racist. Unlike in many boardrooms up and down Britain, there are…
Will Trump’s ‘Great American Comeback’ work?
There’s no spinning it: if the U.S. presidential election were held today, it is highly unlikely Donald Trump would win…
Black mass: the Georgetown Lecture Fund’s odd diversity campaign
The New York Times’s opinion editor resigned in disgrace earlier this month following a newsroom revolt over the publication of…
The ill-timed revelations of John Bolton
It’s starting to look as though the question isn’t who Donald Trump asked to assist him in his 2020 bid…
Keir Starmer has no idea how to use normal language
A testy, ill-tempered PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer began by welcoming the anti-viral breakthrough achieved by British scientists. He got an…
Boris should keep calm and ignore the polls
When those words and phrases of the year lists come out there is bound to be a place in them…
Is this the real reason Sweden didn’t lockdown?
Anders Tegnell is either a hero or villain, depending on whether you think Sweden’s approach to Covid-19 has saved the…
Macron is trying to bathe in de Gaulle’s glory. It won’t work
Emmanuel Macron never misses an historical opportunity to emblazon his banner. One is reminded of the nineteenth century diplomat Talleyrand…
Is dexamethasone a major Covid breakthrough?
Just how a big a deal is today’s announcement that the steroid anti-inflammatory drug Dexamethasone has been shown to be…
Have the protests proved that Covid-19 risks are being vastly exaggerated?
By now, we ought to be seeing some evidence of increasing Covid-19 cases from the mass protests. The fact we are…
What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it
How do you navigate conversations with people when the default assumption is that you’re a racist? What do you do…
The Biden factor is difficult to calculate
The final stage of the election campaign and its result will depend on four factors: management of the balance between…
Defend the police
President Trump is signing an executive order today on police reform. The order, while relatively toothless, does one important thing:…
Why banking on judges is a poor strategy
Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County was massively significant for two reasons. As a legal matter, the…
How much does Trump’s rift with military brass matter?
Donald Trump needs to ramp it up. After he almost bobbled a glass of water and carefully descended a ramp…
Germany is picking up the tab for Brexit
The car workers would pay a heavy price. The City would be muscled out of crucial markets. The Treasury would…
The Red Wall overwhelmingly opposes a no-deal Brexit
It isn’t news to say the Johnson administration doesn’t understand how to fight Covid-19 or reopen schools or save the…
Can Keir Starmer turn Labour into a credible party?
By most measures Keir Starmer has, politically speaking, won the war when it comes to Covid. Since becoming Labour leader…
Coronavirus has spoiled Vladimir Putin’s coronation party
Vladimir Putin’s traditional ways of dealing with crises don’t work with Covid-19. Unlike previous opponents he has faced, the coronavirus…
COVID and the left: you can’t rally, but we can riot
Are you ready for the second blame wave? As the country braces itself for an inevitable repeat surge in COVID-19…
Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or…
Boris’s gender change sanity leaves Labour with a difficult choice
The Sunday Times says Boris Johnson is going to reject May-era proposals to allow people to “self-identify” changes of their…
