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Why I won’t mourn the death of the cinema
You could smell the stale popcorn and rancid carpet from the other end of the high street but that unmistakable…
Is America still a democratic republic?
‘Disappointed but not surprised.’ I suppose that describes my initial feeling about the summary dismissal by the Supreme Court last…
US Supreme Court ends Trump’s last hope
This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…
Britain is still failing to confront Islamism
How time flies. In March 2014, quite out of the blue, I was commissioned by then prime minister David Cameron…
The age of the failson
It’s hard to be the son of a powerful man. Just ask Saadi and Hannibal Gaddafi, Pier Berlusconi and Saudi…
How to solve Brexit’s ratchet clause problem
At the moment, the biggest single obstacle in the Brexit talks is the so-called ‘ratchet clause’. This is what Boris…
If Boris doesn’t blink over Brexit, Starmer becomes unelectable
If it’s No Deal, then it will usher in a crisis that will highlight the leader’s negative baggage and remind…
MIT’s China problem
Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at Georgia Tech on Wednesday about the Chinese Communist party’s undue influence on American higher education.…
Why Boris Johnson can’t sign the current Brexit deal
The negotiations are still underway in Brussels. But both the UK and the EU are now talking far more openly…
Hunter becomes the hunted
Are the chickens coming home for Hunter Biden? It certainly seems so, though experts differ on the critical question of…
Does the EU understand what sovereignty really means?
The UK never tried to have our constitution written in one big session. We made it up by responding to…
Johnson and von der Leyen agree a new Brexit deadline
Ahead of Boris Johnson’s dinner with Ursula von der Leyen, the hope in government had been that the discussion would…
Cambridge academics have just won an important battle for free speech
Academics at Cambridge won a cheering victory for free speech today when they voted by an overwhelming majority to reject…
Biden’s speech impediment
Does Joe Biden write his own speeches? Surely not. Yet his campaign says Biden was his own speechwriter for the address he made…
Don’t panic about the Covid vaccine allergy risk
In the coming weeks, you are inevitably going to see a slew of stories in the media about side effects…
Wealth taxes are not the answer to our financial woes
Today the Wealth Tax Commission, an initiative involving the LSE, has recommended a ‘one-off’ 5 per cent levy on the…
Why is China keeping quiet about its vaccine programme?
While Britain is the first country in the world to approve a vaccine, it is not the first to start…
We should not accept Brexit in name only
Given the seemingly highly technical nature of the current negotiations, members of the public who have normal lives to lead…
The EU’s remaining Brexit stumbling block
Here is the fundamental stumbling block to a free trade deal, one that the Prime Minister has just confirmed in…
What the Lancet study tells us about the Oxford vaccine
While the Pfizer vaccine became the first to be used in a public vaccination programme on Tuesday, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine…
A morning in a diner with Michigan’s COVID rebels
Portage, Michigan The short notice taped to the door is addressed ‘to all government officials’. It gives them a warning:…
Republican resurrection
When Donald Trump took his famous escalator ride, the Republican party was too attached to abstract principles at the expense of the material interests of…
Deal or no-deal? The choice is Boris Johnson’s
If you voted for Brexit, did you think it was a state of pure and perfect national independence, or did…
Every business is essential
Governors across the country are deploying their unilateral power to institute draconian measures which close small businesses, mostly those in…
Can Boris’s dash to Brussels secure a Brexit deal?
The upshot of Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen’s conversation this evening is that the pair will meet in…
