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What does China actually want from Britain?
How the west responds to China is now the defining foreign policy issue of our time. The communist party’s suppression…
Pelosi goes full Trump
Speaker Nancy Pelosi skipped the sugarcoating and punched the President in the gut on Monday. Trump had announced to the…
California spreads the wealth…to illegal immigrants
California is mastering government of the people, by the people, for…illegal aliens? Starting this week, illegal immigrants living in California…
Trump picks a Swedish model
Donald Trump is moving toward a Swedish model. His vitality sustained by regular doses of hydroxychloroquine, President Prophylaxis is pushing…
Bill Barr and the single standard of justice
You have to hand it to the New York Times. They certainly know how to spin a story. Yesterday, Attorney General William…
It’s time to take a stand against Chinese bullying
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in the magazine how the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to bully…
The Stacey Abrams presidency
‘You don’t run for second place.’ That’s how Stacey Abrams responded when asked if she would consider being presidential hopeful…
Germany’s flag burning ban is a threat to freedom of expression
Germany’s national parliament has made the public burning of the European Union flag and flags of foreign countries punishable by…
Where is Britain’s China strategy?
The UK doesn’t have a China strategy. We have not had one since George Osborne declared a ‘golden era’ of…
Is it time to bring back Steve Bannon?
Until recently, it seemed unlikely that Donald Trump would need to call on the services of his former strategist Steve…
The growing evidence on vitamin D and Covid
The argument that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to more severe cases of Covid is gaining ground. It is now…
Tories should listen to Farage’s warnings about Channel migrants
The idea of a flotilla of little ships crossing the English Channel from France to deposit their beleaguered human cargo…
Why didn’t Boris act sooner against coronavirus?
It is too easy to become obsessive in whole or partial lockdown. And my obsession for weeks now is why…
Still, the Global War on Terrorism goes on
I can think of only a single positive thing to say about World War One: it ended. Yet in addition…
It isn’t necessarily the economy, stupid!
‘It’s the economy, stupid!’ With those now famous words, the Democratic strategist James Carville summarized the 1992 election between President…
Jonathan Sumption: ‘You cannot imprison an entire population’
The current rationale for the lockdown is incoherent. The old rationale was: ‘you must spread the infections over a longer…
Why did Justin Amash give up?
Three weeks after announcing his bid for the Libertarian party presidential nomination, Justin Amash has called it off. What went…
Sweden has pioneered an alternative to lockdown – and it works
Uppsala The culture of social distancing does strange things to us. A few weeks ago I got an invitation to…
The terrible ageism of our current lockdown
I’ve always thought western society was terribly ageist, and I don’t just mean ‘showbiz’ folk but across the board. Then…
Boris Johnson needs to admit his coronavirus mistakes
Be careful what you wish for. Over the past few years, a fair number of thoughtful Tories have included a…
My fears about the ‘new normal’
Perhaps there’s light at the end of the long lockdown tunnel. The roadmap at least allows hope that life might…
Stimulus squabble marks a return to politics as usual
Who is the proposed new $3 trillion stimulus package designed to help? If enacted, the bill — which narrowly passed…
Do the experts believe in the R number?
The R-number has been declared the most important metric in monitoring Covid in Britain. For young children to return to school…
Kayleigh McEnany is winning the 2020 election
Well, isn’t she lovely? Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s new press secretary, is already winning the hearts and minds of locked-down males…
My positive antibody test is an ‘immunity passport’ in all but name
I wouldn’t say I felt I had joined a master race when my coronavirus ‘immunity passport’ arrived this week. But…
