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What will Trump say in the State of the Union?
When President Trump speaks to Congress and the nation Tuesday night he will follow several familiar tropes. Like a long line of presidents before…
What will Trump say in the State of the Union address?
When President Trump speaks to Congress and the nation Tuesday night he will follow several familiar tropes. Like a long line of presidents before…
The killing that has divided Washington and Paris
Washington’s warning last week about the spread of far-left violence in France did not go down well in Paris. In…
Is there a simpler answer to the special needs crisis?
The Jesuits had it all wrong. They famously insisted: ‘Give me a boy at seven and I will give you…
Is Trump being played by Iran?
Half of America’s deployable air power sits within striking distance of Iran, and yet Washington is negotiating. Gaza is promised…
Can centrism survive in the Netherlands?
Rob Jetten being sworn as prime minister of the Netherlands would, not long ago, have seemed an exotic proposition. That…
The German army’s drones disaster
German politicians like to talk about Zeitenwende – the country’s great turning point in its defence policy since the invasion of…
How West Midlands Police became a tool of the anti-Jewish mob
The Home Affairs Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal has finally landed. And it is damning indeed. It…
The deep state vs Nixon
Americans took a break from their partisan vituperation in February to mull over newly revealed testimony that Richard Nixon gave…
My run-in with Stalin’s trolls
My libel nightmare all started in a little Oslo bookshop – but amid the whirlwind of horrible scandals and atrocious…
Peter Mandelson arrested by Met Police
Peter Mandelson, Britain’s short-lived ambassador to the US, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. In a…
Does parliament know how to legislate?
Tomorrow the Welsh Senedd votes on whether to give legislative consent to the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.…
Watch: Labour MP’s ‘dark shit’ jibe
If you didn’t laugh at this Labour government, you would cry. The Anti-Corruption Minister has resigned over corruption; the Homelessness…
Labour’s special educational needs reforms don’t add up
Does Bridget Phillipson think that every child has learning difficulties? The government’s long-overdue overhaul of provision for children with special…
The truth about Mexico’s cartel wars
To understand the latest disturbing spasm of violence in Mexico, it helps to go back six years to an ultra-wealthy…
No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that World War Three has already started. Speaking to the BBC on the eve of…
Watch: Martin Lewis confronts Kemi Badenoch
Oh dear. It seems that Martin Lewis, the self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’, has come a bit of a cropper in…
Does Andrew make the case for republicanism?
So: is the game up? Looking at the former Prince Andrew’s slumped posture, corpse-grey face and thousand-yard stare in the snatched photographs…
El Mencho’s death plunges Mexico into chaos
Mayhem has erupted across Mexico after security forces eliminated Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the drug lord widely known as El Mencho,…
Can Reform really make Britain Christian again?
Lent has barely begun, yet on the right of British politics the resurrection has already arrived. God, it seems, is…
How Britain learnt to turn a blind eye to shariah
The more excitable and less well-educated elements of the liberal left are forever apt to observe that politics today resemble…
What’s wrong with Zionism, Hugh Laurie?
The question arose within hours of a death that should have remained a matter of grief. On 16 February, Dana…
My brush with El Mencho’s sadistic men
In the early hours of Sunday, Mexico’s security forces carried out a daring military operation that ended with the death…
Sunday shows round-up: Boris says troops should be sent to Ukraine
Boris Johnson: Britain should send troops to Ukraine now In an interview with the BBC, former prime minister Boris Johnson…
Wartime love is not for the faint-hearted in Kyiv
People say love develops more quickly in war – because in a world where anything can happen, what is there…
