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Lukashenko has learned to ignore the EU’s empty threats
On Belarus, the EU has been eager to talk the talk. But it has been slower to walk the walk.…
Joe Biden’s DNC speech
Good evening. Ella Baker, a giant of the civil rights movement, left us with this wisdom: give people light and…
That dreary Bloomberg speech cost him $18 million
There’s an infamous anecdote from an old New York magazine story, in which then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg arrived at…
Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?
‘Have you guys been following 4Chan?’ asks Marjorie Taylor Greene in a 2017 video. A mysterious ‘patriot’ named ‘Q’, Greene…
The Michelle Obama Podcast is wholesome, intimate and suspiciously vague
Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew…
Does Steve Bannon’s arrest hurt the Trump re-election effort?
Oops. Not only did the wall that Donald Trump promised to build never get built, but it turns out that…
Why Britain is seen as the Kremlin’s greatest foe
Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny is, as of writing, fighting for his life, hooked to a ventilator…
How No. 10 outsmarted Alastair Campbell
LBC broadcaster Iain Dale has moved his Edinburgh Festival ‘All Talk’ series to Zoom, and yesterday he spoke to Alastair…
Who do Democrats want to be?
In 2004, Democratic senator Zell Miller spoke to the Republican National Convention in New York City. Focusing on the wars…
Is this the end of the line for public transport?
News that rail fares are to rise by 1.6 per cent in January, and public transport fares in London by…
Justin Trudeau’s prorogation memory loss
A prime minister better known for his charisma than his policy achievements proroguing parliament to ride out a political storm.…
The truth about the migrant crisis isn’t what you think
Home Secretary Priti Patel visited the port of Dover last week to gee up the beleaguered Border Force and offer words…
‘Republicans’ at the DNC
The Democratic Zoomvention is nearly complete. Cutting away all the pageantry typical of a party convention has done a great…
The poisoning of Putin critic Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny, the most important opposition leader in Russia, is unconscious in hospital after drinking poisoned tea on an airplane.…
A new world is taking shape and Britain is nowhere to be seen
Britain cannot afford for its place in the world to be limited by those stuck in the thinking and guilt…
All pageantry, no progress: Wednesday night at the DNC
‘I’m in love — but not with anybody here. I’ll see you in a couple years,’ Billie Eilish crooned during…
For the Democrats’ sake, I hope the DNC viewership is low
I almost gave tonight’s DNC performance a miss. How could they top the fey chap pretending to be a bat…
Pompeo is right on Iran sanctions
The halls of the UN are a habitual stage for empty gestures and vaporous rhetoric, but last Friday’s Security Council…
Meghan Markle, voting rights activist
The biggest voting bloc in America is that of the non-voter. As a result, most prominent calls to Americans to…
A country for old men
When 83-year-old New Jersey congressman Bill Pascrell shared a photo of American lawmakers meeting a Chinese trade delegation in Washington…
Have Arab nations forgotten about Palestine by accepting Israel?
The Palestinians are entering one of the most precarious periods in their nation’s history. The normalisation of relations between Israel…
The stock market isn’t the success story Trump thinks it is
COVID-19 is still raging, with little sign of coming under control. The economy is already a tenth smaller than it…
The case for mass testing
This morning, Matt Hancock claimed on the Today programme that the government is now working as fast as it can…
Farewell, Public Health England
Farewell, Public Health England. Hello, National Institute for Health Protection. As expected, the hammer has fallen on the agency that…
Why weren’t we wearing masks at the start of the crisis?
The rise of the face mask has been one of the remarkable features of the later period of the Covid-19…
