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Am I a cuck?
‘You’re a cuck, Tobes, an absolute cuck.’ My friend James Delingpole was furious. ‘Honestly, I thought I could depend on…
Boris Johnson has allowed himself to be snookered by the EU
The UK-EU trade negotiations have heated up again, albeit from a very cold state. Boris seems to have conceded ground…
Closing time at the Barr
William P. Barr is out. Joe Biden is in. And Donald Trump has a few more weeks left to bemoan…
Trump was right about the vaccine release
Donald Trump said during the second and final presidential debate on October 22 that he was optimistic a vaccine would…
Should we worry about the new variant of Covid-19?
Should we worry about the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19? News of the…
Emmanuel Macron’s great Brexit gamble
There is an intriguing pattern in our relationship with European integration. A Frenchman vetoed our attempt to join. A Frenchman…
Can the GOP win by losing Georgia?
Not long ago I attended a gathering of young White House and congressional Republican staffers. Conversation turned, as you might…
More Brexit talks are the worst possible outcome for the economy
Currency speculators at some of the hedge funds in Mayfair may be feeling quietly pleased.Trade experts will be relieved that…
No deal won’t ‘get Brexit done’
Brexit talks between the two sides are deadlocked. Boris Johnson’s latest bid to ‘divide and conquer’ – pledging to visit Paris…
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…
