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.…
If we outsource our thinking to artificial intelligence will we also surrender responsibility – and more?
Artificial Intelligence can’t come soon enough, especially if one considers the behaviour of some people in the middle of the…
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…
Go have a long lunch, Emma, and put away the phone
It’s awful losing your job. Bloody awful. Full stop. Most of us have been there one time or another. We…
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…
The brave new world of ‘moral bioenhancement’
O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t. …
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.…
The cultural juggernaut of transgender ideology: not kids’ stuff
Even as an adult, it can be an intimidating and daunting task to untangle and challenge the lies of transgender…
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…
Labor: the party of the workers – or the woke?
Labor might need to split into two separate parties if it is to represent workers as well as inner-city poodle…
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…
California dreamin’, our cheap and reliable electricity nightmare
Matthew Warren in the AFR three days ago was highly critical of the electricity market manager’s proposed spending on new…
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…
