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Hasn’t Israel Folau been punished enough?
When Israel Folau settled his multi-million dollar grievance with Rugby Australia after he was sacked over a social media post…
Boris should take back control from the House of Lords
I imagine that in recommending Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke for peerages, Boris Johnson sees himself in engaging in a…
The coronavirus outbreak shows WHO is afraid of China
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has sometimes been too slow to properly react to major outbreaks of illnesses or diseases.…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s Cold War pact with Cuba
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov kicked off his tour of Latin America this week with a visit to Cuba. The…
A night with Bernie Sanders’s brother
Larry Sanders, Bernie’s literal bro, moved to England in the late 1960s and settled in picture postcard Oxford. I was…
Of course president Trump was acquitted
The impeachment of President Trump was unfounded in law and in fact and was never anything but a smear-job organised…
After Iowa, Donald Trump looks invincible
Any future history of the decline and fall of the American Republic ought to include a page or two on…
Quassem Soleimani’s terror lives on for Israelis
Quassem Soleimani is dead but in Israel fear of his warped legacy lives on. The Iranian general was key to…
Trump’s State of the Union was a perfect chance to gloat at Democrats
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address began with a snub to Speaker Nancy Pelosi as she extended her hand across…
Boris’s eco plans will end in tears
At least no one will be able to accuse it of not caring about the environment. The government has just…
The Iowa shambles is a delight for Trump
Voters in Iowa lined up in high-school gymnasiums across the state last night to prepare for a long few hours…
The Democrats’ Iowa shambles is a delight for Donald Trump
Voters in Iowa lined up in high-school gymnasiums across the state last night to prepare for a long few hours…
Emergency terror laws set to end early prisoner release
The government has this afternoon unveiled its response to the Streatham terrorist incident on Sunday – which saw a man recently…
It’s about time we had cameras in court
I stood up this week and made a speech. I have made speeches like this many times in my 26…
‘We will never return, there is no going back’: the Brexit Day party, as it happened
Remainers were there too. The first people I met at the Brexit Day festivities were opposed to the whole idea.…
The reason our civil service is soft on China
The creation of the National Security Council under David Cameron was supposed to join up parts of British government which…
Ignore the Brexit day party poopers – it’s time to celebrate
Don’t gloat. Don’t be too triumphalist. Don’t wave your flags too boisterously. Don’t say or do anything that might offend…
Boris Johnson’s Blairism is bamboozling Labour
Is Boris Johnson the Blairite who may not speak his name? All the PM’s talk of levelling up rather than levelling down?…
The five stages of Brexit grief
It’s been more than three years since the Brexit referendum, and we’re only a day away from actually leaving the…
The Michelin Guide’s tiresome sustainability award
The Michelin Red Guide is a marketing device to sell tyres by selling pastries. The guide was invented in 1900…
We should be wary of our spooks’ complacency about Huawei
I might be feeling more confident about the government’s decision to give Huawei a limited role in building Britain’s 5G…
Boris risks backbench rebellion if he doesn’t get Huawei right
Tory MPs are not happy with the Huawei decision. Normally loyal MPs are expressing their bafflement at the announcement. As…
Why we’ll regret the Huawei gamble
It is apparently fine for China to ban western technology from its telecommunications network but quite unacceptable for us to…
The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei
With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…
The dangers of letting Huawei build our 5G network
This afternoon Boris Johnson finally approved the use of equipment made by Huawei in building parts of Britain’s 5G network.…
