30.04.2018
The problem with ApuOur determination to take umbrage at innocuous things keeps finding new targets. ...
23.04.2018
Putin’s ‘useless idiots’As far as we know, Vladimir Lenin never used the phrase “useful idiots."...
16.04.2018
Spasms of rage over an imaginary gender pay gapIf American women earn 18.1 percent less than American men, as the OECD has just revealed, why does anyone employ men?...
09.04.2018
Trump’s tariffs are just tax hikes on American consumersWhy did congressional Republicans vote for a federal tax cut?...
26.03.2018
The distinction between opinion and incitement is under assaultWe don’t remember the near-misses....
19.03.2018
Putin will keep up his aggression until he encounters resistanceRussia has technically committed an act of war against the United Kingdom, and thus against NATO...
12.03.2018
Trump’s tariffs are America’s self-blockadeCould tariffs be the issue that finally separates Republicans from President Trump?...
05.03.2018
Why have Republicans stopped worrying about spending?Explain something to me, cousins. This federal deficit of yours — why have you all suddenly gone so quiet about it?...
26.02.2018
CPAC’s disastrous, misguided embrace of Marion Le PenHere’s a list of political stances that cluster together in several populist European parties....
19.02.2018
If you take offense at ‘Anglo-American,’ you probably aren’t very smartOne moment, a word is wholly unobjectionable, the next it makes the speaker a Nazi....
12.02.2018
In defense of George SorosGeorge Soros should spend his money however he likes. There, I’ve said it....
05.02.2018
The anti-Brexit cult’s end-of-the-world refuses to happenThe world will end this year, according to some Biblical extrapolations....
22.01.2018
What makes for a shithole?Here’s an awkward truth. It’s easier to attract talented people from shithole countries than from Norway....
15.01.2018
Racism in the realm beyond reasonIt’s not just that Markle shares the broadly liberal outlook of Hollywood, being keen on feminism and Noam Chomsky...
05.01.2018
Trump is lucky in his enemiesYou don’t convince people by insulting, bullying or threatening them. ...
18.12.2017
Capitalism is a win, even for the losersArtificial intelligence is transforming the workplace more profoundly than the industrial revolution did...
11.12.2017
Jerusalem, dividedThe status of Jerusalem isn’t part of the Israel-Palestine dispute. ...
04.12.2017
Stop apologizing to the loonsIt started with an apology on Twitter. And not just an apology....
27.11.2017
If you want to save the elephants, privatize themPETA, needless to say, does not look at lions in the way that local villagers do. ...
20.11.2017
Dan Hannan: The Republicans’ astonishing, Orwellian change of heart on PutinUntil recently, suspicion of Russia’s strongman was common to almost every Republican...
06.11.2017
From Martin Luther to the American RevolutionThe religious conflicts that followed Martin Luther’s break with Rome seem to belong to a different universe....
23.10.2017
The real point of ‘fake news’Who is falling for the laughable disinformation beamed out every hour by RT, Vladimir Putin's TV station?...
16.10.2017
How to anger a feminist: Criticize Harvey Weinstein the wrong wayIt's not enough, apparently, to condemn Harvey Weinstein as a priapic creep. ...
09.10.2017
Why the EU can never accept an independent CataloniaSuch is the terrifying gravitational power of the European Union that it has pulled even Nigel Farage into its orbit....
02.10.2017
The latest US move on planes is a train-wreckThe decision to slap 220 percent tariffs on imported aircraft is so wrongheaded, so unjust......
26.09.2017
Let’s hear it for nationalismIt is hard to convey quite how badly Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations was received in Brussels....
18.09.2017
Trump’s anti-Amazon LuddismAmazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt ...
11.09.2017
Can anything now stop North Korea?We have tried carrots and sticks, aid and sanctions, engagement and isolation. Nothing seems to work....
04.09.2017
Moral equivalence between fascists and antifa? AbsolutelyFootage emerged last week of masked ruffians beating a man as he writhed on the ground at Berkeley's campus...
08.08.2017
Brits need to get over their beef with US meatI eat steak whenever I'm in the United States. Your steaks are bigger, juicier, and more tender than those I can buy in Europe....
31.07.2017
Obamacare is here to stayIf the Republicans can't scrap Obamacare, what is the point of them?...
25.07.2017
US should stop coddling the Saudis on QatarWhen Qatar was accused of sponsoring jihadi violence, people around the world drew back instinctively....
10.07.2017
In Venezuela, the destructive force of socialism is at workWhere have all the Chavistas gone?...
05.07.2017
Punch a Nazi, shoot a Republican — how far you want to take it is a matter of tasteThere's a bellicose undertone in a lot of Leftist rhetoric these days. ...
26.06.2017
The death of a matador will, paradoxically, make bullfighting more popularIván Fandiño preferred to let his cape do the talking....
19.06.2017
Pro-life, pro-Brexit, pro-UK: How Northern Ireland’s DUP became the enemy of the LeftThe permanently affronted Left has a new target. Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)...
06.06.2017
Good globalization and bad globalizationIf I say the word "globalization," what images come to your mind?...
29.05.2017
There’s no such thing as total security from terrorismThere's no such thing as total security from terrorism...
22.05.2017
Eurocrats resent the spread of the English languageNever before has the world had a common language. ...
02.05.2017
Conservatives International launches next month in Miami. Join us!When I was growing up in Lima in the 1970s, Western visitors were astonished by the shantytowns, the barriadas......
25.04.2017
Theresa May is about to become the most powerful leader in EuropeI suppose the Margaret Thatcher comparisons are inevitable. Britain has had only one other female prime minister...
18.04.2017
Trump backs NATO. Your play, EuropeBetween the election and the inauguration, when Donald Trump was still praising Vladimir Putin as "very smart,"...
10.04.2017
Spain’s colonialism in GibraltarWhy would you want to annex a territory whose population rejects you? It's a question that should be asked more often....
03.04.2017
Cheer up! Brexit is an incredible opportunity!"We are leaving the European Union," said Theresa May in her letter to Donald Tusk, formally activating the withdrawal process. ...
27.03.2017
The real danger to democracyI'm ashamed to say that I can't remember whether or not I met PC Keith Palmer, the policeman murdered by Khalid Masood......
20.03.2017
Partisanship isn’t a crime; it’s a blunderTry one of the following sentences. "President Trump has made some excellent appointments, but ......
13.03.2017
Why Scotland won’t secedeNicola Sturgeon, described the referendum as a "once in a generation" event....
06.03.2017
Famines are caused by awful governments — so stop giving those awful governments money"Famine in South Sudan." When I was growing up in the 1970s, it would have been an unremarkable headline....
27.02.2017
Eight reasons for optimism in the Trump eraI said some hard things about President Trump during the primaries, and I'm sure I will again....
20.02.2017
Israel needs a two-state solutionOne of the odder features of human nature, behavioral psychologists observe, is that we judge an idea as much by its proponents ...
14.02.2017
The Left is collapsing everywhereHere's a startling fact: There have been eight leaders of the British Labour Party in the past 40 years. Seven of them failed to...
07.02.2017
America really is a threat to the EU — but not in the way Eurocrats think"Shame! Shame! Shame on you!" yelled the crowd, waving their placards and shaking their dreadlocks as we walked past....
30.01.2017
The Left loves fake news"Post-truth politics," "alternative facts," "fake news": how disdainfully the phrases drop from leftist lips. As the liberal wri...
23.01.2017
The Swiss have found the secret of democratic happinessDelegates to the World Economic Forum felt under siege this year. Elections keep going against their vision of a borderless worl...
16.01.2017
Trump’s protectionism will hurt working peopleOf all the ideas associated with the incoming president's economic policy, the oddest is that his hostility to free trade is som...
09.01.2017
Why you can’t reason with PutinYou'd think no one had tried to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin before. Every time President-elect Trump sides with ...
19.12.2016
The Bond villain libertarians of GuatemalaIt's like some fevered left-wing conspiracy theory come to life. Hidden away in Guatemala, surrounded by tall jungle trees, is a...
12.12.2016
The writing is on the wallThe EU is breaking records for unpopularity. Its leaders have been rebuffed in referendums in the U.K. and Italy...
05.12.2016
Why Brexit should work out for everyoneLet's suppose that the European Union always acted in its rational self-interest. (I know, I know, but humor me.) How would it r...
28.11.2016
The case for a US-UK trade dealHere's why I'll always have a soft spot for Hoosiers in general, and Mike Pence in particular. ...
21.11.2016
The virtue signaling of the anti-Trump riotersBewildered onlookers keep asking what the anti-Trump rioters and flag-burners hope to achieve. ...
14.11.2016
Warming to TrumpAn odd thing has happened since last week. I've started warming to Donald Trump. Maybe it was his gracious acceptance speech or ...
06.11.2016
The case against international human rights lawAnti-Americans love to focus on the refusal, by successive U.S. administrations, to sign up to the International Criminal Court....
31.10.2016
Yes, politicians are lying more—voters demand itHere's a counter-cyclical observation. Politicians very rarely tell direct untruths. At the very least, they do so less often...
24.10.2016
The Constitution is bigger than any politicianSure enough, Democrats have switched in the final weeks from attacking Donald Trump to trying to tie the Republican Party to...
17.10.2016
How should a conservative vote?I can't think of a U.S. election since the Civil War where neither of the main candidates has been either conservative or...
10.10.2016
Will no American politician speak for free trade?We're approaching an important but unremarked bicentenary. It was in 1817 that David Ricardo, a British economist...
03.10.2016
Britain’s ‘Trot tots’"Baa-Baa Black Sheep, have you any wool? No! My fleece was seized by landowners, priests and fascists. They victimize me because...
26.09.2016
The racism of the anti-racistsHere's a shocking story. A student, active in white racial politics, gets cross because he sees a black student filming him. He...
19.09.2016
When a gaffe isn’t a gaffeHonestly, how many voters care what a leppo is? Republicans and Democrats can promise as many leppos as they like, but ...
12.09.2016
All this money printing may finally be vindicating MarxKarl Marx was wrong about pretty much everything. I don't just mean wrong in the broad moral sense — although, with a hundred...
06.09.2016
Virtue signaling and the bathroom warsFederal judges are now telling universities what restrooms their students must use. This in a country which deposed its anointed...
29.08.2016
The naked truth about the burkini banSome ladies in hijabs live near me, and we often stop for a chat when we pass in the street. There was a time when their choice ...
22.08.2016
Trump will explode — Republicans take cover now"They will soon be calling me MR BREXIT!" Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday. I worked for 26 years to make Brexit happen. ...
15.08.2016
Is democracy going out of fashion?For the first time since at least the 1930s, serious commentators in Western countries are arguing against democracy. "Popular ...
08.08.2016
The danger of American protectionismOn every measure, mankind is enjoying a golden age. We are living longer, happier, healthier lives than our grandparents could ...
01.08.2016
A solution to the Russian doping scandalWe had a pretty good idea of how the Kremlin would react to the doping scandal: by blaming everyone else and claiming victimhood...
25.07.2016
France: The civil war has begunIn one of those eerie coincidences, the day of the Charlie Hebdo atrocity saw the publication of a novel by the grumpy French...
18.07.2016
Liberals can’t have it both waysIt was exactly a year ago that a 22-year-old white man went into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston...
11.07.2016
The working classes vs. the smirking classesYou want a pithy, one-sentence summary of what happened in Britain's recent referendum on leaving the EU? Try this, from a woman...
04.07.2016
We won our independence back!I'm still reeling from the magnitude of it. When Britain voted to leave the European Union, it was defying the entire...
20.06.2016
A vote 26 years in the makingMy whole adult life has been a preparation for next week's vote on leaving the European Union. It's not just the biggest event...
13.06.2016
The case for Gary Johnson"Spain," wrote the Basque philosopher Miguel de Unamuno in 1934, "is divided between the Anti-Zs, who support X, and the Anti-Xs...
11.06.2016
Brexit vote: It’s more American than you thinkIf the European Union were simply a club of nations, a forum through which neighboring states could arbitrate their disputes...
06.06.2016
The Battle of the Somme 100 years onThere should be a special name for books about World War One in which World War One doesn't feature. I mean novels such as...
30.05.2016
What’s the matter with Austria?Never mind Kansas. What is the matter with Austria? Last week's presidential election saw the wealthy Alpine republic evenly...
23.05.2016
American campus craziness comes to OxfordWould you hire a lawyer who couldn't handle references to violence? If not, then be wary of anyone who graduated from Oxford...
16.05.2016
The real reason Donald Trump is unfit to be presidentDonald Trump is not fit to lead the free world. He is a narcissistic, thin-skinned bully, a serial liar, a man who shows not the...
09.05.2016
Labour’s Jewish problemWe politicians can be too quick to reach for superlatives. We sometimes proclaim ourselves "shocked" and "outraged" over tiny...
29.04.2016
Barack bombs in BritainWell, the polls are in and — not to put too fine a point on it — President Obama has bombed. Last week, disregarding the...
25.04.2016
The European Union picks a fight with GoogleWhat the blithering flip are Eurocrats thinking? "Hmm: the EU is falling further and further behind. The Eurozone's economy is...
18.04.2016
What Great Britain can learn from TexasBritain has imported yet another American cultural norm. As of last week, our leading politicians are expected to publish their...
11.04.2016
The terrorist threat is getting serious, but we mustn’t panicDo you remember the footage of last month's subway bomb in Brussels? You know, with the frightened passengers choking their way...
28.03.2016
Justice and jurisdictionOnly once, in a lifetime of making speeches, have I become so overcome with emotion that I choked up. It happened at a ceremony...
