18.06.2025
Sanctions never workIt's as true of Israel as Iran, though a different set of people buy the argument this time...
08.06.2025
As pubs close, England retreats into anomieEven in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, a measure of free speech survived in pubs...
28.05.2025
Don’t blame free-marketeers for economic nationalismCapitalism does not mean 'something I don't like"...
22.05.2025
The fratricide of India and PakistanTheir tragic semi-conjoined birth guaranteed bad blood...
16.05.2025
The Right has missed its momentA global reaction against woke and big statery was underway until Trump tainted the brand...
08.05.2025
We are too complacent to halt the coming warLike the generation of 1914, we are unable to picture what lies ahead...
28.04.2025
The US is just one more Latin American countryCaudillismo, territorial expansionism, contempt for the constitution, jailing opponents, protectionism...
20.04.2025
America heads for meltdownOne's man obsession will immiserate the US and impoverish the world...
14.04.2025
Trump has resuscitated the global LeftEspecially in the countries that feel the pressure of MAGA revanchism...
08.04.2025
The threats to Canada shame AmericaTrump is railing against his own trade deal - and his officials are too cowed to say anything...
02.04.2025
If Trump were a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently?Switching sides in Ukraine, telling the NSA to stop monitoring Russia, picking fights with Nato allies...
22.03.2025
America switches sidesIn backing Russia against Nato, Trump has destroyed the international order...
16.03.2025
Nato is finishedThe bureaucracy may limp on for a few more years, but the alliance is done as a force in world affairs...
08.03.2025
Free speech or mass immigration - pick oneInstead of making newcomers adapt to our culture, we are doing the opposite...
28.02.2025
America turns on its loyal alliesThe MAGA crowd don't care that Denmark and Canada have been loyal friends for decades...
16.02.2025
Britain is warming to TrumpNegative polarisation is driving his popularity on the Right...
02.02.2025
Time for an Anglosphere UnionInstead of threatening Canada, Trump should offer a closer security and trade partnership...
28.01.2025
Musk pursues disruption for its own sakeShaking things up can sometimes make them worse - as conservatives used to understand...
16.01.2025
Should libertarians copy Javier Milei’s coarse style?"We're all tarts when it's someone else's arse," is how the Argentine President explains free-market economics...
08.01.2025
The money has run outVoters don't want to accept it and politicians don't want to admit it...
28.12.2024
Justin Trudeau’s death throesDid Trump bring down Trudeau with a single social media post?...
26.12.2024
The real lockdown casualty was scienceJay Bhattacharya must undo the damage that scientific panjandrums inflicted on themselves in 2020...
20.12.2024
Ukraine marks the end of the Pax AmericanaTrump can walk away from Ukraine, but he cannot walk away from the consequences of walking away...
14.12.2024
Will the US hand China the most important base in the Indo-Pacific region?Labour's deal with Mauritius is already falling apart, and the US can deliver the coup de grâce...
10.12.2024
The Democrats no longer care about winningWokery has destroyed the Dems, and will destroy Labour...
28.11.2024
The dream is overInstead of other countries aspiring to be more like America, America has become more like everywhere else...
18.11.2024
Britain and America always have their timing wrongA free trade agreement should have happened long ago, but we are the Rhett and Scarlett of international commerce...
08.11.2024
It should be called destructionismProtectionism hurts everyone - not least its intended beneficiaries...
04.11.2024
America’s godawful choiceOne candidate was disqualified by policy, the other by personality...
24.10.2024
Who knew the Aztecs were woke?The row between Spain and Mexico shows the absurdities into which victim politics lead us...
20.10.2024
Neither US party seems to want to winThe anti-Trumpers were there for the asking, had anyone made the effort...
12.10.2024
Losing the AmericasThe weakness of the US in Venezuela is noted around the region - and beyond...
29.09.2024
Germany’s far right is backOne thing is driving the populist surge across Europe - crime...
25.09.2024
Keep the hereditary peersAt least until you have something better to put in their place...
13.09.2024
The Cold War isn’t over; it isn’t even coldFrom Nicaragua to Syria, old alliances still hold...
09.09.2024
Don’t sulk about Kamala - dump TrumpIt's not "a coup" to dump an unelectable candidate; Republicans should try it...
29.08.2024
Two-Tier KeirLet's hope the new crackdown signals a more general readiness to punish disorder...
17.08.2024
Only regime change can save VenezuelaAre we going to let autocracy claim country after country?...
08.08.2024
America is now literally governed by DEILefties openly admit that Kamala is a diversity hire, but get furious when anyone else says so...
30.07.2024
Elegy for the Grand Old PartyThe Republican Party had a great run before being displaced by this monstrosity...
26.07.2024
Did smartphones kill democracy?Our screen-addled age is impatient, infantile and prone to conspiracy theories...
14.07.2024
American democracy can’t take much moreThe Supreme Court, notionally the referee, is now wholly divided along party lines...
06.07.2024
Don’t worry about AIAll new technologies are decried as job-destroyers, but it is never true...
30.06.2024
Is Nigel Farage our Donald Trump?Followers are expected constantly to readjust their opinions to suit their leader, while pouring invective at everyone else...
24.06.2024
Lockdown omertàHalf the world is voting right now, but no country is talking about the single biggest issue...
12.06.2024
Trump will end up joining Pacific trade pactCPTPP is the most effective way to contain China's ambitions...
08.06.2024
The cynicism of D-DayWe moved in one generation from "The Longest Day" to "Saving Private Ryan"...
28.05.2024
When did the world start going backwards?Was it the financial crisis, mass immigration, screen addiction or something else?...
24.05.2024
When the fall is all there is, it mattersIf Rishi Sunak must go down, it will be on his own terms, as a patriot who did his best...
22.05.2024
After this, the UN has no place in GazaWhoever takes over the territory, there needs to be a policy of re-education, and that cannot happen through UNRWA...
14.05.2024
The revolution will be cateredCampus radicalism is nothing new, but this self-absorbed whining can only have come from the smartphone generation...
10.05.2024
Rwanda is an ideal destination30 years after the worst genocide of the late 20th century, the country is booming...
04.05.2024
Revenge is by definition pointlessIt cannot right whatever wrong you have suffered, though it seems to be hardwired into our genome...
26.04.2024
Don’t ban TikTokIt's a dreadful app, and the Chinese government is even more dreadful, but bans are never the answer...
14.04.2024
Don’t change your rules at the demand of people who hate youFree association is the basis of a free society - and that includes the Garrick Club...
05.04.2024
The Republicans’ bad conscienceMike Pence stands for the principles and ethics that all Republicans used to extol. No wonder they hate him...
27.03.2024
The single biggest shift in US politicsNon-white voters are deserting the Dems in droves...
12.03.2024
The ugly tradition of Leftist anti-SemitismWhat we are seeing now is not new, but part of a tradition stretching back to Karl Marx...
04.03.2024
Multiculturalism or democracy - pick oneFor Parliament to alter its procedures under threat of violence was a new low...
28.02.2024
More elderly leaders, please!Spare us from young thrusters with high testosterone and things to prove...
20.02.2024
And after Trump?Despite everything, there are encouraging signs that the Republicans still believe in free enterprise...
11.02.2024
Is “settler colonialism” really a white thing?West Papua, Iraqi Kurdistan, Western Sahara, Matabeleland, Chittagong Hills, Xinjiang - no whites involved...
02.02.2024
Diversity training does more harm than goodWhen using an inappropriate word is treated as blasphemy rather than discourtesy, something has gone badly wrong...
26.01.2024
Americans are letting us downWhat would Trump have to do to put off his supporters? Run for a third term? Dissolve Congress? Expel a state from the Union?...
18.01.2024
The more we vote, the less we changeMore people will cast ballots in 2024 than in any previous year, yet democracy is in retreat worldwide...
14.01.2024
Is the woke madness finally lifting?Claudine Gay is right that she is a pawn in a bigger culture war - though perhaps not in the way she thinks...
06.01.2024
Is the Atlantic alliance on its last legs?Donald Trump may be an Anglophile, but he has never cared for the values that Nato exists to defend...
02.01.2024
With friends like these who needs Yemenis?The Houthis are a nasty bunch but, like the Taliban, will not be easily eradicated...
23.12.2023
Where’s the Tea Party when you need it?Just as after the American Revolution itself, tea partiers have melted away even as government has grown...
14.12.2023
Yes we should trade with ChinaTariffs have hurt America more than China, and strengthened the grip of the CPC...
05.12.2023
In New Zealand, the system worksWhy can't other countries learn from the sensible, measured Kiwis when it comes to politics?...
02.12.2023
Gaza is jammed into our culture warTell me where you stand on trans and BLM and I'll tell you, with 80 per cent accuracy, whether you favour Israel or Palestine...
27.11.2023
When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers doThe sudden spate of wars around the world is connected to the decline of international trade...
18.11.2023
What if no one wants peace?If one side will settle for nothing less than the annihilation of the other, a settlement becomes impossible...
08.11.2023
The Republican Party I loved is deadIf a decent patriot like Mike Pence is rejected solely for having defended the Constitution, the old GOP is irrecoverable...
04.11.2023
Israel’s empathy problemsAfter 9/11, we were all Americans; after the Paris attacks, JeSuisCharlie; but Israel is somehow different...
26.10.2023
What has Ireland got against Israel?You can tell whether you are in a unionist or republican part of Belfast by whether you see Stars of David or PLO banners...
11.10.2023
Putinite Republicans disgrace AmericaThe febrile state of US politics is partly the product of sustained Russian dezinformatsiya...
05.10.2023
There’s a reason people stopped believing their governmentsWhen governments engage in well-intentioned disinformation, they push people into conspiracy theories...
27.09.2023
My favourite ToryPierre Poilievre is proof that, even in a populist age, classical liberals can still win...
21.09.2023
Woke is just fashion - which is why it’s so tenaciousEven the Antiques Road Show has to go along with the nonsense of cultural restitution...
11.09.2023
To the Left of Genghis KhanThe idea that genocide makes you Right-wing is an extraordinarily revealing one...
08.09.2023
The lockdowns killed more than they savedYou can't interpret the data in any other way. It was the greatest policy failure of the century...
28.08.2023
What does it take for a libertarian to be electable?Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes! His floating hair!...
24.08.2023
The voters, not the courts, should stop TrumpTheir failure to do so is unbearably depressing for friends of America...
18.08.2023
What’s special about being aboriginal?Try substituting "indigenous British" for "indigenous Australian" and see how the argument for extra rights sounds...
08.08.2023
What Putin has done is unforgivableTargeting Ukraine's cultural heritage serves no military purpose whatever...
02.08.2023
Protectionism - the destructive delusion that won’t go awayBob Lighthizer is the latest author to recycle the terrible argument, all the while imagining it is fresh and new...
15.07.2023
Our syncretic religionThe cult of the NHS depends on a series of dogmas that must be believed against all evidence...
06.07.2023
Adam Smith at 300 - as misunderstood as everThe Sage of Kirkcaldy was pretty much the opposite of the desiccated economist he is imagined to be...
02.07.2023
Anti-colonialism isn’t about the past, it’s about trashing the modern WestWhat began as Soviet propaganda is now taught as mainstream history...
21.06.2023
It’s all about the vibesDeSantis is clearly to the Right of Trump, Sunak to the right of Johnson - but vibes matter more than policy...
16.06.2023
Pakistan’s slide into authoritarianism is a problem for the WestSupporters of Imran Khan are being rounded up as the army tightens its grip...
06.06.2023
Civilisation - I’m looking at it nowInstead of using "Western civilisation" as a political bludgeon, put your screen aside and look at it...
