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...
02.06.2023
Am I the last fusionist?Bill Buckley saw the creation of the anti-socialist coalition, and I have a horrible feeling that I am seeing its end...
23.05.2023
The return of the strongmanAuthoritarian rulers are in the ascendant all over the world, and the liberal interlude is coming to an end...
17.05.2023
Why are there so few Muslim democracies?Not because ordinary Muslims don't want it, but because local elites won't allow it...
07.05.2023
The primitive essence of monarchyCharles III's coronation preserves a rite that stretches back 3,000 years...
05.05.2023
Republicans seem set to pick the only candidate Biden beatsThe burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire...
26.04.2023
You know who Cleopatra really did look like?Is it OK to impose our values on Egyptians when we do so in the name of empowering kick-ass black girlbosses?...
19.04.2023
Biden’s facile version of IrishnessHistory is rarely a goodies and baddies morality tale - and certainly not in Northern Ireland...
11.04.2023
Americans! Join the CPTPP!If Britain sees benefits from the Pacific trade nexus, the US - which largely designed the deal - is crazy to stand aside...
14.03.2023
What the hell were they thinking when they invaded Iraq?Twenty years ago, good men, advised by knowledgeable foreign policy experts, launched the West's worst foreign policy blunder...
08.03.2023
Our new blasphemy lawsEvery society seems to need taboos, no-go areas; woke has taken the place of religion...
23.02.2023
The terrible price of identity politicsThousands of girls were abused because of our religious elevation of anti-racism...
15.02.2023
Nepo babies are a reminder of how everything used to workWe notice them only because Western societies have, exceptionally, moved from status to contract...
08.02.2023
America’s trigger-happy copsIf we had faced up to the culture of impunity rather than focusing just on the racism, we might not be in this mess...
01.02.2023
America slides back into protectionismThe Inflation Reduction Act is sparking a series of 1930s-style beggar-my-neighbour responses...
26.01.2023
Everything considered, Britain is doing pretty wellWhat with Covid, the Ukraine war and a global slowdown, the UK is performing well relative to the EU...
18.01.2023
Harry unwittingly reminds us of how dangerous the hereditary principle can beWhat if the spoiled, petulant nitwit had somehow been next in line?...
06.01.2023
Is it racist to ask where someone is really from?Yes - but for reasons that invalidate pretty much the entire BLM movement...
22.12.2022
The US is far from being “an extraordinarily racist country”Racism exists in most societies, but the US is unusual in promoting the individualism that is its antidote...
07.12.2022
When did everyone become anti-lockdown?The response to the China protests demonstrates what, deep down, we don't want to admit - it was all for nothing...
02.12.2022
What will a defeated Russia have to give up?Talk will eventually move on from reparations and war crimes trials to Karelia, Köningsberg and the Kuril Islands...
24.11.2022
The lunacy of climate reparationsFar from asking for compensation, poorer countries should be thanking richer ones for industrialisation...
10.11.2022
There is no such thing as positive discriminationThose US colleges that admit on the basis of race are doing exactly what 1930s fascist regimes did...
04.11.2022
The Right’s indifference to the first non-white PM has sent Leftists into meltdownBritish "anti-racists" keep trying to import the story of the American civil rights struggle ...
27.10.2022
Liz Truss was a victim of the lockdownsAfter Covid, everyone wants subsidies and no one cares about how to pay for them...
20.10.2022
Civil wars begin more easily than you thinkThe exhumation of José Antonio Primo de Rivera reminds Spain of some unpleasant truths...
