04.11.2024

America’s godawful choice

One candidate was disqualified by policy, the other by personality...

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24.10.2024

Who knew the Aztecs were woke?

The row between Spain and Mexico shows the absurdities into which victim politics lead us...

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20.10.2024

Neither US party seems to want to win

The anti-Trumpers were there for the asking, had anyone made the effort...

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12.10.2024

Losing the Americas

The weakness of the US in Venezuela is noted around the region - and beyond...

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29.09.2024

Germany’s far right is back

One thing is driving the populist surge across Europe - crime...

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25.09.2024

Keep the hereditary peers

At least until you have something better to put in their place...

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19.09.2024

We shouldn’t mandate or ban masks

Or burqas or anything else...

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13.09.2024

The Cold War isn’t over; it isn’t even cold

From Nicaragua to Syria, old alliances still hold...

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09.09.2024

Don’t sulk about Kamala - dump Trump

It's not "a coup" to dump an unelectable candidate; Republicans should try it...

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29.08.2024

Two-Tier Keir

Let's hope the new crackdown signals a more general readiness to punish disorder...

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17.08.2024

Only regime change can save Venezuela

Are we going to let autocracy claim country after country?...

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08.08.2024

America is now literally governed by DEI

Lefties openly admit that Kamala is a diversity hire, but get furious when anyone else says so...

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30.07.2024

Elegy for the Grand Old Party

The Republican Party had a great run before being displaced by this monstrosity...

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26.07.2024

Did smartphones kill democracy?

Our screen-addled age is impatient, infantile and prone to conspiracy theories...

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14.07.2024

American democracy can’t take much more

The Supreme Court, notionally the referee, is now wholly divided along party lines...

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06.07.2024

Don’t worry about AI

All new technologies are decried as job-destroyers, but it is never true...

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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...

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24.06.2024

Lockdown omertà

Half the world is voting right now, but no country is talking about the single biggest issue...

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12.06.2024

Trump will end up joining Pacific trade pact

CPTPP is the most effective way to contain China's ambitions...

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08.06.2024

The cynicism of D-Day

We moved in one generation from "The Longest Day" to "Saving Private Ryan"...

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28.05.2024

When did the world start going backwards?

Was it the financial crisis, mass immigration, screen addiction or something else?...

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24.05.2024

When the fall is all there is, it matters

If Rishi Sunak must go down, it will be on his own terms, as a patriot who did his best...

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22.05.2024

After this, the UN has no place in Gaza

Whoever takes over the territory, there needs to be a policy of re-education, and that cannot happen through UNRWA...

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14.05.2024

The revolution will be catered

Campus radicalism is nothing new, but this self-absorbed whining can only have come from the smartphone generation...

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10.05.2024

Rwanda is an ideal destination

30 years after the worst genocide of the late 20th century, the country is booming...

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04.05.2024

Revenge is by definition pointless

It cannot right whatever wrong you have suffered, though it seems to be hardwired into our genome...

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26.04.2024

Don’t ban TikTok

It's a dreadful app, and the Chinese government is even more dreadful, but bans are never the answer...

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14.04.2024

Don’t change your rules at the demand of people who hate you

Free association is the basis of a free society - and that includes the Garrick Club...

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05.04.2024

The Republicans’ bad conscience

Mike Pence stands for the principles and ethics that all Republicans used to extol. No wonder they hate him...

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27.03.2024

The single biggest shift in US politics

Non-white voters are deserting the Dems in droves...

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18.03.2024

Run, Nikki, run!

Never has the US been readier for a third-party candidate...

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12.03.2024

The ugly tradition of Leftist anti-Semitism

What we are seeing now is not new, but part of a tradition stretching back to Karl Marx...

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04.03.2024

Multiculturalism or democracy - pick one

For Parliament to alter its procedures under threat of violence was a new low...

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28.02.2024

More elderly leaders, please!

Spare us from young thrusters with high testosterone and things to prove...

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20.02.2024

And after Trump?

Despite everything, there are encouraging signs that the Republicans still believe in free enterprise...

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11.02.2024

Is “settler colonialism” really a white thing?

West Papua, Iraqi Kurdistan, Western Sahara, Matabeleland, Chittagong Hills, Xinjiang - no whites involved...

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02.02.2024

Diversity training does more harm than good

When using an inappropriate word is treated as blasphemy rather than discourtesy, something has gone badly wrong...

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26.01.2024

Americans are letting us down

What would Trump have to do to put off his supporters? Run for a third term? Dissolve Congress? Expel a state from the Union?...

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18.01.2024

The more we vote, the less we change

More people will cast ballots in 2024 than in any previous year, yet democracy is in retreat worldwide...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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14.12.2023

Yes we should trade with China

Tariffs have hurt America more than China, and strengthened the grip of the CPC...

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05.12.2023

In New Zealand, the system works

Why can't other countries learn from the sensible, measured Kiwis when it comes to politics?...

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02.12.2023

Gaza is jammed into our culture war

Tell me where you stand on trans and BLM and I'll tell you, with 80 per cent accuracy, whether you favour Israel or Palestine...

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27.11.2023

When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers do

The sudden spate of wars around the world is connected to the decline of international trade...

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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...

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08.11.2023

The Republican Party I loved is dead

If a decent patriot like Mike Pence is rejected solely for having defended the Constitution, the old GOP is irrecoverable...

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04.11.2023

Israel’s empathy problems

After 9/11, we were all Americans; after the Paris attacks, JeSuisCharlie; but Israel is somehow different...

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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...

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20.10.2023

Why no JLM movement?

The answer, however we look at it, is an ugly one...

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11.10.2023

Putinite Republicans disgrace America

The febrile state of US politics is partly the product of sustained Russian dezinformatsiya...

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05.10.2023

There’s a reason people stopped believing their governments

When governments engage in well-intentioned disinformation, they push people into conspiracy theories...

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27.09.2023

My favourite Tory

Pierre Poilievre is proof that, even in a populist age, classical liberals can still win...

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21.09.2023

Woke is just fashion - which is why it’s so tenacious

Even the Antiques Road Show has to go along with the nonsense of cultural restitution...

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11.09.2023

To the Left of Genghis Khan

The idea that genocide makes you Right-wing is an extraordinarily revealing one...

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08.09.2023

The lockdowns killed more than they saved

You can't interpret the data in any other way. It was the greatest policy failure of the century...

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28.08.2023

What does it take for a libertarian to be electable?

Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes! His floating hair!...

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24.08.2023

The voters, not the courts, should stop Trump

Their failure to do so is unbearably depressing for friends of America...

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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...

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14.08.2023

How America was lost

Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée des États-Unis...

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08.08.2023

What Putin has done is unforgivable

Targeting Ukraine's cultural heritage serves no military purpose whatever...

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02.08.2023

Protectionism - the destructive delusion that won’t go away

Bob Lighthizer is the latest author to recycle the terrible argument, all the while imagining it is fresh and new...

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15.07.2023

Our syncretic religion

The cult of the NHS depends on a series of dogmas that must be believed against all evidence...

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06.07.2023

Adam Smith at 300 - as misunderstood as ever

The Sage of Kirkcaldy was pretty much the opposite of the desiccated economist he is imagined to be...

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02.07.2023

Anti-colonialism isn’t about the past, it’s about trashing the modern West

What began as Soviet propaganda is now taught as mainstream history...

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21.06.2023

It’s all about the vibes

DeSantis is clearly to the Right of Trump, Sunak to the right of Johnson - but vibes matter more than policy...

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16.06.2023

Pakistan’s slide into authoritarianism is a problem for the West

Supporters of Imran Khan are being rounded up as the army tightens its grip...

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06.06.2023

Civilisation - I’m looking at it now

Instead of using "Western civilisation" as a political bludgeon, put your screen aside and look at it...

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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...

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23.05.2023

The return of the strongman

Authoritarian rulers are in the ascendant all over the world, and the liberal interlude is coming to an end...

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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...

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07.05.2023

The primitive essence of monarchy

Charles III's coronation preserves a rite that stretches back 3,000 years...

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05.05.2023

Republicans seem set to pick the only candidate Biden beats

The burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wobbling back to the fire...

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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?...

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19.04.2023

Biden’s facile version of Irishness

History is rarely a goodies and baddies morality tale - and certainly not in Northern Ireland...

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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...

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03.04.2023

Welcome to the illiberal epoch

Autocracy is in the ascendant everywhere...

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25.03.2023

Why I left Twitter

You simply cannot remain on the platform and retain your dignity...

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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...

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08.03.2023

Our new blasphemy laws

Every society seems to need taboos, no-go areas; woke has taken the place of religion...

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28.02.2023

Russia needs to lose

There is no other path to peace...

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23.02.2023

The terrible price of identity politics

Thousands of girls were abused because of our religious elevation of anti-racism...

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15.02.2023

Nepo babies are a reminder of how everything used to work

We notice them only because Western societies have, exceptionally, moved from status to contract...

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08.02.2023

America’s trigger-happy cops

If we had faced up to the culture of impunity rather than focusing just on the racism, we might not be in this mess...

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01.02.2023

America slides back into protectionism

The Inflation Reduction Act is sparking a series of 1930s-style beggar-my-neighbour responses...

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26.01.2023

Everything considered, Britain is doing pretty well

What with Covid, the Ukraine war and a global slowdown, the UK is performing well relative to the EU...

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18.01.2023

Harry unwittingly reminds us of how dangerous the hereditary principle can be

What if the spoiled, petulant nitwit had somehow been next in line?...

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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...

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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...

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15.12.2022

The mullahs must fall

The international community should back Iran's protesters...

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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...

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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...

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24.11.2022

The lunacy of climate reparations

Far from asking for compensation, poorer countries should be thanking richer ones for industrialisation...

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18.11.2022

Return to normalcy

in a democracy, attacking democracy comes at a cost - thank God...

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10.11.2022

There is no such thing as positive discrimination

Those US colleges that admit on the basis of race are doing exactly what 1930s fascist regimes did...

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04.11.2022

The Right’s indifference to the first non-white PM has sent Leftists into meltdown

British "anti-racists" keep trying to import the story of the American civil rights struggle ...

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27.10.2022

Liz Truss was a victim of the lockdowns

After Covid, everyone wants subsidies and no one cares about how to pay for them...

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20.10.2022

Civil wars begin more easily than you think

The exhumation of José Antonio Primo de Rivera reminds Spain of some unpleasant truths...

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