Politics

It's been a tough election for the BBC, and the Tories making it clear in their manifesto that they regard the state broadcaster as a mere propaganda tool ready for...

Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by...

The annual Victoria's Secret show usually takes place in New York. But this year, it's off to a lead-lined casket in the MeToo graveyard, next to the bikini segment of...

Recent attempts to address bias and stereotypes – including bias training in the workplace, bias reporting hotlines on campuses, and warnings about bias and racism in movies – are not...

Many view India's ballooning population –set to overtake China's by the next decade– as a ticking time-bomb, but a solution is now at hand that, nevertheless, has taken four long...

Unreconstructed neocon Paul Wolfowitz has slammed President Donald Trump for ‘abandoning' the Kurds, insisting the US will need them next time there's a war in Syria. Trump's blunder, then, is...

Failing to meet the UN deadline this week to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, the UK is now isolated from allies who had abstained on the issue, after...

The online world exploded this week as the BBC series 'The Apprentice' was accused of racism. 'Boss' Lord Alan Sugar told a Venezuelan contestant: “No wonder your country is in...

With Western armed forces already using embedded reporters to tell the story they prefer, a UK think tank now calls for national security training for journalists so they don't help...

As cancel culture and the PC police creep closer to high art, where are the critics prepared to stand up to the Twitter mobs to save everything we have loved...

News that the principal Grenfell Tower contractor won a new £99 million ($128 million) contract to redevelop a London council estate might seem shocking, but really it's unsurprising given the...

Professional journalists are losing touch with the moral code that once galvanized the profession, a new study shows. But what truth-slinger wouldn't be having an existential crisis in an industry...

It wasn't a good time to celebrate Christmas after the Second English Civil War. During the rise of Oliver Cromwell in the mid-17th century, Christmas was illegal – it was...

The British royal family rarely give interviews, and watching Prince Andrew defend himself against allegations of underage sex and associating with a known paedophile, it became very clear why. The...

As part of its ‘Gaming is for Everyone' initiative, Microsoft and Dontnod announced ‘Tell Me Why,' boasting that it is the 1st game from a major studio to ever feature...

The causes of Iran's political unrest, unquestionably applauded by the usual suspects within the Trump administration, appears to be closely linked to Trump's current maximum pressure campaign targeting the Islamic...

Coldplay have announced that they will no longer tour unless their concerts can be carbon neutral. While a world without Coldplay may sound great, is the move a green PR...

Chick-Fil-A committed a grave error by ending donations to Christian groups dubbed “anti-LGBTQ” – not because the LGBTQ community “wins,” but because religious and other expression effectively loses. Chick-Fil-A announced...

In his full-bore efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff has repeatedly demanded that the whistleblower responsible for the fiasco need protection. Just don't mention Snowden, Assange or...

US President Donald Trump is putting reporters' lives at risk by calling them names, NY Times executive editor Dean Baquet laments. If only he felt the same concern for the...

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab dismisses the row over Tory fake fact-checking account used in TV leaders debate, saying “no one gives a toss” about the social media cut and thrust,...

With gang crime soaring in Sweden, the country's Prime Minister still refuses to blame immigration for the problem. The statistics prove him wrong, but in Sweden, social justice is more...

A new and strangely timed NATO video paints a flattering – and entirely fraudulent – picture of the alliance's mission in Kosovo, a Serbian province it occupied in 1999 that...

In my experience of the regime change operations in East and Central Europe in the early 1990s, the creation of zones described as “democracy” or “anti-communist zones” by the insurgents...

As news organizations around the world announce their intention to switch from “Kiev” to “Kyiv”, this latest campaign of anti-Russia sentiment disguises economic and social problems in one of the...

The Swedish prosecutors' decision to end the investigation of Julian Assange—for the third time—confirms that the sexual-misconduct accusations were always a cynical ploy to trap the publisher in a Kafkaesque...

The US Constitution clearly says that the president creates foreign policy. Listening to the impeachment hearings, however, one might be tempted to think it's really the “interagency consensus” or National...

The new ‘Charlie's Angels' movie is more proof that vacuous and vapid woke feminist films are box office poison. Will Hollywood learn from this critical and financial failure? ‘Charlie's Angels',...

Though the latest unrest in Iran about the rising prices of fuel started as a purely internal issue, Washington quickly inserted itself into the dispute, seeking to advance its agenda...

As purveyors of modern news can attest, it's common for the media to forcefully nurture stories into being in a desperate bid for clicks. This is exactly what happened with...

Why have the biggest and most profitable American corporations embraced leftist politics, as seen in their woke advertising and social justice activism? Hint: It's not because they've become non-profits and...

Belief in a flat Earth is becoming fashionable. Scientists and other guardians of common sense are bemoaning this irrational development, yet we'd be better off seeing it as a very...

Few terms these days are as abused as the designation ‘Ally.' Ukraine, we are assured, is a US ally. The Kurds, too, are supposedly US allies. And, of course, Israel...

A new record was set for baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi last week, when her work sold for an impressive €4.8 million ($5.3 million) at a Paris auction. But does her...

British PM Boris Johnson has voiced some harsh views on Russia and its leadership in recent years but during a radio phone-in, he tried to mend fences when questions arose...

In a not-at-all-surprising situation given that this happens far too often, South Park is facing criticism from woke folk who are taking umbrage that a show, known for offending people,...

The shiniest new weapon in Disney's all-out woke culture war, Frozen 2, which comes out later this month, will teach your toddler to be a better man and encourage you...

Here we go again. Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi have put the US government into a state of suspended animation as impeachment hearings against Trump go live. What insanity has...

Questions remain about the circumstances that lead to the ouster of Bolivia's socialist leader, Evo Morales, and whether foreign governments played a role in it, but recent history provides grounds...

Billionaires are scrambling to ward off the specter of populist anger – from wealth taxes to increased regulation – looming over an age of unprecedented inequality. Perhaps they should have...