Politics

No one like to be on the losing side of a political battle. Until recently the emotional reaction of a loser was expressed through frustration or anger. Now we're told...

There's no academic reason for Labour's war on independent schools. It's all about the politics of hatred and jealousy. There can be no winners, but the biggest losers will be...

Following Washington's lead, the Aussie opposition is pressuring Canberra to release details of a call it had with Donald Trump. Are private talks between world leaders threatened with extinction? It...

A US Department of Defense agency is currently looking at ways to alter one's biology to provide adequate protection for personnel from chemical and biological attacks. There will come a...

Filmmaker Todd Phillips triggered more than a few 'woke' critics when he blamed the overly sensitive climate engulfing comedy - in which any controversial material becomes 'problematic' - for killing...

One hundred and fifty years on from the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, what lessons can we draw today about the way he helped achieve Indian independence? He was the ‘great...

The discovery that a senior Twitter executive is also a British Army psy-ops warrior qualifies as a bombshell in every way. So naturally, the UK press either ignored it, or...

With nearly two fifths of jobs in the industrialized West in peril due to the rise of automation, humans are fighting back against the rollout of the technology that is...

Boris Johnson has a “very good” plan for the Irish border, but prefers to keep the details veiled in “decent obscurity” for now. With days left to strike a deal,...

Washington's political football has taken another bounce, skipping from Russia to Ukraine in just days. Democrats made the move to impeach Trump, but why only now? Like some rogue cyborg...

Сritics and woke people are up in arms over the Joker movie because they think “evil” white men will like it and be inspired to kill. It used to be...

While mistakes of the Soviet Union put it in the museum, China's capacity to adapt and reinvent itself could soon make it the most important country in the world. Last...

Critics have reacted to President Donald Trump's Twitter warning about his impeachment causing a civil war with both shrieks of outrage and jokes. Notably absent: any self-awareness of such a...

The Washington Post's attempt to highlight “five myths about Ukraine” is more yarn than verity, and sets out to mislead readers. It also suggests fact-checking is now non-existent at the...

The man whose case launched France's #MeToo movement has won damages in a defamation case, but it's a Pyrrhic victory at best, celebrated on the ruins of cultural norms and...

Don't like Greta Thunberg's eco-agenda? Well then you're an angry, triggered manchild who should feel ashamed. At least that's the message spat with disdain by the media, and endorsed by...

Racism is disgusting, deplorable, and indefensible, but with the way the rules of prejudice are changing, it might just be easier to declare yourself a hate-filled bigot and be done...

Identity politics is shamelessly exploited by pro-war western Establishments to promote certain candidates, but only those who promote the ‘right' elite-friendly policy stances. She's the first from her ethnic background...

US President Donald Trump has one thing in common with his critics: both double or even triple down rather than admit failure,as shown by impeachment hearings in Washington and a...

The death of former French President Jacques Chirac should remind us how the architects of the Iraq War, who stress their ‘pro-European' credentials today, peddled crude Francophobia sixteen years ago....

The US has apparently learned it can use its leverage over natural resources to pursue a geopolitical chess game which sees it heavily countering Russia's influence over the future of...

By claiming that Communism was Nazism's ideological twin and that the USSR was as guilty as Germany for starting WWII, the EU Parliament is rejecting the findings of the Nuremberg...

Trump's address to the 74th UN General Assembly was less an address and more a long ultimatum in which he placed the world on notice: Mess with America, and you...

Britain never had a "Supreme Court" in the way it never had a "Constitution". Yet somehow the political system seemed to work after a fashion, if in a typically British...

The promise of technology, we were once told, is to liberate us to achieve our true potential. But it's becoming clear that our current technological direction is only making us...

Now that US military aid to Kiev has been weaponized in the rapidly heating civil war in Washington itself, it would be the perfect time to confront the fact that...

The Trump administration is admonished as a threat to journalism worldwide in a new oped penned by New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger. It's just a pity that in the...

Some 2.5 million US college students are reportedly “seeking arrangement” with older adults in hope of avoiding the yoke of student debt. With college costs out of control, monetizing desperation...

The UK government has ruled out a peaceful intervention to save historic travel agent Thomas Cook, and 9,000 jobs, but has declined to rule out (a far more expensive) military...

Having written hundreds of articles demonizing the amphibian meme as inherently sinister, news outlets have had to perform a quick 180 now that he has been adopted as the mascot...

Canadian premier Justin Trudeau has had to prostrate himself with groveling apologies for past “racist behavior” when, as a younger man, he showed a penchant for donning turbans and skin-darkening...

Americans are born and bred on famous brands like Big Macs, Slurpees and Cheetos, to the point that junk food has been elevated to an art form. But in this...

American opponents of readmitting Moscow to the former G8 fail to understand the consequences. Two years ago, I asked, “Will Russia Leave the West?” The world's largest territorial country—sprawling from...

The war drums beating in Washington, Riyadh, and Tel Aviv when it comes to Iran have not been this loud since the lead-up to the war in Iraq in 2003....

The Liberal Democrats conference in Bournemouth has shown us where ‘liberalism' is today, and it's a pretty dark place. If you have the wrong (i.e. unenlightened) views, the party which...

Vladimir Lenin is said to have opined that the only thing certain about British elections is who is going to lose. He meant the British working class, at a time...

Until recently, climate change was a phenomenon debated by scientists, policymakers, and Greenpeace crusties. But doomsday prophets pushing climate fear into the mainstream have anxious liberals running for professional help....

With the fifth anniversary of the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence upon us, for many in Scotland a second referendum cannot come soon enough. I write here as a Scot...

An explosive essay calling out the lack of legitimate expertise about Iran ought to be a wake-up call for the US foreign policy field. Yet the same problem also affects...

Michelle Obama might have been a 'classy' First Lady, but she has rarely done or said anything remarkable or even entertaining. That the media has deified her into the ultimate...