Carrie and Jill: the real summit
The remainder of the G7 summit is effortlessly overshadowed by the leaders’ spouses
World
Thursday
Friday
The UN’s anti-racism mission excludes Jews
Jew-hatred can only be acknowledged when it carries a tiki torch
Wednesday
John Cena’s car-crash Taiwan apology
‘You can’t CCP me’
Why did the Biden administration shut down Pompeo’s lab leak probe?
When it comes to Biden and China, watch what they do not what they say
Friday
How private should Prince Harry’s life be?
Harry bares his soul as he condemns a BBC documentary in which his mother bared hers
Tuesday
The international travel ban is cruel and unscientific
The policies on both sides of the Atlantic consist primarily of window dressing and virtue-signaling about political priors
Harry, Charles and the airing of dirty royal laundry
There seems to be no happy ending to this dismal drama of passive-aggressive blaming and shaming
Saturday
How Canada will conquer the US
Canada is on the march
Wednesday
Canada creeps towards totalitarianism
If the Canadian government doesn’t like the content you’re producing, they want to ensure you can’t make a living off it
Monday
Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s COVID lab
There are details emerging about the Wuhan Institute of Virology that merit further exploration
Tuesday
A letter from Canada: we’re handling COVID worse than you
The situation feels worse now than it did at the outset of the pandemic
Wednesday
Elena Ferrante’s Italian job
Ferrante was the Flaubert of the Pantsuit Nation, a harbinger of Hillary’s page-turning presidency
Sunday
Joe Biden is letting India down
India reported world record-breaking coronavirus infection rates for four days in a row
Wednesday
France wakes up to Woke
Paris is a target-rich environment for excitable racial separatists and merchants of grievance
Monday
Two spies, an explosion, and the new Czech rift with Russia
‘Putin is a murderer,’ read the signs carried by protestors outside the Russian Embassy in Prague on Sunday. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš stunned the Czech Republic by stating that evidence now links Russian GRU secret agents to a massive explosion which killed two people at an arms depot near the Moravian village of Vrbětice in 2014. Czech Minister of the Interior and acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamáček gave 18 diplomats known to be linked to Russian foreign intelligence 48 hours to leave the country, and compared the situation to the Salisbury poisoning in 2018. The Salisbury parallel was underlined by the announcement of a manhunt for Alexandr
Afghanistan — the long defeat
The war has exposed US military primacy as a chimera
Friday
The EU needs to stop playing politics with law
The Lugano convention – part of a tapestry of complicated international law agreements ensuring the courts of one country recognise the courts of another – has a dull name but it matters a great deal. Since the EU referendum, the convention has played a small role in the great internecine conflict between Britain and Brussels. Much energy has been wasted in this series of pointless bust-ups. And now, the EU is determined to use the Lugano convention – a playing field it claims to control – to ensure Britain pays a price for Brexit, by effectively blocking us from rejoining the convention. Why does this matter? Because without the convention,
Friday
Is the Pope a Chinese asset?
The Pontiff has kowtowed to Beijing
Wednesday
The American mess in the Ukraine
In early 2014, civil war broke out in the Donbass after a US-backed coup d’état
Sunday
Should we blame America?
It’s hard for Europeans to argue that ‘culture wars’ and ‘identity politics’ are American imports
