France wakes up to Woke
Paris is a target-rich environment for excitable racial separatists and merchants of grievance
World
Wednesday
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
Tuesday
Nobody believes China
Except the World Health Organization and the US media
Friday
REVEALED: the Pentagon’s amazingly silly anti-Russia meme
‘The graphics may not be shaping adversary behavior’
Tuesday
How to overcome the new fear of flying
With few exceptions, almost every single person tried to talk us out of going
Monday
The American media: the CCP’s useful idiots
Why are our journalists enabling an authoritarian ethnostate?
Bristol is Britain’s Portland
Rioters dressed in black bloc as they set dumpsters on fire to block streets
Friday
A diplomatic disaster in Alaska
Why the Biden administration’s meeting with Chinese officials was a debacle
Thursday
The Beijing Winter Olympics boycott is doomed
If you want something to fail, just ask Mitt Romney to back it
The spies who cancel us
The British security establishment thinks ‘whiteness is the problem’
Wednesday
How China targets Uighur expats in the US
Some prominent activists say they’ve been tracked down several times
Sunday
The Windsors are the first and best reality TV family
The Oprah/Meghan special was two hours of juicy and totally irrelevant gossip. What bliss
The House of Windsor must fall
We are witnessing a clash of worldviews on primetime
Monday
When a Nobel Peace Prize-winner goes to war
The Tigray war demonstrates the folly of presumptuously celebrating peace
Friday
Amnesty travesty
By supporting trans extremism, the group has betrayed its mission
