This Christmas, I call a Brexit truce
I hate Christmas markets. Crucify me, but I loathe them. Every December, the parks of Europe are transformed into Poundshop medieval hamlets, kitted out with everything from ramshackle ferris wheels…
Brexit shows us it’s time for a new Cromwell
For months I have waited with bated breath for the men in white coats to show up and wheel away the unfortunate victims of Mad Brexiteer Disease, who still run…
Male Suicide: the killer that dare not speak its name
Every two hours, a man in Britain kills himself. Last week, this statistic became a cruel reality. As some readers may know, a beloved student at the University of Edinburgh…
The Vietnam model is a cautionary tale for Kim Jong Un
Fifty years ago, this part of Vietnam was a pile of smouldering ash, levelled by American bombers. This month, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was welcomed in the sprawling…
Why won’t Trump stand up for the West?
‘They say they think it’s Russia, I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia’. That was Donald Trump, the leader of the free world, standing next to Vladimir…
May’s made a decision that might be her last
One cannot help but be grateful to Boris Johnson. Just when the flow of the global political tsunami seemed to have reached a normalising ebb, the Foreign Secretary of the…
Why immigration is the EU’s Achilles’ heel
Since German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s controversial decision to throw the doors of Europe open to millions of migrants in 2015, a growing minority of pundits have postulated migration will be the…
Ignore the nationalists at your own peril
It reads like something out of a 19th century European history book. Steve Bannon, former Breitbart editor, Trump strategist and leading light of the American alt-right, recently hosted a Congress…
The world is the realist’s oyster
When it comes to understanding the world around us, we are our own greatest adversaries. The cognitive biases that lurk under the the film of ideology quietly obscure the clarity…
A cynic’s guide to the Singapore summit
Deals, Donald Trump firmly believes, are never win-win. They are zero-sum, with a winner (always Trump), and a loser (usually Europeans). But after re-emerging from his historic meeting with Kim…
Is a Royal Wedding the moral equivalent of war?
All through May, British media has unloaded an unstoppable barrage of coverage on the Royal Wedding. The dress! The ceremony! The flowers! No aspect of an otherwise conventional Western practice…
Yeezus or Judas? Liberal elite wants Kanye to repent for his tweets
Kanye West is a maverick in an otherwise monolithic world of pop stars. He has courted controversy his entire life within the public sphere, and where others have an entire…
Why Kim Jong Un won’t give up The Bomb
The world sure does turn quickly. One minute people are digging up Cold War-era bomb shelters in anticipation of WW3, the next Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, and his South…
Media ignoring the next big refugee crisis
It is well known that the media is ill-equipped to handle several international crises simultaneously. And thus it is inherently not well known which international crises are left out of…
Shoot first think later: The Trump administration
There’s a fascinating passage in Martin Wolff’s Fire and Fury that details the steps Trump’s aides had to go to in order to convince the President to give approval for…
Overseas aid is a Western wolf in sheep’s clothing
You can almost taste the irony. Oxfam, the unassailably moral darling of the charitable establishment, which has accused capitalism (from which it has profited substantially) of causing world poverty, was…
Anti-racist, anti-facist, anti-Semite? Millennials have forgotten the Holocaust
In one of the most disgusting cases of antisemitism we have seen in recent years, Mireille Knoll, an 85-year old French Holocaust survivor, was stabbed 11 times, then burned to…
There’s nowhere to hide from Cambridge Analytica, nowhere at all
It’s been a tough few years for globalists. At an exponential rate, all that they heralded as vessels to bring us closer together – free trade, open borders, the future…
Corbyn’s silence on Russia shows why he’s unfit for No. 10
The ‘unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom’ is what Theresa May called the attempted murder of former Russian agent Sergei Skripal. That’s about as…
Borders underpin international order
Last week my fellow columnist Lucy Hodgeon wrote a piece on whether borders have been made redundant by globalisation. It was original, thought-provoking and brilliantly written. I categorically disagree with it….
The World’s Most Dangerous War
Even with ISIS gone, Syria has never been a more dangerous theatre of war. ISIS was, until recently, the most lethal threat to international security in the Middle East. A…
How I stopped worrying and learned to love Corbyn
British politics has seen better days. Take one look at Theresa May’s cabinet, and you’ll see a crew arguing which way to sail a beached ship. Then feast your eyes…
The real threat to democracy? Millennials
The Baby Boomers will be remembered as the luckiest generation in history. But the millennials will be remembered as the most spoiled. Previous generations perceived democracy as the moral antithesis…
LIVE: The Trump Show is a farce not a tragedy
The anti-Trump church has a large congregation these days. The mainstream media, having recently moved on from denial, is now at the second stage of grief, anger. I do not…
