Sweden’s political panic attack
As violent crime soars, the Sweden Democrats gain support
World
Thursday
Tuesday
Fact check: Charlie Kirk’s beloved US-UK violent crime stat
The result may surprise you
Wednesday
What will Michael Cohen tell the FBI now?
As Manafort faces life in jail, he must regret not flipping on his old boss. Cohen did not make that mistake
Tuesday
How important is Christopher Steele’s libel win against the owners of a Russian bank?
It is a well-known tactic of oligarchs to use the courts to try to silence critics
Why ‘we’ got Turkey wrong (and China. And Russia. And Iraq)
Another foreign policy item bites the dust
Monday
Fact check: New York Times’s London foodie ‘knowledge’
You’d think they would have learned after last time…
Monday
What if the dreaded ‘pee tape’ is real?
A small-town Colorado newspaper may have stumbled on news of Trump’s kompromat.
Monday
How blockchain can beat state censorship
Information which might otherwise have been lost in the ether now lives on in an all-but indestructible form.
Thursday
Why America’s détente with Putin makes Belarus nervous
‘If we don’t survive these years, if we will fail, it means we will have to become part of some other state, or they will simply wipe their feet on us.’
Macron’s summer of discontent
The President of France’s biggest enemy is himself, as his personal style is getting up the noses of many French people
Wednesday
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Tuesday
‘Has mom been tested for STDs?’ The Manaforts’ home life and why it matters
Hacked text messages containing several damaging stories about the former campaign manager can now be viewed by anyone with an internet connection
Monday
Father Morris won’t be the last priest expelled from campus for having the ‘wrong’ beliefs
The chaplain led his parish in a ‘Rosary of reparation for the gross offence to God which is Pride Glasgow’.
Thursday
Boris Johnson: Why we sent the jihadi Beatles for trial in America
The diary of the former British Foreign Secretary.
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Only 55 per cent of Australians trust Uncle Sam to ‘act responsibly in the world’ — the lowest level recorded in polls.
The more extreme the left’s screeches, the greater the populist surge
If the Democratic Party are wondering why they’re losing young white men, they need look no further than Sweden.
Wednesday
How significant are Trump’s trade talks with the EU?
The President is declaring victory on the European front of his incipient trade war.
Trump betrays the elite sense that the US is always pure and democracy-loving
Welcome to American post-exceptionalism .
Monday
How NATO became the most sacred cow in the barn
Before Trump’s visit the Senate approved by a near-Soviet margin of 97-2 a resolution expressing ‘ironclad’ support for NATO.
Saturday
Sheriff David Clarke’s Russian connection
What connects Moscow, gun rights, and the Vice President? Cockburn has the answer…
