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Thursday
Is Germany ready for military service?
It’s finally crunch time for Boris Pistorius’s plan to reintroduce military service in Germany. Following a delay of several months thanks to the country’s snap federal election campaign at the start of the year, the defense minister’s new “Modernization of Military Service” draft law is currently being debated in Berlin. Under Pistorius’s proposals, all 18-year-olds
Is Meghan Markle making a thespian comeback?
As Britain’s royal family attempts to maintain a “business as usual” approach in the aftermath of the biggest scandal to have engulfed the institution in decades, the pair responsible for its last existential embarrassment have been notably silent. You might have expected, as Andrew was showily stripped of all his titles, some sanctimonious comment on
China is holding the West to ransom over rare earths
China’s naked weaponization of rare earths brings to mind Mao Zedong’s “four pests” campaign, the old tyrant’s fanatical effort to exterminate all flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, which turned into a spectacular piece of self-harm. Sparrows were always an odd choice of enemy, but Mao and his communist advisors reckoned each one ate four pounds
What the UK can learn from Trump’s second term
When John Swinney, the Scottish National Party leader, and former ambassador Peter Mandelson visited Donald Trump in the Oval Office a few months ago, the President showed them three different models for his planned renovation of the East Wing of the White House, which he has demolished to build a new ballroom. “If you’re going
Lord Young goes to Washington
I’m writing this from Washington, DC, where I’ve spent the best part of a week talking to politicos and think-tankers about the state of free speech in the mother country. Don’t believe our Prime Minister when he says it’s in rude health, I’ve been telling them. It’s on life support and any pressure that can
Wednesday
New York is not the city that Mamdani pretends it is
There is an unhappy history of left-wing Britons getting involved in US elections. Back in 2004, the Guardian – the flagship organ of the British left – organized a letter-writing campaign, urging voters in the swing state of Ohio not to re-elect George W. Bush. The good people of Ohio didn’t take kindly to a bunch of
Establishment Democrats win in Minneapolis
Voters decided to stick with the lesser of two liberal evils
Far left is the new face of the Democratic party
If you think America doesn’t permit assisted suicide, you haven’t been watching the New York mayoral election. The city is deliberately killing itself. The country’s largest city, its financial and media capital, had a choice among three truly dreadful candidates: a deeply-tarnished former governor, a Republican who runs in every election except Homecoming Queen and
The cost of Zohran
William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. New York City is about to be governed by the Columbia University student body. A city that used to think of itself as grown up has just elected
Why do white men’s feelings matter more than black lesbians’?
So there you have it: the feelings of white men matter more than the rights of black lesbians. That’s the takeaway from the mad fracas at a Gold’s Gym in Los Angeles this week, where a female gym-goer by the name of Tish Hyman says her membership was unceremoniously revoked. Her offense? She dared to
Can Spanberger offer Virginia more than vague platitudes?
She campaigned on the basis of what she was not: not Trump, not MAGA
California’s Prop 50 passed because grifters were scared of losing their grift
Big government went all in to retain power behind the Sierra Curtain
Tuesday
Mayor Mamdani will terrify America
His presence in Gracie Mansion will send unmistakable messages to police and criminals alike
Democrats win New Jersey governorship with Trump scare tactics
Both parties clearly saw this election as an indicator for elections to come
Marjorie Taylor Greene auditions for The View
Joy Behar said, ‘you’re slamming Republicans too much. You’re taking my job’
Dick Cheney dies at 84
Former vice president Dick Cheney died last night aged 84. He arrived in Washington as a congressman for Wyoming, then became secretary for defense under George H.W. Bush and served for eight years as George W. Bush’s vice president. He was considered by many to have pulled the strings behind the Bush administration. What is
What to expect from today’s elections
The races are being talked of – rightly or not – as an early test for Trump
How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump
Instead of vilifying Cheney, MAGA-world should offer him a bouquet of appreciation
Do black lives still matter?
It was an ethnic massacre so bad that it could be seen from space. Satellites picked up bloodied patches of soil in North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, after Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) swept into the besieged city. Pools of blood and piles of bodies were identified. Thousands of people are feared to have died in
The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is in danger of shattering
It’s been almost a year since Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that arguably held more power in Lebanon than the government itself, signed a ceasefire to end a ferocious two-month long war. The deal couldn’t have come at a better time; thousands of Israeli air and artillery strikes had pulverized southern Lebanon, Hezbollah’s traditional base
Monday
Why Taylor Sheridan quit Paramount
Sheridan has been working at a rate of energy that would kill many lesser men
Trump refuses to take 60 Minutes bait
The President was calm – and even counterintuitive
Revealed: BBC doctored Trump January 6 speech
A deceptive splicing of clips in a documentary made it look like the President had ordered the storming of the Capitol
How Republicans can win New York?
Maud Maron – who is standing for Manhattan DA – says the city would vote for a moderate Republican mayor
Sunday
Macron has declared war on free speech
Emmanuel Macron says Europeans should stop relying on social media for their news and turn back to traditional public media. Speaking in Paris on Wednesday, he said people were “completely wrong” to use social networks for information and should instead depend on journalists and established outlets. Social platforms, he argued, are driven by a ‘process
Britain’s reverse imperialism
Americans must confront the colonization the British are enduring – or suffer the same fate
King Charles and Pope Leo share the same religion
They preach environmental sustainability through draconian measures – at the expense of common sense and science
Saturday
Trump plays battleships
The President says the battleship will return as the centerpiece of his new Golden Fleet
Friday
When foreign-policy critique becomes blood libel
As on the left, there’s a significant number of people on the political right who simply hate the Jews
The logic of Trump resuming nuclear weapons testing
In this fraught international context, Trump is acting totally sane
‘Nuking’ the filibuster would only aid Democrats
Trump’s plan would mean statehood for Washington, DC and Puerto Rico and sweeping firearms restrictions
Pray for the persecuted Christian church
Christianity is today the most oppressed religion in the world
Thursday
Activist silence over Sudan speaks volumes
Forces that mobilized over Gaza have, in the case of atrocities being committed in Sudan, fallen almost entirely silent
