The desperation of the ‘Seditious Six’
Their audience isn’t actually the military, but what remains of the anti-Trump ‘Resistance’
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Thursday
Wednesday
Donald Trump’s affordability blues
His administration remains fixated with Herbert Hoover economics
Why Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood crackdown is long overdue
Intelligence about the activities of Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese Islamists will rapidly implicate Qatar and Turkey as the Brotherhood’s key international sponsors
Climate doom is not science
A major paper predicting the economy will shrink by 62 percent has been withdrawn
Why Putin thinks he’s winning
Believing that time and destiny are on his side, Putin is sticking to his maximalist war aims
Tuesday
Trump’s cabinet is a liberal’s nightmare
At this point, YouTube might as well set up a 24-hour livestream from inside the White House, like the sorts of stunts that were popular at the dawn of the personal video era
Mamdani hires author of defund the police bible
Alex Vitale wrote ‘the problem is policing itself’
Monday
Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit
South Africa’s corruption and human rights abuses are deplorable
Sunday
Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man
As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Donald Trump’s peace plan, leaked recordings of a conversation with US envoy Steve Witkoff have thrown a spotlight on to senior diplomat Yuri Ushakov. It seems he, not Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is the prime mover behind Russia’s negotiating position. The stature of Lavrov, once
Saturday
Tom Stoppard was himself to the end
“Tom Stoppard is dead.” For anyone who cares for the theater, the English language, and especially for those of us who knew him, these words are as unthinkable as they are hard to bear. How can such a force of nature, such a generosity of spirit, such a voice of sanity, have fallen silent? And
Israel is turning the screws on Hezbollah
The killing of Lebanese Hezbollah military chief Haytham Ali Tababtabai by Israel this week reflects how much the balance of power between Jerusalem and the Iran-backed Shia Islamist group has shifted since the year-long war between the two in 2023 and 2024. Yet, paradoxically, Tabatabai’s killing also shows that nothing has been finally settled between
The downfall of Thomas King, Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former broadcaster Thomas King, isn’t actually indigenous at all. It matters, because King has spent much of his 82 years claiming to speak on behalf of the indigenous peoples of North America, and
Friday
How damaging could the Ukraine corruption scandal be for Zelensky?
The President’s top aide resigned after mounting pressure at home and abroad
Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?
Yesterday’s release of immigration figures by Britain’s Office of National Statistics didn’t make for particularly pleasant reading. While net migration had fallen to around 200,000 in the 12 months to June, much of this was down to an unusually high exodus of people, with 693,000 leaving the country over the same period. Many of those
Are J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio heading for a clash?
The imbroglio over the Ukraine peace deal has revealed some interesting tensions within the Trump administration
The strange death of England
Whatever happened to Britain, or the UK, or England, or whatever they’re calling it? We can’t even agree on what it’s called. But what happened to England, the England that, if you’re over 50, you grew up learning about, the England that controlled the world, the England that ran the largest empire in human history at the
Tucker plays the Joker to Piers Morgan
Tucker Carlson has a favorite stage persona: the last sane man in the world, now at the end of his tether
Thursday
Should Karoline Leavitt’s family be deported?
How will Americans respond when the idea of ‘mass deportations’ ceases to be an abstraction, and instead comes knocking on the door?
The ‘affordability’ delusion
During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York City mayor-elect, the contest was over which pol was the more patronizing. At one point Trump graciously granted his petitioner permission to call him a “fascist” while clearly implying the guy’s OTT campaign rhetoric had been
The science of marriage
“Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” With this stern admonition, the Church has long been a fervent defender of marriage. But as religion has faded as a social force, so too has marriage. Does it much matter if people choose to shack up together instead of tying the knot? What
Wednesday
Trump blames Biden for shooting of National Guardsmen
His response had the rhetorical footprints of Stephen Miller
Fact-checking the Venezuela war hawks
Proponents of regime change are throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks
The Comey dismissal is a miniature constitutional crisis
Judge Currie’s order is an astonishing power-grab by the judicial branch
Tuesday
Why would Putin sign Trump’s peace deal?
Everything turns on security guarantees, which are so far undefined
The battle for Ukraine’s electric grid
More than any conflict in history, the Russia-Ukraine war has been about electricity
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress
As an American who respects the constitutional role and historical continuity of the British crown, I view the recent congressional request to interview Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor with disgust. In early November, several of the most progressive Democratic members of the US Congress sent a letter asking him to participate in a “transcribed interview” regarding his past
Will Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?
For years, there was a broad consensus in Israel that there was no benefit to reintroducing the death penalty. But now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is reportedly considering supporting a bill which would bring back capital punishment for convicted terrorists. The bill, which has passed its first reading in the Knesset, would introduce the death
Monday
DoGE has had its day
DoGE has been DoGE’d. The once fearsome government efficiency office has been shut down eight months before its contract officially ends in July 2026. What was supposed to be an organization that exploded traditional ways of running the federal government has turned into a damp squib. It was established by President Trump on the first day of his second term in office. Headed by Tesla chief Elon
Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy
So much for simple Chinese takeout. In his never-ending search for economic growth, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has finally alighted on the obvious answer: cozying up to the liberal-minded democrats of Tiananmen Square. The Prime Minister is expected to fly to Beijing in the new year, once the long-awaited Chinese super-embassy in the
Russia is willing to keep on fighting in Ukraine
At a time when western commentators are tying themselves in knots trying to parse the ongoing Ukraine peace discussions, the Russian media is suddenly strikingly united in its coverage. There is a common misperception that, like their Soviet forebears, the Russian press simply reproduces some standard party line, day in, day out. In fact, there
Sunday
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
It is the 9/11 of the blue ticks, the Hindenburg of the grifters, the dotcom bubble of the slop-peddlers. The influencer industry has been left reeling by a new function on X which allows readers to see the location from which any given account is operating. The latest update makes it possible to establish when
ISIS is stirring once more
Indications that the Islamic State (ISIS) has begun to employ artificial intelligence in its efforts to recruit new fighters should come as no surprise. At the height of its power a decade ago, Isis was characterized by its combination of having mastered the latest methods of communication with an ideology and praxis that seemed to
Why Iran needs the Maduro regime
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and three warships have been sent to the Caribbean, where they are joining a dozen Navy warships already off the coast of Venezuela, in an unprecedented show of military force. President Trump and his administration are taking aim at the administration of Nicolas Maduro, over his alleged role in the drug
Friday
Zelensky risks coup or civil war
Chief among concerns is how the military might react to a bad deal
