dougiem

In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.

Almost a decade ago the Irish academic Liam Kennedy published a tremendous book with the title Unhappy the Land: the Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? It is a dissection of one of the most curious pathologies in the world: the desire to have been oppressed; a glorying in being repressed.

Since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 there have been no face-to-face meetings between the leaders of Russia and the US.

He appears to be guilty of that most common of modern crimes: being found to have lived in the past.

Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear rival Andrew Cuomo by associating him with President Donald Trump.

One of the occupational hazards of being a journalist is being hounded by litigants. Indeed, one of the reasons why much of the media finds it easier to report fluff than to write about difficult issues is that the latter can be costly in terms of money, as well as time.

“Deflection,” “Distraction” and “Dishonest” are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he’d like to look into past Democrat conspiracies against him.…

There are deep ructions across Europe, as in Britain. All come down to the same thing. The societies in question have decided to take in more people than they could ever absorb or integrate, and have done so at a rate that will ruin these societies financially as well as socially. It’s a little late

Palestinianism is a creed that is entrenching divisions and transforming our culture for the worse

Bill Clinton published another memoir last year, entitled Citizen, and I take it that everyone read the book the minute it came out. For those who somehow didn’t, there’s a striking passage that can be easily found by standing in a bookshop, going to the index and searching under ‘E’ for ‘Epstein’.