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Isolated Russia’s growing links with sinister states like North Korea, Iran and China is evidence of a new Axis of Evil

Putin’s isolated Russia’s growing links with sinister states like North Korea, Iran and China is evidence of a new Axis of Evil

A strange kind of recession

Yet when the jobs figures came out they showed the opposite. Payroll employment in the US rose by 528,000 in July – more than double what was predicted, edging the national unemployment rate down to 3.5 per cent.

The best response to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing

What happened in New York today cannot be allowed to win. The illiterate cannot be allowed to dictate the rules of literature.

This time, Britain must stand behind Salman Rushdie

Following the attack on the author of The Satanic Verses, we must remember not to repeat the response from some quarters in 1989

Migrant-loving lefties live in a Dreamerworld

Who are the “Dreamers” in America? In recent years the term has been used to describe young people who have been brought to America illegally, making fools of the people who followed the rules. We’ll see how well this goes. But if the left seriously thinks it can go on then, sorry, but they’re the […]

Backlash against woke capitalism splits the US

Republican fury at businesses that impose their ideology on staff and customers risks further entrenching division

Biden’s victories look a lot like defeats

In total it has taken America’s intelligence agencies almost a quarter of a century to find the man behind the African embassy bombings.

Joe Biden has just made his most dangerous blunder yet

After the humiliation of the exit from Kabul, the US president has now allowed himself to be perceived as malleable by China

Progressives want us to give up on New York. NYC is fighting back

In recent times New Yorkers have sometimes been criticized for being placid in the face of violent crime.

Why should straight white men ‘pass the power’?

When I see such a piece of public insult, a number of things cross my otherwise tranquil mind.

Tories can’t afford to knife each other any more

A dangerous Labour Party of radical no-nothings is waiting in the wings

Undocumented, underhoused chestfed kids are not in a recession, say Dems

Democrats have relabeled issues to sanitize them.