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If the Tories don’t end this obscene squandering of our money, they’ll pay a very heavy price

To imagine a year worse than this one would be hard. But to think of any period that has been worse for small and medium-sized businesses is frankly impossible.

Donald Trump won’t leave me alone

Ever since I saw him in Pensacola, Florida the other week, Donald J. Trump will not leave me alone.

The great lockdown hypocrites

California’s hardline governor has not been practising what he preaches. Maybe politicians should stop preaching

The Nobel Peace Prize has become an ignoble joke

Why does the committee keep honouring people who go on to be accused of violence and repression?

What happens after you’re cancelled?

The misery of becoming a non-person is described in agonising detail in a new book by Kevin Myers

Macron alone: where are France’s allies in the fight against Islamism?

In the best traditions of the Republic, Macron stressed the non-negotiability of French secularism

Why do John Major and Nick Clegg keeping dragging down Great Britain?

Sir John has been furious for years, since the British public failed to take his advice and voted for Brexit

America’s divisions will only get worse

Trump didn’t cause the vitriol and polarisation, and it won’t end now he’s gone

A warning to all those cheering Joe Biden’s win… he’s no friend of Britain

Britain has never had any great love for Donald Trump. His approval ratings among the public here rarely went above 25 per cent.

The cameras miss what’s really happening in Washington

On election day in the capital there is no thrill in the air, but there is a sound: that of hardboard being placed over all of Washington’s windows.

Washington is on a knife-edge — America needs prayers & more to get through election peacefully

WASHINGTON DC is on a knife-edge today with both sides trying to claim victory in the US election.

Even if he doesn’t win, this election proves that Trump is no white nationalist

His success among ethnic minorities means there are some slurs about him that should really be put to rest