Biden’s grand strategy—yes, surprisingly, he has one—is to align US interests with woke ideology. Consider, for example, his strategy to promote democracy around the world and the money earmarked to achieve that end. It turns out that such support will be going to programs for 'women and girls', 'empowering the LGBTQI community' and to 'worker organisations'

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Question America's chaotic, state-supervised federal elections and you’re an 'election denier', therefore an enemy of democracy and most likely a Trumpist conspiracy peddler. As President Biden’s press spokesman has said of those long delays in tallying votes -- inexplicable to citizens of efficient democracies -- that’s how the system is intended to work. Well, yes, exactly as intended

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On the afternoon of the Queen’s death, I was attending a conference of the Common Sense Society on history and politics at Bowood House, a splendid stately home owned by the Lansdowne family, planted confidently in Wiltshire’s heart of England. Apart from a few people, mainly lecturers, most of the conference attendees were not British […]

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Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, the transfer of powers from national governments to supranational bodies, courts and enforcement agencies has continued apace, nationalism and patriotism being seen by progressives as obstacles to a new post-national, post-democratic age. Now, and not before time, the national conservatism of Reagan and Thatcher is reasserting itself

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Britain awaits the announcement of its next PM on September 5, but regardless of who wins the psychological crisis of Toryism can’t be cured until the party regains its grasp of sound money, prudent economic management and a culture of enterprise. It has 28 months to do so before an election -- and a perfect storm to navigate until then

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The US Supreme Court's rejection of the notion that the Constitution guarantees a right to abortion has handed a lot of painful moral decisions to all the voters and legislators in fifty states. Many surprises lie ahead. But most Americans seem unlikely to endorse post- and partial-birth abortion with the nearly unanimous alacrity of the Senate Democrats

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Putin’s calculation that the West would accept his Georgia victory and return to business-as-usual after a brief diplomatic resistance set the stage for his Ukraine offensive. Where he failed was in forgetting the limits of military power, believing his strategic instincts to be infallible and staking all on a blitzkrieg to seize Kyiv

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“A man who starts a war enters a dark room.” I sent out this quote in a tweet a few weeks before the start of the full-scale Russo-Ukrainian war. To avoid any possible misunderstanding, I pointed out that though the words were those of Adolf Hitler whom I would normally quote only to condemn, he […]

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A negotiated settlement, whatever its weaknesses, would at least end the killing in Ukraine. If it would also restore sovereignty and show clearly that Putin’s adventurism has failed, that would be the best possible outcome. A Ukrainian defeat, with the likelihood of a long and bloody guerilla campaign to follow, would plainly be a tragedy

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The ledger of ruinous edicts enshrined as public policy made no distinction between dying 'with' or dying 'of' COVID. Next came the suppression of medical information at variance with orthodoxy, censoring dissenting scientists and constant, taxpayer-funded ad campaigns 'nudging' the populace to accept lockdowns, curfews, closed borders and social exclusion as rational, essential and never, ever to be questioned

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