Maybe the best analysis of the Meghan–Harry–Oprah­ interview came the next day in a tweet from my old friend (and National Review colleague) Ramesh Ponnuru: “Got to think this interview would have gone v differently if Netflix hadn’t run The Crown.” He’s undoubtedly right. To be sure, other factors influenced both how the interview was […]

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There’s an appetite in the media, political, business and diplomatic elites for stories showing that the royals — and indeed the Brits more generally — are deeply racist under a polite facade. The truth is that the House of Windsor takes no account of race because, in multicultural Britain, it couldn't afford to do so even if the inclination were there, which it isn't

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Tony Blair, a passionate but thoughtful Europhile, recently argued that while he hoped Britain would one day rejoin the EU, that could only happen if Brexit were a success. A failed Britain would not be re-admitted on anything like acceptable terms, meaning Remainers should therefore abandon any last-ditch opposition and make Brexit work

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The Netflix series is fine entertainment, albeit a production that has succumbed over four seasons to the temptation that seems to afflict so many who set out to dramatise history: manipulating the record to showcase a designated villain. In this instance, inevitably, it is a much maligned Margaret Thatcher

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The nastier post-election sentiment on the jubilant Left is that the Trump movement must be demobilised by others if it won’t demobilise itself. Good luck with that, Democrats. That legion of Deplorables isn't going to embrace compliant docility after the 'stolen election'

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Should Trump lose we'll be in uncharted waters. The Democrats might even impeach him to ram home the “illegitimacy” message and cripple his ability issue pardons. As the media, Hollywood, academia, the China lobby and Big Tech cheer, Russiagate prosecutions would be dropped along with any other investigations likely to embarrass Clinton or Obama

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The critical race theory of Black Lives Matter is indeed a doctrine marked by 'complexity', as the New York Times would have us believe. If your panacea is constructed from a load of old falsehoods, you can hold it together only by the most complex Heath Robinson string-glue-and-sealing-wax logic

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Here's a vision deeply to be wished for: the Anglosphere countries begin to harmonise their regulations and standards for both products and services. This further encourages trade between them, constitutes a non-tariff barrier to outsiders and grows out of the shared ties of language, law and heritage

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Conventional wisdom holds she stayed too long. It’s an than arguable view, but does it do justice to the achievements of her final years? Shepherding South Africa out of apartheid was one of the quiet triumphs, while her moral support for the besieged Boris Yeltsin shamed leaders who accepted the attempted coup as a fait accompli

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Because the central claims of the revolutionary cause are false and some of its actions unlawfully violent, its propaganda outlets have to lie and obfuscate. Here is how BBC news reported the first London protests: '27 police officers injured during largely peaceful anti-racism protests in London'

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