In Ireland, secular progressivism has become the prevailing orthodoxy, as it goes through its second generation of anti-Catholicism. Israel has fallen foul of it. The deeply entwined roots of Irish and Jewish nationalism have been ripped out by a new political class.
Parties of the left will seek to clothe reproductive rights and assisted dying in the same moral superiority. All the time we will be asked to celebrate the primacy of choice.
Gillard said her exit from politics was inexplicable without taking gender into account. So did Clinton. Perhaps the reason is that the progressive faith in gender before talent has given us women who just aren’t very good.
The movement Trump has unleashed will redefine American government and culture – and that of the wider West – for decades to come. We are all now part of the Age of Trump.
Harris has revealed a fundamental pragmatism that may be enough to get her elected. More people are about to vote for her than for any leader in US history.
Why is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East so hated by people living in other liberal democracies?
Scoring the debate like a boxing match, there was a clear winner. But the Democrats could have hardly contrived a more Harris-friendly Grand Inquisitor.
Harris does not want abortion ‘safe, legal and celebrated’ only in California and New York. She wants it nationalised into Alabama and Wyoming. This is a recipe for polarisation and conflict.
National Tertiary Education Union was complicit in enabling Hamas sympathisers to occupy our campuses this year. Stuffed under my office door last week was a breathless call to cut ties with the world’s only Jewish state.
Vance won’t win Trump the centrist voters he needs. But in picking JD Vance, Trump has, possibly inadvertently, guaranteed the transformation of his party – and of American politics.
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