Government made the Covid crisis even worse
The case for extensive lockdowns rests on the dubious assumption that life itself is more important than getting on with living.
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The Queen’s passing will leave billions feeling numb. We’re not diminished by her death but strengthened by her life.
The democratic superpower we need
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West must muscle up for perilous times
If communist China takes Taiwan, it’s the end of the US-led global order that has given the world the best times in history.
What family doesn’t have its dirty linen?
An absorbing biography of Queen Elizabeth rummages into her private and personal life in a relentlessly unsparing chronicle of one family’s crises.
Entrenching race in Constitution drives us further apart
Inevitably, any referendum campaign will seek to exploit guilt about the past, even though nothing this generation does now can alter it.
Mourning nation’s ‘best friend from Japan’
The assassination of Shinzo Abe has sent shockwaves around the world because he was not just a distinguished former PM but had established Japan as the leading democracy of the western Pacific.
Recognition is needed but separate voice is not
Our cohesion as a nation is too important to be put at risk by a referendum that fails.
The West must do more to help heroic Ukraine
No one wants to provide a trigger for World War III, yet it’s hard to see Ukrainians maintaining a battlefield ascendancy without more help.
Putin gambles that the West is weak
Western democracies have culpably failed to boost military capability since Vladimir Putin’s ambitions became obvious and have indulged economic and cultural self-harm.
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