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Last Wednesday in Washington was magnificent – the alchemy of a great republic’s democratic rituals, inspiring sentiments that did not fall into schmaltz, and the best of pop culture. Then there was the small matter of getting rid of the perpetrator of the Big Lie and welcoming a president who promised a new dawn, personified in Joe Biden’s dignity and decency. “ Democracy has prevailed,” he declared. “There is truth and there are lies told for...

Paul Mason writes that a Biden US presidency allied to an EU pursuing ‘strategic autonomy’ leaves a ‘sovereign’ UK with a bit-part role.

AS the news broke of Richard Leonard’s resignation on Thursday afternoon BBC Radio Scotland valiantly tried to respond. In a moment that would…

Could there be anything more wearyingly predictable than another Lefty in charge of an Oxbridge college? Our leading universities have become a sort of Blairite donkey sanctuary for members of the soft-Left who have been put out to grass 12 January 2021 • 6:42pm Oxford has just released its offers to next year’s students with Cambridge due to follow shortly. For even the brightest boffins, boasting CVs stuffed with teacher-approved A stars, waiting for news is stressful. Every year, the vagaries of the admissions system see those who may seem shoo-ins on paper turned down, while Hail Ma...

The age of national self-interest must end if we are to vanquish the pandemic Will Hutton © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Last week, the “age of I” finally peaked. The 45-year rise of libertarianism reached its high tide. The doctrine that gave us Brexit, Trump and a wholly inadequate response to a global pandemic has been exposed for what it always was. A viable civilisation cannot be founded on the primacy of our own islands of self-interest. We humans have to hang together and if we don’t this deadly virus punishes us with isolation,...