TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?
The campaign to ban TikTok has been going for almost as long as the viral video app has been operating in America. Now, after...
China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
The company at the heart of “Severance”, a celebrated TV show that just began its second season, features a department of “Ma...
A French-sponsored Ukrainian army brigade has been badly botched
The formation of Ukraine’s 155th army brigade was announced at the D-Day anniversary ceremony in Normandy last June, complete...
A TV dramatisation of Mussolini’s life inflames Italy
In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his governme...
Britain’s government has spooked markets and riled businesses
When politicians start talking about bond yields it is a sure sign that trouble is afoot. By that measure, the new year has b...
David Lammy’s plan to shake up Britain’s Foreign Office
FOR EUROCRATS, Sir Olly Robbins seemed like a relic of an age before Brexit sent the British establishment loopy. Theresa May...
Greg Gutfeld, America’s most popular late-night host, rules the airwaves
Recently Greg Gutfeld, who hosts America’s most popular late-night show, on Fox News, became a father for the first time at t...
Has the Royal Navy become too timid?
THE FINAL signal sent by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is etched in the minds of officers in the Royal Na...
Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth
Sandra Demontigny watched early-onset Alzheimer’s transform her athletic father from a robust patriarch into a battered shell...
How the AfD got its swagger back
IT IS A bitingly cold evening in Bautzen, a handsome town nestled in the hills of the Oberlausitz, deep in the east German st...