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Speaking to Moscow’s TASS news service on Wednesday, the veteran diplomat was asked whether 2021 would see a “vaccine war” between Russia and other countries working to roll out their jabs. He argued that Russia believes “it is only possible to effectively solve large-scale cross-border problems by uniting on the principles of …

With the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown restrictions, plus a US presidential election that sucked up everyone’s attention, 2020 provided a plethora of opportunities for celebrities to virtue signal and prove their SJW bona fides. Luckily, however, the woke beast that is the collective political thought bubble pushed by Hollywood …

So the deal has been agreed. This was always going to happen; as I pointed out a couple of weeks ago, Boris Johnson was clearly bluffing about his threats towards a no-deal and inevitably, there would be an agreement.  Not surprisingly, he and his government have not shied away from a …

At over 5,500 pages (around twice the length of the previous longest bill, passed in 1986), the bill has passed both House and Senate without being read by the vast majority of those voting in favor. Congressional leaders took the must-pass nature of the $900 billion package of long-overdue Covid-19 assistance as …

Let me set the scene. The world (we are told) is in the grip of a deadly plague. Health services (we are told) are on the brink of collapse. And just when you think things cannot get any worse, the horrific news comes down from on high that our invisible …

Cyber attacks, asymmetric conflicts and digital surveillance – the list of “threats” and “challenges” posed to the UK and its allies by an assertive Russia and China appears to be long, at least in the mind of the British top brass. General Sir Nick Carter defined Moscow as an “acute …

The Provincial Court of British Columbia hears 95 percent of all criminal cases in the Canadian province. Murderers, rapists, petty criminals, and parking offenders all have their day before its judges, with the most serious cases kicked upward to the Supreme Court of Canada. Chief Judge Melissa Gillespie, however, is …

True leadership is about making decisions. So, there should have been no other course of action for the CEOs of UK PLC than to cancel Christmas. Boris Johnson (England), Nicola Sturgeon (Scotland), Mark Drakeford (Wales) and Arlene Foster (Northern Ireland) originally backed Christmas, announcing people could travel freely around the …

Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of Dutch government funding of terrorist groups in Syria. Rutte initially tried to deny his involvement in the burial of the investigation but tenacious questioning from journalists forced him to admit his personal …

While recently promoting his memoir ‘Greenlights’ on comedian Russell Brand’s podcast ‘Under the Skin’, McConaughey was asked to weigh in on the “condemnation and criticism” of “ordinary working people” by the media and liberal Hollywood. “[There is] a kind of offhandedness, like, ‘Oh, they’re dumb, they’re voting for Brexit, they’re …