James Ball
09 April 2025
Everyone hates Elon
The petulant far right billionaire rips up jobs, risks lives, makes Nazi salutes and taunts anyone who disagrees – then complains
Read the full article08 April 2025
Was Trump’s market carnage the plan all along?
Global finance's hopes that the White House would drop tariffs led to them jumping on a piece of fake news
Read the full article04 April 2025
Were Trump’s idiotic tariffs really generated by AI?
No complex calculations have gone into these import taxes - just reckless back-of-an-envelope stuff
Read the full article02 April 2025
Why do we all feel so much poorer?
Wages may be showing signs of improvement, but on its own that won’t solve the problem
Read the full article02 April 2025
Why Big Tech has never been weaker
The US giants have become sprawling conglomerates, precisely the kind of fat, complacent companies they once set out to disrupt
Read the full article27 March 2025
Is this really Labour’s vision?
Rachel Reeves seems happy to let 50,000 children live in poverty in order to make a spreadsheet add up on a Wednesday afternoon
Read the full article26 March 2025
We’re not ready for the next pandemic
Trump, foreign aid cuts and anti-vax hysteria have set the world back. We are less prepared than we were in 2020
Read the full article25 March 2025
Trump is about to blow up the spring statement
An April 2 tariff bombshell could make much of what Rachel Reeves says irrelevant
Read the full article20 March 2025
How Labour conservatively cut welfare
Rushed welfare cuts backed up with dodgy statistics is a shoddy - and all too familiar - way to run the UK
Read the full article18 March 2025
The real crisis in young men
Influencers stroke egos, fuel dangerous fantasies and enrich themselves by telling young males they are being victimised by a woke society
Read the full article14 March 2025
The book Zuckerberg wants to kill
If you thought Facebook was meant to be all about free speech nowadays, think again
Read the full article12 March 2025
Elon Musk is in freefall
When it comes to billionaires, there’s only one reliable way to keep score – and by that measure, there’s no doubt Musk is losing badly
Read the full article12 March 2025
JD Vile. The smallness of the vice-president of America
Vance has gone from punchline to the man who punches first and asks questions later. And he’s a heartbeat from the presidency
Read the full article05 March 2025
Nigel Farage, the unpopulist
Nigel Farage has staked his political life on slavish support of Donald Trump. Now it seems to be coming back to bite him
Read the full article04 March 2025
How woke went broke
The excesses of the social justice movements will not be missed – but something even worse has come to take their place
Read the full article28 February 2025
Keir Starmer’s disastrous decision
The prime minister’s cut to the aid budget will cause horrendous suffering and weaken Britain
Read the full article25 February 2025
Trump gives Europe the finger
A vote at the United Nations made it very clear what he thinks of America’s former allies across the Atlantic
Read the full article20 February 2025
The turncoat in chief
Trump has shafted Ukraine. Now he threatens the security of the west
Read the full article19 February 2025
The war against buffer zones
JD Vance’s rant against a British law banning protests outside abortion clinics is pure hypocrisy - and nothing at all to do with free speech
Read the full article15 February 2025
JD Vance is graceless, reckless and pointless
The vice president’s arrogant and counterproductive rant in Munich was a lesson in hypocrisy
Read the full article14 February 2025
The president’s brain is missing… again
Not even his shocked closest allies know what drove Donald Trump’s Ukraine sell-out
Read the full article13 February 2025
Donald Trump has no plan
Greenland, the Panama Canal, trade wars, the Gaza riviera, surrendering to Putin – and it’s only week three. Most of it won’t happen. But some of it might. And that’s the problem
Read the full article12 February 2025
Matthew Goodwin’s book of nonsense
The populist commentator’s book on UK universities is filled with unoriginal argument, cherry-picked evidence and enormous self-regard. If he truly believes what he’s written, the only suitable response is pity
Read the full article10 February 2025
When hard hearts beat soft power
The White House’s destruction of USAID is a callous, catastrophic mistake that will damage America as well as the world
Read the full article08 February 2025
Why are Labour acting like the Tories?
By offering the same old rhetoric on benefits, migrants and spending, Keir Starmer looks like the continuity Sunak
Read the full article05 February 2025
China’s AI game changer
China has upended the artificial intelligence war, and now anyone can win – shaking the assumptions of Trump, Musk and Starmer
Read the full article04 February 2025
Reform’s poll lead changes nothing for Labour
The populist party is a growing force that cannot be ignored - but Starmer’s government must still deliver or die
Read the full article02 February 2025
Welcome to Trump’s economic world war
An entitled, deluded president risks setting off a chain reaction of global financial devastation
Read the full article30 January 2025
Brexit is the new communism
True believers deny that leaving the EU has failed; just that it's not been done properly yet. Does this delusion sound familiar?
Read the full article29 January 2025
Climate of fear
The case for green measures has never been clearer. But ideology in the US and internal battles in the UK threaten any progress
Read the full article28 January 2025
The crazy fawning over Trump’s sabotage
Government is hard - but that doesn’t justify praise by Simon Case and others just for smashing things up
Read the full article24 January 2025
Under the radar, the Lib Dems could decide the next election
Labour and the Tories are obsessed with Reform - and that gives Ed Davey space to make a different case
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