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Hugo Gurdon

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Disastrous reality

Disastrous reality

We’ve all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear...

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Hugo Gurdon

American amnesia: What we’ve forgotten in the 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks

American amnesia: What we’ve forgotten in the 25 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks

Anyone who was an adult 25 years ago can remember where they were when they heard news that Muslim terrorists had flown two passenger planes into the...

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We owe $40 trillion — $120,000 each

We owe $40 trillion — $120,000 each

News that the national debt has risen above $40 trillion resonated like a ringing bell in my mind. It registered that America is 16 times deeper in...

21.08.2026 10

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The leftist ‘omincause’ lies to us every day

Destructive wildfires in Europe and the suicide of a black professor are closely linked, even though they seem utterly unconnected. The tissue that...

18.08.2026 10

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The Democrats’ growing extremism will surely backfire

For more than a decade, Democrats have watched Donald Trump succeed with a brand of politics that is crude, often coarse, and always volatile. They...

14.08.2026 8

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Stay awake against the woke

There are two big points to make about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) suggestion that “Woke 1 was crazy.” The first is that “Woke 1”...

14.08.2026 20

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Ceuta invasion — nothingburger or outrage?

Apologists for backward peoples invading wealthy developed nations can’t get their story straight.  One lot dismisses the irruption of 50,000...

03.08.2026 10

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Iran deal walks and quacks like a debacle

19.06.2026 30

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UFC and the prostitution of the White House

15.06.2026 20

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The descent of Britain is a warning to all

12.06.2026 40

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Platner, the socialists’ latest con man

10.06.2026 10

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Henry Nowak and fatal anti-racism

05.06.2026 40

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Platner is unfit for duty: The Maine Democrat would be beyond the pale in any other era

05.06.2026 30

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Biden just won’t go away

29.05.2026 10

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Multiculturalism versus the myth of the West

27.05.2026 20

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Christendom at war with itself

20.05.2026 40

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The Left declares its contempt for wealth creators

08.05.2026 20

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Spanberger and the Democrats’ constitutional wrecking crew

05.05.2026 20

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Democrats’ court disaster

01.05.2026 40

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‘White supremacy’ was a leftist scam

24.04.2026 50

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Should Alito stay or go?

17.04.2026 30

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Trump haters clutch at their pearls

10.04.2026 30

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Artemis — huntress of new frontiers

I was one of millions of children who stayed up late on July 20, 1969, to see Neil Armstrong become the first man to walk on the moon. My family sat...

02.04.2026 30

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A bad week for the West against its green-red enemies

It’s been a bad week in the West’s existential battle against the green-red alliance of imperial Islam and the Left’s demagogic, cynical, and...

31.03.2026 20

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Ask a stupid gotcha question

Sometimes it’s hard to know if a reporter’s question comes from an antagonist lamely trying to expose supposed hypocrisy in President Donald Trump...

27.03.2026 40

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Trump’s dangerous off-ramp from Iran

President Donald Trump is saying he wants to end the Iran war within the next few weeks, according to White House insiders. This fits his frequent...

26.03.2026 30

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Iran — whose decision is it?

When is an enemy threat imminent? Once the button has been pushed and a missile is on the way? That is obviously too late. Does potentiality blossom...

20.03.2026 30

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Normalizing the grotesque

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest outrage, with his wife Rama Duwaji, was hosting terrorist sympathizer Mahmoud Khalil for dinner at Gracie...

13.03.2026 30

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Bait-and-switch Democrat: Spanberger is a leftist wolf dressed as a smart centrist sheep

It would be apt to describe the new Democratic governor of Virginia the same way Joe Biden described Barack Obama when the two men were running...

13.03.2026 60

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Trump gets the last laugh

It’s a truism that President Donald Trump loves attention. Even among politicians, a species not known for shunning limelight, he’s in a league of...

06.03.2026 30

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Trump makes patriotism a battlefield in midterm elections

President Donald Trump has chosen the battlefield on which Republicans will fight Democrats for control of Congress in November’s midterm elections....

27.02.2026 30

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A snowball’s chance of decency in New York City

The snowstorm that shut down the Northeast did not shut down the mob. In the streets of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York and in its Washington Square...

24.02.2026 60

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The Duke of hazard

“Now is the winter of our discontent made an inglorious bummer by this Duke of York.” My mangled version of the words that open Shakespeare’s...

20.02.2026 60

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The point Rep. Randy Fine made so badly

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) threw a social media hand grenade on Sunday, tweeting, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is...

18.02.2026 100

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American credibility: Why Trump must enforce his ‘red line’ in Iran

06.02.2026 30

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Mark Rutte endangers NATO’s future

06.02.2026 40

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A small win for Afghan women who helped special operations forces

06.02.2026 30

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Trump’s leadership restores US influence in Latin America

06.02.2026 50

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Trump puts seniors first by making drugs affordable again

06.02.2026 30

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American decline, or a rebound?

06.02.2026 40

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Hollywood needs more Groundhog Days

30.01.2026 50

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‘FAFO’ isn’t a good law enforcement strategy

30.01.2026 40

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Tim Walz’s disingenuous ‘sanctuary’ spin

30.01.2026 60

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Syria’s Kurds have a problem

30.01.2026 40

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Trump should stop Britain’s ‘stupidity’

30.01.2026 40

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Against the vice economy

16.01.2026 30

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Years of law enforcement hatred is taking a toll on Minneapolis police

16.01.2026 50

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Donald Trump disproves MAHA

16.01.2026 30

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Socialism’s rise is really a gift to America

16.01.2026 30

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Democrats — the party of lawbreaking

16.01.2026 50

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