Please note that the opinions and positions expressed in guest essays are those of the writer alone and not those of Hot Air, Townhall Media, or Salem Media. By Hollie McKay PARIS, France – Fifty years later, anti-Iranian regime activist Aziz Rezaee still bears the scars of torture on […]

Everybody’s closing tabbies for the weekend, except in Playa Del Carmen … After the European Union offered to slash tariffs to zero for industrial goods with the U.S., Trump said that wasn’t enough. The bloc, he said, should close its trade surplus with the U.S. by buying $350 billion of U.S. energy products. That […]

China announced today that it was raising its tariffs on US goods to 125%, just below where Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods earlier in the week. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has said his nation is “not afraid,” in his first public comments on the escalating trade war with the United States, as Beijing […]

ONE of the most audacious achievements of the pseudo-pandemic regime was when the government succeeded in getting the public to call for the closure of pubs. Schools had already shut, and mainstream media were used to cast blokes still going out for a pint as selfish and stupid. Tim Martin, head of the vast Wetherspoons […]

Getting a grip on gold THE RUSH to invest in gold that sent the gold price soaring during 2024 has continued in the opening months of 2025. Plenty of new milestones have been marked: the $2,900 per troy ounce barrier for the first time in February, and the $3,000 threshold in March and hitting $3,173 at the time of writing. Geopolitical turbulence and international trade uncertainty, provoked further […]