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<title><![CDATA[Tim Black - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/42319.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Black]]></description><category domain="42319">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Andy Burnham Is Just Keir Starmer In Jeans]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/9IOkn</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone expecting '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'hope'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' and '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' is deluding themselves.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[London 7/7: The Atrocity We Don't Talk About]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/06/london-7-7-the-atrocity-we-dont-talk-about/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Twenty years on, we have still failed to reckon with the threat posed by homegrown Islamist extremism.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Pre-Trump World Was No Haven of Peace and Stability]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/25/the-pre-trump-world-was-no-haven-of-peace-and-stability/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The era of 'humanitarian' interventionism wrought chaos and misery. Good riddance.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Grooming Gangs: The Making of a Scandal]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/19/grooming-gangs-the-making-of-a-scandal/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How elite fears of social unrest and accusations of racism led the state to look away from industrial-scale abuse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Europe's Farmers Dealt a Righteous Blow to Green Elites in 2024]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/12/29/the-revenge-of-the-real-economy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2024, Europe's farmers dealt a righteous blow to the green elites.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The French Left's Pyrrhic Victory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/08/the-french-lefts-pyrrhic-victory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Its triumph over the National Rally pits bourgeois radicals against struggling workers.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Delusions of 'Liberal Interventionism']]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/15/the-brutal-folly-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years ago today, the fall of Kabul exposed the delusions of 'liberal interventionism'.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smearing GOP as Fascists Is a Cynical &amp; Dangerous Game]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/08/30/joe-bidens-semi-fascism-comments-are-shameful/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So, President Biden has finally dropped the f-bomb. In many ways, it is surprising it has taken him so long. After all, assorted'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Democrats, countless'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' commentators'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and an army of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hackademics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have been shrilly denouncing Donald Trump and his supporters as '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'fascist'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' for...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate of Fear Turns a Heatwave Into a Catastrophe]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/07/24/apocalypse-from-now-on-2/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Hellfire'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';', said the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Sun'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' on its Wednesday morning frontpage, alongside a close-up image of burning houses. The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Daily Mirror'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' was no less dramatic. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Britain'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s burning'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';', it announced, again showing that same blaze destroying people'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s homes. Likewise,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Shameful Silencing of Sportswomen]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/05/10/the-shameful-silencing-of-sportswomen/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Speaking out against trans ideology has become a risky business for female athletes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NATO's Weakness and Incoherence Has Been Exposed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/03/29/the-incoherence-at-the-heart-of-nato/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It spent years stoking a conflict with Russia it had no intention of fighting.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Search for the Origin of Covid-19]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/02/14/the-search-for-the-origin-of-covid-19/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Viral makes a compelling case for the Covid lab-leak theory.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Climate Lobby Crushed Debate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/04/how-the-climate-lobby-crushed-debate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who dissents from stringent climate policies will be branded an enemy of The Science.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Let's Go, Brandon' and the Hysteria of the Elites]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/11/03/lets-go-brandon-and-the-hysteria-of-the-elites/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A viral joke at Joe Biden's expense is being treated as a threat to American democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Powell: the Acceptable Face of Western Interventionism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/19/colin-powell-the-acceptable-face-of-western-interventionism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The public life of Colin Powell, who died this week aged 84, will be defined by two US-led wars against'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Iraq. The first, the 1991 Gulf War, made his reputation. And the second, the Iraq War, arguably destroyed it.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Alarmism Is a Threat to Public Health]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/climate-alarmism-is-the-real-threat-to-public-health/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[So'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' climate change'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is now a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'health emergency'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' is it? That was certainly the message from US president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' last week, after he launched the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. It will reportedly explore how a warming, changing climate poses an immediate,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: the Graveyard of Experts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/25/afghanistan-the-graveyard-of-experts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of July, US president Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' told'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' the press it was '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'highly unlikely'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' the Taliban would retake the whole of Afghanistan.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The IPCC's History of Errors and Recycling Unfounded Claims]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/08/11/the-ipcc-is-not-infallible/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Its history of errors and recycling unfounded claims reminds us to treat its climate reports with scepticism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Do We Now Need Permission To Be Free?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/03/26/do-we-now-need-permission-to-be-free/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The government's lockdown regime has transformed the very idea of civil liberties.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Biden Embraces the Forever War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/23/afghanistan-biden-embraces-the-forever-war/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reversing Trump's peace agreement will mean the Afghan War entering its third decade.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Headed Back to Dark Days of Liberal Interventionism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/the-wrong-america-is-back/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For the political restorationists, determined to push through a return to the pre-Trump, pre-Brexit status quo,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s fledgling US administration is being steadfastly presented as a force for global good.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Challenging Green Tyranny in 2021]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/12/31/in-2021-lets-challenge-green-tyranny/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Environmentalism has become a key weapon in the fight to restore technocratic rule.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats Still Haven't Given Up the Russia-Collusion Fantasy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/11/30/trump-was-right-to-pardon-mike-flynn/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Flynn was not a criminal. He was the victim of the Russia-collusion fantasy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making an Apocalypse Out of a Pandemic]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/18/making-an-apocalypse-out-of-a-pandemic/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When, in July 1957, British prime minister Harold Macmillan told a Tory Party rally that the British people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'had never had it so good'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';', supplying the postwar period with its famously optimistic gloss, one'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' historical'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' fact tends to be overlooked: the world was in the grip of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism: America's Radical Tradition]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/09/04/populism-americas-radical-tradition/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Populism has been dismissed as inherently right-wing and racist. Thomas Frank's The People, No explains why that's rubbish.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Flynn and the FBI's Assault on American Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/05/07/mike-flynn-and-the-fbis-assault-on-american-democracy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Black</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anti-Trumpers cheered on the bureau as it fitted up one of the first casualties of Russiagate.]]></description>
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