Sunak: let’s bring back national service
The first big new policy announcement of the election campaign is in from the Tories, and it’s likely to be…
Is Michael Gove set to become the next Strictly star?
As the exodus of Conservative MPs continues, Mr S is rather curious about what alternative careers retiring Tories have in…
How many Tory big beasts will the Lib Dems oust?
It’s four days since Rishi Sunak surprised his colleagues and announced a summer election. So far a lot of the…
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan remains unlikely
For a second day, yesterday, Chinese fighter jets and warships surrounded Taiwan for drills which the People’s Liberation Army said…
The ICJ’s Rafah ruling is unwelcome and unwise
Yesterday afternoon, in a striking move, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s top court, ordered Israel to stop military operations in Rafah…
Campus protests are a free speech test for universities
‘This is a major win.’ These were the words of a spokesperson after the University of Melbourne caved in to…
Let’s not forget why we’re here
On multiple occasions this week, I’ve found myself wondering if I was living in some dystopian alternate reality. I watched…
The smoking ban will be back
Has Rishi Sunak’s surprise summer election spared Britain some nanny state interventions? At first glance it seemed so, as it…
Germany was right to take the Reichsbürger threat seriously
Germany is in the grip of one of the most extensively covered courtroom dramas in recent memory. On trial is…
How Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden fell out
After the atrocities committed by Hamas in southern Israel on 7 October, President Biden offered his total and unflinching support…
The sad decline of Oxford
The cliché about Oxford – and as a resident of the city, I have skin in the game here –…
Acronym organisations
The so-called rules-based order that the West has prided itself on developing and operating under since the end of the…
Modern slavery
China shows the way
Camelot was Israel’s biggest fan
How the left have abandoned their heroes of the past
Cancel culture is now Labor policy
The real agenda behind the eSafety Commissioner’s litigation against Musk
Abracadabra!
Dr Jim 2.0’s magic lamp
Trump’s travails
Can New York deliver even one or two unbiased jurors?
Sergeant Albo Schultz
He sees nothing, knows nothing, so there's nothing to worry about, right?
India’s economic promise
Look out, China
What future for Australian multiculturalism?
Debate is fine, death threats are not
Welcome to Knifesbridge
London’s stabbing frenzy
This distorting mirror of cruelty
Every so often a bit of streamer television comes along and makes you grateful for what the form can achieve…
Aussie life
It is a point of principle for the residents of the smarter parts of Manhattan not to notice – and…
Language
The word ‘colonialism’ has become (at least for some people) a ‘snarl word’ – something that is always bad, and…
Dutton now prime ministerial
An early election?
