A crackdown on bad cyclists can’t come soon enough
Doesn’t it sound wonderful? The police are eyeing a device that could immobilise electric bikes and electric scooters in a split second…
How the SNP broke Holyrood
Twenty-five years have passed since the opening of the Scottish parliament and the issue of just how well devolution is…
Are we heading for a new Cold War in Antarctica?
Russia’s reported discovery of 510 billion barrels of oil in Antarctica has led to warnings of a new ‘Cold War’…
Could the Koreans save Anglesey’s nuclear power project?
The funny thing about nuclear power stations is that few places actively want one, but almost anywhere that’s lost one…
A budget about (nearly) nothing
The Australian Federal Budget gave us a couple of big headlines, but most of them were fake news. The Treasurer…
Jimflation
Back in 2022 when Labor won the federal election with a paltry 32 per cent of the primary vote, our…
Brown study
One aspect of life that keeps me awake at night is my concern that our readers who do not live…
Time to call out the Panda-huggers
Albanese relies on appeasement
Explaining vaccine hesitancy
The mandates were deeply unethical
The miserable death of multiculturalism
Social cohesion frays
Terrible ideas that just won’t die
We do not need a bill of rights
Israel at Eurovision
Triumph and tears
How the West lost the global war on terror
The plan for a worldwide caliphate
Wong & Albo are a disgrace
Australia has betrayed Israel
‘Progressivism’ – what would Aristotle say?
The elites are taking us towards totalitarian control
Obscured by tattiness
A friend, with a lot more culture than your columnist, used to carry audio recordings of two works on her…
Kiwi life
Is it possible to be simultaneously entertained and depressed? Well, yes. Just try living in New Zealand in 2024. The…
Language
If your younger acquaintances start referring to you (or anything you do) as ‘mid’ they are not being polite. For…
A wet lettuce versus a real prime minister
Tony Abbott - not a bad bloke!
Aristotle’s advice for young protestors
In his Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle (384-322 bc) sets about identifying the various headings under which you can be persuasive…
Lovely slice of Cosmic Scouse: Michael Head & the Red Elastic, at EartH, reviewed
One of the more bizarre but recurring tales about how the music of Liverpool has been shaped over these past…
The Church of England’s volunteering crisis
John Betjeman knew that a church cannot run on prayers alone. ‘Let’s praise the man who goes to light the…
‘Great restaurants can’t thrive in Hampstead’: Ottolenghi reviewed
Ottolenghi is an Israeli deli co-owned by Yotam Ottolenghi, an Israeli Jew, and Sami Tamimi, a Palestinian Muslim. They met…
Gorgeous and deeply absorbing: Manor Lords reviewed
Grade: A ‘God games’, as they used to be called, have a storied history. SimCity, Civilisation and the excellently sadistic…
Letters: how to get the uni protestors out
Soft left Sir: I read with a certain wry amusement in Yascha Mounk’s piece that ‘activists’ occupying Columbia were demanding…
