More early releases won’t solve the prison crisis
September’s tranche of early releases did not go as smoothly as the government might have hoped. Footage of delighted prisoners…
Starmer’s top five charmers released from prison
The second round of prison inmate releases is taking place today, with over one thousand people walking free from their…
Paddington shouldn’t have been given a passport
Paddington has an official passport. The makers of the new Paddington film Paddington in Peru revealed this in passing to the Radio Times today.…
The five worst takes on the Chris Kaba case
Yesterday brought the news that the police officer accused of murdering Chris Kaba in 2022 had been acquitted. Racial justice…
Opening a bottle with… Soho House’s Kate Bryan
Asked how best to get to know new cultures, travel luminary Anthony Bourdain once said: “Drink heavily with locals whenever…
Kemi is right about absent fathers
Kemi Badenoch MP keeps being compared to Margaret Thatcher. But the truth is she has taken on the persona of…
India will never join China’s anti-western alliance
On the 15 November Xi Jinping will mark the 12th anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party…
Keir Starmer’s prisons dilemma
Another month, another batch of prisoners released early. Today marks the release of the second tranch of offenders as part…
Britain cannot leave the South Pacific to Xi Jinping
Samoa is a land of sunburnt shorelines and majestic waterfalls. It is a Pacific paradise that, in a perfect world,…
Has Rachel Reeves lost control of spending?
Some thought Rachel Reeves’s experience at the Bank of England meant she ‘knew how to run the economy’. She would…
Nearly everything you assume about colonialism and slavery is wrong
Nigel Biggar’s, Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The UK’s debts are horrifyingly large
There is a big danger in today’s government borrowing figures for September being a little less bad than was expected…
The cowardice of the Chris Kaba case
Since 2010, British police have shot dead 30 people. This works out at an average of around 2.1 people per…
Can subsidies help Australians make more babies?
Previous fears of overpopulation in nations with high population densities have been replaced by concerns about a declining and ageing…
The TV industry should be worried about AI
ITV are searching for an ‘AI expert’ to ‘create TV shows, films and digital content’, and to use this possibly…
That poor possum
I’m not a vegan. You won’t find me stripping naked, drenching myself in red paint, and gluing myself to the…
Labour should be wary of scrapping short prison sentences
What is the point of a short prison sentence? David Gauke will no doubt think carefully about that question now…
Badenoch beats Jenrick in Mumsnet ratings
The Tory leadership contest will wrap up in less than two weeks and members have been busy casting their votes…
Mass prisoner releases aren’t working
Today, over a thousand offenders will walk out of jail early as part of the government’s ongoing emergency scheme to…
The neo-liberal consensus is coming apart
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and…
Newcastle, Saudi Arabia and desperate decline of English football
Is a major scandal over the sale of Newcastle United to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund…
Crisafulli: me-tooing into office?
With polling day nigh in the Queensland election campaign, Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has appeared incredibly weak, vacillating, and indecisive…
Misinformation bill resurrects Mussolini’s attack on economic freedom
On September 12, 2024, Communications Minister for the incumbent Albanese government Michelle Rowland introduced the Communications Legislation Amendment Bill 2024…
Albo the Houso strikes again
With his exquisite political judgement, and with an election looming in the next six months or so, Albo intends to…
Khan takes a pop at Kuenssberg over election tweet
To City Hall, where tonight Sadiq Khan welcomed journalists from across the city to a Diageo-sponsored drinks reception. The London…
