Humza Yousaf and his ridiculous, feigned outrage
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf is a politician with two settings. If he’s being asked about a difficult issue –…
Frank Field: 1942-2024
Frank Field, the former Labour minister and crossbench peer, died today aged 81. Below is an interview he did with…
Narendra Modi is unbeatable
Voting in India’s national elections started last Friday. It will take six weeks to complete, which is less of a…
Have Londoners forgotten how to stand up to anti-Semites?
There are some among the tens of thousands who march through London each week who genuinely seek peace in Gaza.…
A National Conservative critique of the recent ‘The Road Ahead’ conference in Fremantle
Perhaps no other city makes one recall as fondly the spirit of the 1980s in Australia as Fremantle. It was…
Australia does not need a policeman for a police state
When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew…
Does Labour really love the St George’s Cross?
Following last night’s mammoth parliamentary ping pong session, a funny thing happened early this morning. As various members of HM…
Sunak and Scholz gear up for an awkward meeting in Berlin
Rishi Sunak arrived in Poland today to announce a £500 million boost in aid to Ukraine, using the trip to…
Climate psychology
Climate change is the gift that keeps on giving. We are familiar with the havoc it is supposedly wreaking on…
A diesel in the shed
You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to…
Campus Gaza protests are crippling US universities
University campuses across the United States are facing a growing wave of student-led protests over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.…
Australia’s e-Safety Karen
Only slaves are denied free speech. Are we slaves?
Why did it take Rishi Sunak so long to up defence spending?
Britain is putting its defence industry on a ‘war-footing’, the Prime Minister has said, as he vowed to boost spending…
Why is Labour so ‘angry’ about our next man in Washington?
Civil service appointments rarely generate much excitement in Westminster. But it’s not every day that Britain’s most senior diplomatic posting…
Rishi Sunak vows to boost defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP
After finally getting his Rwanda legislation through the Lords, Rishi Sunak is in Warsaw today to meet with Nato Secretary-General…
Prisons have lost the war on drugs
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian best seller Brave New World, published back in 1934, envisaged a society where stability was enforced by…
What happened to the Tory promise to balance the budget?
There is one big reason why a summer general election is unlikely, however tempted the Prime Minister might be to…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E11: The Anzac Legacy – Prof. James Allan, Edie Wyatt & Michael de Percy
It has been a quiet Anzac Day, with the normally argumentative Left taking a break. Anthony Albanese is in PNG,…
Australia doesn’t need a Ministry of Truth
Two unrelated acts of stabbing violence, first the random murderous rampage of a knife-wielding man in Sydney’s Bondi Junction, followed…
Elon Musk doesn’t know how to turn Tesla around
The share price is in freefall. Sales are sliding at an accelerating rate as customers lose interest. The Chinese are…
Does Channel 4 think this counts as balanced?
We are now just nine months out from the latest possible general election, which means that in a year’s time…
UNRWA hasn’t earned our trust in Gaza
Before 7 October last year, observers had long suspected an uncomfortable symbiosis between UNRWA, the UN organisation tasked with organising…
Tony Blair is a post-democratic product
Why was it that when I read a big interview with Tony Blair over the weekend – the ostensible premise…
Sunak’s Rwanda Bill finally passes parliament
After eight hours of debate on the Rwanda Bill, peers finally threw in the towel shortly after midnight. The two…
Could Europe send troops to Ukraine?
It is 2026, and in a downbeat speech at the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin finally announces a withdrawal from Ukraine. Russian…
