What’s wrong with Tory MPs supporting Trump?
Asking Liz Truss for advice on how to make conservatism popular seems as wise as consulting Paula Vennells on how…
The cynicism behind Labour’s Race Equality Act
Labour is desperate to come across as business-friendly. Last week, the party said it will no longer reinstate a cap…
Designer sickies and other madness
The new Enterprise Agreement at the University of Queensland is special but a typical example of the genre: designer sickies.…
Watch: Rishi bets Piers £1,000 on Rwanda
Proper prime time viewing this afternoon with a PM on the ropes. TalkTV today broadcast Piers Morgan’s interview with Rishi…
OpenDAEN: making sense of the TGA’s Covid adverse event reports
It was a dinner table conversation imprinted in my memory. The date: September 2021. Topic: Covid injections. Discussion: robust. With…
Spy pigeon
China’s super-secret ‘spy pigeon’ has been unmasked as a humble Taiwanese racing pigeon. So, a little less ‘Bond’ and a…
Why don’t Tories like Gillian Keegan want to talk about asylum?
Does the Tory party have a death wish? It’s a question we have been prompted to ask again and again…
Christians are being played for fools in asylum claims
It came as quite a shock when we learned that many of our universities had moved into the lucrative trade…
Of course the Clapham chemical attack is about asylum
The Clapham chemical attack is ‘not really about asylum’. An actual government minister said this. Not some junior scribe for…
Full extent of sick-note Britain revealed
We already know that Britain has a massive sick-note problem but we did not, until today, know just how large.…
Why shouldn’t Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin?
In September, 1934, William Randolph Hearst, the most famous journalist and publisher in the world, visited Berlin and interviewed Adolf…
Russia isn’t the biggest worry in Macron’s crime-ridden France
February has not started well for the European Union. On the first day of the month, furious farmers surrounded the…
How do we draw the line between gambling and gaming?
‘Skins gambling,’ anyone? No, until yesterday, me neither. It’s nothing to do with strip poker or 70s bovver boys. It’s…
Casting an able-bodied actor as Richard III isn’t ‘offensive’
The row over Richard III rumbles on. Disability groups have objected to the Globe’s forthcoming production in which Michelle Terry…
Can Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill save Northern Ireland?
The appointment of a new executive by the Northern Ireland Assembly on Saturday was a hugely significant moment. There was…
Performative airstrikes against the Houthis will achieve nothing
Performative sanctions have long been the last refuge of the lazy policymaker looking to ‘do something’. Take, for instance, the…
Ethnicity and crime
The internet is currently awash with the video of four youths of Somali/Sudanese appearance leaving a car. Police want to…
In praise of Kemi Badenoch
Whenever international affairs are proving particularly ‘interesting’ there’s always some clown who pipes up with ‘Oh, if only women ruled…
About Western whataboutery
I recently saw an ad for an anti-Israel protest in Christchurch, New Zealand. Alongside a picture of the Palestinian flag,…
Are Scots tiring of devolution?
As Scottish devolution celebrates its 25th anniversary, are voters losing faith in Holyrood? A quarter of the country believes devolution…
Conservative polemics – a new dawn?
A superior weapon is of no use if you do not know how to wield it. In a debate, the…
Was cost a factor in the senseless deaths of three US soldiers?
Recall Gen George Patton’s reported exhortation to his troops in Africa in 1943, about winning a war ‘by making some…
The writer with an incurable wound
‘They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the…
Labor cannot define ‘women’, but it’s offering them tax cuts
When Labor’s Minister for Finance and Women, Katy Gallagher, alerted us to her intention to give women tax cuts, my…
Alexandra Marshall LIVE S2E1: Norman Fenton & Rachael Wong
Mathematician and UK political commentator Professor Norman Fenton became a freedom celebrity during the Covid saga. He sits down for…
