The war on children
On February 18, Elon Musk shared the documentary directed by Robby Starbuck titled The War on Children. The film is a…
Lee Anderson doubles down in Islamist row
Rishi Sunak withdrew the whip from Lee Anderson on Saturday over his claim that Sadiq Khan had ‘given our capital…
Yes, minister… The Lowy Institute edition
What do you mean, ‘deliberative democracy’? Sounds like BS to me
Angela Rayner facing questions over council house sale
A difficult Monday morning for Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner. The right-on left-winger is facing some tricky questions today after…
Liverpool fans should stop booing the national anthem
Liverpool fans, a significant number at least, booed the national anthem at the Carabao Cup final at Wembley yesterday. It wasn’t the…
Javier Milei’s Argentine revolution seems to be working
The currency would collapse. Output would go into freefall. Unemployment would soar, and the IMF would be back in charge…
Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza plan looks dead on arrival
Israel’s government has finally begun to turn its attention to what happens once the war in Gaza is over. The…
France expels Islamists while Britain appeases them
France last week deported an imam after footage emerged of him appearing to preach hate. Mahjoub Mahjoubi, who has lived in France since…
Can the EU survive another five years of Ursula von der Leyen?
Ursula von der Leyen came to the post of President of the European Commission five years ago with a less…
Will Navalny be given a public funeral?
Nine days after Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony, his body was finally handed over to his mother…
What if digital learning is a catastrophe?
There’s a lot of talk in the papers about the importance of banning smartphones from schools. Quite right too. The…
Inside Bannon and Burra’s post-CPAC blowout
National Harbor, Maryland “CPAC 2024 was a HUGE success!,” the conference’s account tweeted this morning. Cockburn isn’t sure how they’re…
Zelensky: ‘31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far’
After two years of secrecy, Volodymyr Zelensky has finally revealed the number of fallen Ukrainian soldiers. ‘31,000 Ukrainian military personnel…
Fighting academia’s feminist tentacles
As the toxic sludge of feminist claptrap seeps through the academic world, there are many principled researchers grinding their teeth…
Defence is the topic of the day
The Albanese government has acted true to form with a big announcement that sounds like a lot is going to…
The fantastical myths that swirl around Vladimir Putin
If there is one man who is probably happiest that Vladimir Putin’s travel schedule has been so heavily curtailed of…
Decolonising (or radicalising) the curriculum
It appears our educational elites have learned nothing from 2023’s referendum on the Voice to Parliament. Despite promises of a…
Alexandra Marshall Live S2E4: Campbell Newman and the Queensland crime wave
No, you’re not imagining it. Queensland is living in the grip of a crime wave that has left residents terrified…
The Lee Anderson row shows the Tory party has broken down
What are we to make of the Lee Anderson saga? The very fact that this low-rent furore is dominating our Sunday…
Oliver Dowden: ‘Words matter’ in Lee Anderson Islamophobia row
Lee Anderson was stripped of the Tory whip yestereday after refusing to apologise for remarks in which he claimed ‘Islamists’…
Nikki Haley’s candidacy is Never Trumpism’s last stand
‘I’m a woman of my word,’ said Nikki Haley after another humiliating defeat last night. ‘I’m not giving up this…
Low birth rates are a threat to humanity
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely – old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside – but…
Viktor Orban is not abandoning Europe
The news that Hungary and China have signed a security pact, following a visit by to Budapest by Wang Xiaohong,…
Why are Japan’s trains so much better than ours?
With six more months of train strikes recently announced it is getting hard to imagine a punctual, anxiety-free railway journey…
The sinister reality of trail hunting
Will Sir Keir Starmer go further on the Hunting Act than Tony Blair did? While the passing of the legislation…
