Why everyone is worried about Hezbollah
Hezbollah has escalated attacks against Israel in the last few days. The Iran-backed Lebanese militant organisation started firing missiles into…
Defence disaster
The Australian Defence Force is a disaster at present… It is somewhat of a paper tiger with a proud and…
In pursuit of health…?
Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all people some of the time and some people all the time, but…
Why has Xi Jinping purged his senior commanders?
The Chinese Communist party will no doubt throw a militarised tantrum should Saturday’s election in Taiwan be won by Lai…
Can Macron’s ‘Brutus’ PM stop Le Pen?
Emmanuel Macron has begun the new year by replacing one Socialist prime minister with another. Out goes Elisabeth Borne and…
Joey Barton doesn’t know anything about women in sport
Joey Barton – the Pied Piper of disaffected football fans – has had a busy week. He began by comparing…
Why no one in Japan is talking about the Fujitsu Post Office scandal
‘They are a national disgrace.’ That was the response of a Japanese friend when I asked for her opinion on…
Police are in a muddle over transgender strip searches
Have you ever been strip searched? I have. The date it happened – 7 September 2020 – is etched on…
Australia sees sense on its plan to ditch the monarchy
Australia’s government has been determined to ‘do a Barbados’ and ditch the British monarchy for an Australian republic with an…
Watch: Trump mocks Macron’s accent
Emmanuel Macron is facing something of a crisis at home: his prime minister has resigned and his party is trailing…
TV trigger warnings are out of control
The warnings on what we now call ‘content’ (i.e. what we used to know as films and TV shows) are…
No one is indigenous to the Moon
The American-based Navajo Nation has raised an objection to the latest ‘space funeral’, calling for the mission to be delayed…
Could Idris Elba’s solution help tackle knife crime?
Actor Idris Elba took to the airwaves on the Today programme this morning to call for more to be done…
A splinter in life
My feet had become so white and feminine that I committed myself to walk around barefoot as much as I…
How Sheikh Hasina is turning Bangladesh autocratic
Politics in Bangladesh is very much a one-woman show, starring prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country for…
Why Anas Sarwar is succeeding
Few politicians had a better 2023 than Anas Sarwar. The Scottish Labour leader began last year with his party still…
Did the fight over slavery cause the Civil War?
Nikki Haley reignited the battle over the cause of the Civil War. Today’s racial protocol requires a reflexive one-word answer:…
A festival of exclusivity
For many, it was to be a respite. An escape. A place to unwind and be among nature, music, dance,…
Is a new front about to open up in Israel’s war?
Two days after the Israel Defence Forces announced that it had dismantled Hamas’s ‘military framework’ in the northern Gaza Strip,…
Parents should share blame for plummeting school attendance
Is school optional nowadays? Last year, 140,000 children were classed as ‘severely absent’ from the classroom, a rise of 134…
CSIRO: tipping the scales on cost?
To better understand how the internet came into our lives, I recommend reading Michael Hiltzik’s Dealers of Lightning and Weaving the Web by…
Lloyd Austin’s medical mystery scandal
Questions are growing over who knew what, and when, about the hospitalization of the defense secretary Lloyd Austin, the most senior…
The unbearably smug spectacle of the Golden Globes
Does anybody actually watch televised Hollywood award shows anymore unless, like me, they’re being paid to? Until ‘The Incident’ at…
What’s the truth about the US defence secretary’s mystery illness?
Questions are growing over who knew what, and when, about the hospitalisation of the American Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, the most…
The depressing world of influencers
Walid Sharks is taking a nasty beating at the AO Arena in Manchester. It’s the second round of his fight…
