Does Albo’s backflip really make you better off?
Anthony Albanese has backflipped on his promise to deliver the stage three tax cuts in full. He has proposed a…
How long will Nadezhdin dare to defy Putin?
Despite a little eleventh-hour drama, Boris Nadezhdin’s bid to become the only genuine opposition candidate in March’s Russian elections has…
Why the EU detests Hungary
To misquote von Clausewitz, the European Union sees lawfare as the continuation of politics by other means. Brussels’s latest sally against the…
Why Starmer had to ditch his £28 billion green pledge
What will Labour’s flagship promise be going into the next election? There’s a policy vacancy, now that the party plans…
Starmer should listen to Sunak on gender
The transgender row isn’t going away. Prime Minister’s Questions this week was dominated by a jibe Rishi Sunak made about…
Why are schools ‘off-rolling’ pupils?
Schools dramatically change a child’s life chances, as I’ve seen in my 24 years of teaching. How we measure their…
Javier Milei is no populist
When Javier Milei visited Israel and announced that he would be moving Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem, I suppose that was terribly ‘populist’…
Why you don’t have free will, with Brian Klaas
We all comfort ourselves by believing in cause and effect. According to Dr Brian Klaas, we wilfully ignore a bewildering…
Misunderstanding ‘excellence’
The Sydney (Patronising) Film Festival has introduced ‘the world’s largest cash prize for Indigenous filmmaking’ at $35,000. My heart sank at…
Fact check: Tim Spector’s frightening climate claims
The BBC just can’t seem to stop itself trying to frighten people over climate change. On Tuesday morning it was…
Plucking the income goose
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s celebrated Finance Minister, is reported to have said, ‘The act of taxation consists in so plucking…
In praise of carbon dioxide
‘The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide abundance in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so…
Israel cannot accept Hamas’s hostage deal
Following weeks of stagnation in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas over a deal for the release of Israeli hostages,…
Starmer’s green spending problem is getting bigger
Once again Labour’s internal debate over its £28 billion green spending pledge is playing out publicly. On Friday there was…
Will anything reconcile William and Harry?
In this most eventful of weeks for the Royal Family, the unanticipated return of Prince Harry to Britain has created new drama.…
Germany’s anti-AfD marches are backfiring
The rise of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has set off one of the largest waves of protest in modern German…
Will Holly Valance be Liz Truss’s secret weapon?
They say politics is show business for ugly people. But at yesterday’s right-wing rally, one celebrity singer managed to disprove…
Who cancelled Miss Japan?
Karolina Shiino, a 26-year-old naturalised Japanese woman originally from Ukraine, has been obliged to give up her Miss Japan title…
It’s time to give Poland nuclear weapons
As Donald Trump marches towards the Republican nomination, a spectre is haunting Europe: how should they prepare for a world…
Pakistani politics is like a Monopoly game
The levels of cynicism and disillusionment surrounding the upcoming parliamentary elections in Pakistan – due to take place tomorrow –…
Inside the Biden administration’s indifference towards rescuing Americans from Afghanistan
At the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden administration officials said behind closed doors that secretary of state Antony Blinken…
Power to the people: the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables
One Nation Leader, Pauline Hanson, spoke at the National Rally Against Reckless Renewables on the lawn in front of Parliament House in…
Does the EU’s tech ‘enforcer’ know what he’s talking about?
Thierry Breton is, on the face of it, well qualified to regulate Europe’s tech industry. After a brief spell as…
Spotlight on the International Criminal Court
As both parties claim vindication following the ICJ ruling – less known are the important efforts of French human rights…
The war against merit strikes its lowest chord yet, thanks to the London Philharmonic Orchestra
By now, my readers should know that the one thing I like to do more than write words is write…
