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…
Sunday shows round-up: Sinn Fein First Minister vows to be a ‘unifier’
Sinn Fein leader Michelle O’Neill made history this week as she became Northern Ireland’s first nationalist first minister. Speaking to…
Why Kate Forbes is right about high tax
I was on BBC1’s Question Time with Kate Forbes in Glasgow last week in which she was oddly loyal to…
Why Britain’s farmers aren’t revolting
Europe’s ablaze, but not on this side of the English Channel. Paris has been besieged. Dutch politics turned upside down.…
Will Londoners fall for Sadiq Khan’s election bribes?
Taxpayers are being treated to a clutch of pre-election bribes from a politician who only a few months ago was…
The trouble with Marcus Rashford
What a week it’s been for Marcus Rashford, who divides opinion like almost no one else in football. The Manchester…
The world would be a better place without Facebook
It’s sometimes difficult to remember a time before Facebook, isn’t it? It’s like trying to remember a time before the…
What will US air strikes actually achieve?
The 28 January drone strike in Jordan that killed three American soldiers and wounded 40 more necessitated a US military…
Brace yourself
RBA meeting intervals have been extended to take place every 6 weeks, with 8, as opposed to 12, now occurring…
Hamas’ horrifying summer camp musical
Lights, music, guns! Dozens of school children run out, armed with prop assault weapons enact a choreographed assault against imaginary…
Calvin Robinson won’t be cancelled from Australian Christian conference
Dr Gavin Ashendon was the Queen of England’s personal chaplain from 2008 until he resigned from the progressively wokeifying Church…
America is being sucked back into the Middle East
It didn’t take long for the US military to retaliate to the drone strike in Jordan that killed three American…
America is getting closer to open conflict with Iran
‘Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy,’ said Sun Tzu. The Biden administration takes the opposite approach. America’s Commander-in-Chief spent much of…
The housing crash that never was
So is that the end of the property ‘crash’? Nationwide reported this week that its house price index was up…
