Why the Tories should think twice about pre-election tax cuts
Are Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak asking the right question as they approach the spring Budget? For the Chancellor and…
Why is Zelensky echoing Putin’s rhetoric?
Today is Ukraine’s Day of Unity which necessarily had to be marked with an expression of national pride. However, president…
Will the real Australia Day please stand up?
Australia Day is celebrated as the official national day and is marked by national celebrations, community and family events, and…
Cost of living crisis? You get what you vote for
If the value of something is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it, who is left in…
A choice between two Aboriginal schools or Victorian treaty: it’s a no-brainer
The recent failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum has given conservative voters in Victoria some glimmer of hope that…
Why is measles on the rise?
Having endured months of restrictions on our freedoms to deal with Covid-19, we now face a major health threat entirely…
Will Nikki Haley pull out on Wednesday?
New Hampshire votes tomorrow and today Nikki Haley has just two planned events. She has a morning meet-and-greet in the…
Starmer is wrong to defend the National Trust
Keir Starmer is drawing up his battle-lines for the next election. First, he came for the public schools, pledging to…
France’s protesting farmers have spooked Emmanuel Macron
The farmers of France are mobilising. Their anger will be an early test for Gabriel Attal; the countryside is unknown…
What Katharine Birbalsingh gets wrong about secularism
Katharine Birbalsingh is back in the papers again. The head teacher at Michaela, a free school whose outstanding academic record and…
How will ‘ceasefire’ calls affect the Democratic primary in New Hampshire?
Manchester, New Hampshire The Republican and Democratic primaries in New Hampshire are two sides of the same coin. New polls…
When gold’s real price breaks out
As the Austrian School economists know, inflation distorts price signals unevenly. It may be tempting to try to filter out…
Feeding the fetish: an unintentional exposé
Since entering into the world of feminist politics, I have tried to avoid, as much as possible, taking a deep…
The painful legacy of anti-nuclear campaigns on clean energy progress
On May 7, 1966, Martin Litton, a member of the Sierra Club’s board of directors, cast a fateful vote against…
Ron DeSantis’s cursed campaign
Ron DeSantis’ political action committee is called ‘Never Back Down.’ Well, he just did. A week ago, he said of…
Shapps: Netanyahu’s rejection of a two-state solution is ‘very disappointing’
On a call with Joe Biden this weekend, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s demand for security control…
Can we trust Hunt’s tax cut promise?
More tax cuts are on their way, according to the both the Prime Minister and Chancellor who have written comment…
Israel can’t win in Gaza anymore
The first and most important principle of war for any military campaign is the selection and maintenance of ‘the aim’.…
Katharine Birbalsingh and France’s own secularism battle
The row that has erupted at Katharine Birbalsingh’s Michaela school in north London highlights the difference in how Britain and…
We still live in Lenin’s world
Today is the centenary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. His Moscow funeral was marked by official communist solemnity, as if a…
Did ‘shallow Christianity’ help the Nazis rise to power?
‘Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison,’ C.S. Lewis famously said.…
AI just changed the world. Again
Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent speech, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, has caused a stir for several reasons.…
The fall of Nikki Haley’s comet
In the waning days of 2023, the last weeks of the before-time — the moments before the Republican Party would…
What happened to Labor’s two big election promises?
The two most notable Labor promises before the May 2022 election involved ‘getting wages moving again’ and the promise to…
Javier Milei: The Western world is in danger!
Argentina’s President Javier Milei’s speech to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Meeting 2024. Today I am here to tell you…
