China calls the shots in its alliance with Russia
There has been a strange atmosphere at recent top level meetings between ‘best friends’ China and Russia. It is not…
Civil servants urged to ‘suppress’ Douglas Murray in counterterrorist lecture
For all the talk of a Tory ‘war on woke Whitehall’, more examples just keep cropping up. In an article…
Crocodile rock map of Australia speaks volumes
There’s an image that appears in my mind’s eye whenever people start talking about Australia Day. It’s a big sandstone…
How to protect yourself against risk
A formative incident for me happened when I was 25 while travelling through Turkey with a backpack. The British owner…
Your future home has been sacrificed in a political sweetheart deal
The infrastructure and construction sector has been one of the worst affected by persistent worker shortages, with a December report…
Cameron says ‘military action was only option’ in Yemen
David Cameron: western strikes on Houthi rebels are ‘a very clear message’ This week the US and UK launched military…
Existential
Several chapters into a new science fiction novel, it became apparent I’d picked up another communist allegory disguised as entertainment.…
Keir Starmer’s morning of U-turns
Another day, another U-turn from Keir Starmer. Or to be precise, two new U-turns from the Labour leader before midday.…
France is tiring of Macron’s gimmicks
President Emmanuel Macron and his freshly installed Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, appointed a new French cabinet this week. It is…
‘I still need to live’: Christian preacher Hatun Tash on the plot to kill her
When Hatun Tash went missing before Christmas her friends and family had good reason to be worried. In recent years,…
Britain is soft on crime
I’m not actually a journalist, although I’m often described as such. Along with all the other critics, polemicists, and columnists,…
Does Rishi Sunak care about Ukraine?
I’m told that these days you can still buy pastries which look like Boris Johnson, or drink beers with Boris…
How Hamas radicalised Israel’s liberals
I have visited Israel three times in the past year. The first trip was in the spring, just as the…
When will Kamala Harris come clean?
The world has changed since Kamala Harris ran for president in 2019. The US has withdrawn from Afghanistan (a decision…
Why France can’t save us
From an early age, my grandparents tried to save me the pitfalls of a lower middle class English existence by…
Democrats fawned over Fauci in closed-door Covid hearing
As a new Covid variant, JN1, has cropped up across America, the public health officials who were at the forefront…
Is the GOP about to sell out on the border?
Some details of the latest congressional border deal, negotiated by Republican senator James Lankford and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,…
Taiwan’s voters defy Beijing
Taiwan’s voters have defied Beijing’s threats and intimidation and elected as president the most independence-minded of the candidates for the…
In defence of Brewdog
Brewdog, the Scotland-based brewery that has exploded into an international business in the last 15 years, is never far from…
There’s another dodgy data scandal brewing
The government is reeling from the Post Office Horizon scandal. ‘Lessons must be learnt’, goes the cry around Westminster. But…
How the Houthis can frustrate the West
On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom launched two rounds of strikes against 72 Houthi targets in Yemen…
Ceding sovereignty?
What decision-making role will the Australian Parliament have in relation to the proposed International Health Regulations amendments? There’s a debate raging…
In praise of Sven-Goran Eriksson
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he has cancer and, ‘at best’, about a year to live. The…
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
Growing up in 1970s working-class Bristol (before it went all poke: posh and woke) life was so tribal that you…
The vast corruption of Ukraine’s sanctions regime
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a former US government official visited Kiev to inquire how he could help to supply…
