Just how ‘painful’ will Starmer’s October Budget be?
Winter is coming. That’s the message from Keir Starmer’s set-piece speech this morning from the No. 10 rose garden. After…
What Carol Vorderman gets wrong about the TV industry
Carol Vorderman has given a speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival, in which she complains that the TV industry is too middle class. This…
Hate speech excuse silences free speech on university campuses
One of the first decisions of the newly elected British Labour government was to shelve plans to protect free speech…
Watch: Labour minister squirms on ‘passes for glasses’
At long last, it’s finally here. After five days of media trails, Keir Starmer’s equivalent of the Gettysburg Address will…
Disastrous ABC performance demanded MD’s departure
ABC Chair, Kim Williams, has correctly shown his Managing Director the door. The reasons for doing so are many. David…
The rise of Isis in Russia’s prisons
On Friday, a hostage crisis unfolded at the IK-19 prison colony near Volgograd, the southern Russian city once known as Stalingrad. Four…
French Jews are living in fear
The Paralympics begin in Paris tomorrow but the feel-good factor generated in France by the Olympic Games at the start…
The horrors of an Oasis reunion
Twenty years ago, I suffered through seeing Oasis perform at Glastonbury. It remains one of the worst, if not the…
Sven-Goran Eriksson was an England great
Sven-Goran Eriksson, who has died aged 76, was an unlikely choice for the England job in 2000. He was inexperienced…
Calm down about the Notting Hill Carnival
There was recently a mass public party at which all sorts of offences were committed. As innocent attendees cut loose…
The culture wars are far from over
It’s only been a month since the new Culture Secretary, Lisa Nandy, declared that the ‘era of culture wars is…
Beware the infiltration of ‘pocket socialism’
Have you ever noticed pockets of socialism appearing in our society? I refer to identity politics practices that infiltrate our…
Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel
Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…
Have the ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ cards finally been over-played?
The left like to accuse the right of being mean. Apparently, we don’t care about meaningful things as much as…
Large swing in the NT does not make QLD a foregone conclusion
On Saturday, the Northern Territory Country Liberal Party (CLP) achieved a 10 per cent two-party preferred swing to oust the…
How serious is the Starmer sleaze row?
Another week, another accusation of sleaze in relation to the Labour party. After initially winning some plaudits over the summer…
Two successive 2024 campaigns in a very strange election year
This is one very strange presidential campaign. That’s not just because it seems to go on forever. This one seemed…
Labour’s outrageous attack on academic free speech
In an extraordinary outburst, a government source has described the new Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act, introduced by the…
In defence of Kirstie Allsopp
The jibe, commonly attributed to Napoleon, that England is a nation of shopkeepers, was at least a sort of compliment.…
Is anti-tourism becoming Spain’s Brexit?
Believing that membership of the European Union was undeniably beneficial for the UK economy, many Remainers struggled to understand why…
Ignoring the Taliban won’t end their reign of terror
The Taliban have always had a strange misogynist world view, weirdly preoccupied by sex. The first time they were in…
The race for Arctic dominance has entered space
In the years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the west has been forced to tackle the question of national defence…
The arrest of Pavel Durov raises awkward questions
Pavel Durov, Russian-born founder of the Telegram messaging and social media app, has been arrested in France for failing to…
Are Labour about to u-turn on the winter fuel payment?
Could Labour be about to water down its removal of the winter fuel payment for pensioners? The chorus of muttering…
Israel’s strikes on Lebanon bring Jerusalem one step closer to regional dominance
As the dust literally settles across southern Lebanon in the aftermath of the Israeli airstrikes, we are starting to see…
