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Bloomberg is the only Democrat who can take on Trump
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the whirligig of time brings in… more whirligigs. Four years ago, few people thought that Donald Trump…
The deranged rage against the Brexit 50p coin
Remoaners are having the mother of all meltdowns. What’s rankled them this time? The Brexit 50p, of course. Yes, they’re…
What it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors
This is a short piece on Holocaust Memorial Day, and what it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Many,…
How Boris Johnson can emulate Margaret Thatcher
An open letter to Boris Johnson: People, even including your opponents, are getting used to the idea that you are…
Laurence Fox and the curdling of rational minds
I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
Do alarmists know the difference between weather and climate?
Until recently, those expressing scepticism about climate-change catastrophe have been hauled over the coals (or the renewables equivalent) for not…
How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All…
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
In contrast to prophets of doom, who get invited to Davos, asked to address the UN and are able to…
The trans-sceptic academic who now needs bodyguards for protection
‘You can’t change sex – biologically, that is impossible.’ That, by most people’s standards, is a simple observable truth. But…
Boris Johnson won’t dance to the tune of big business on Brexit
Now that the Withdrawal Agreement Bill has received royal assent and become law, the UK will leave the EU at…
Why Huawei may be allowed in the UK 5G network
Brandon Lewis, the security minister, is something of a genius at winsomely saying next to nothing. Even so I emerged…
Was this journalist sacked for saying ‘sex is binary’?
I write a lot about transgenderism. I do so for several reasons. Among them: because politicians still aren’t doing their…
British universities are a modern-day racket
One of the great myths of Scottish higher education is that it’s free. Outside observers can be forgiven for making…
Shinzo Abe’s luck is finally running out
The Japanese are fond of poeticising the fleeting beauty of the cherry blossom season, which no sooner reaches its full…
Climate change isn’t responsible for Australia’s hailstorms
It was pretty inevitable that once rain finally started to fall in South Eastern Australia, extinguishing some of the bushfires…
Keir Starmer makes it onto the Labour leadership ballot: who else will join him?
Keir Starmer has made it through to the final round of the Labour leadership contest, having secured the backing of…
Nobody cares who The New York Times endorses
There’s conceit, there’s pomposity, and then there’s the New York Times editorial board. Yesterday, the Grey Lady wiggled her well-connected bottom,…
Harry has deserted the Royal Marines in their hour of need
I have been trying with considerable success not to give two hoots about this Harry and Meghan thing. But a…
Forget moving the Lords – lets have an elected senate instead
In two weeks’ time, we will finally escape the European Union, freeing ourselves from its monumental waste. Waste, that is,…
Harry & Meghan have won – and the monarchy has lost
The ‘third way’ of being a senior royal – representing the Queen one day, earning serious money the next, was…
The Queen tells Harry: out means out
In the end, it took just over a week for Prince Harry to announce and finalise the terms of his…
On Brexit, no one quite knows where Boris is taking us
I am not going to lie: I am bored sick with Brexit. Like so many of you, I have become…
Is Labour heading for another Kinnock moment?
‘You end in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council – hiring taxis to scuttle round…
Let Big Ben bong for Brexit day
Something deeply embarrassing is happening in our country. It is not entirely clear why, but in an act of extreme…
David Attenborough is making the same mistake as Greta Thunberg
It wasn’t so long ago that Sir David Attenborough came across as a calm voice of reason. His much-admired documentaries…
