Macron’s trip to Washington is pure theatre
President Macron has landed in Washington with his fleet of jets to spend the next few days in procession across…
Parents need to do more to stop their kids watching porn
Nothing scares politicians more than telling parents how to do their job, which is a shame because a bit more…
Are the Tories in the throes of an existential crisis?
The UK government has had a fractious couple of weeks. First it was the Swiss EU deal rumours, then housing,…
Morrison: sorry – not sorry…
You’ve got to hand it to the Labor Party – when they get their paws on power, they waste no…
The alt-right are contrarian phonies
Why is an alt-right pundit all of a sudden best buds with the artist formerly known as Kanye West? Many…
‘Junior’ Coalition partner?
On Monday, the Nationals under David Littleproud and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took a political step that…
A belligerent Voice?
To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…
‘Racist’ Monkeypox renamed mpox - genius!
The World Health Organisation has announced a brand new, stigma-free, name for Monkeypox after US President Joe Biden denounced the name as racist. The…
Boys’ clubs under siege
Why do so many women have it in for male cyclists? All the jokes about unsightly middle-aged men in Lycra,…
A republic by stealth: why the King belongs on the $5 banknote
Do Australians know who is on their banknotes? How many of us, if asked randomly on the street, would be…
Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die
Donald Trump has caused something of a hugger-mugger over his last supper with Kanye West, or Ye, and Nick Fuentes.…
The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world
When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…
It’s nonsense to say we are no longer a ‘Christian country’
According to the census, British Christianity is having a disastrous century. In the 2001 census, a clear majority of people in…
The good, the bad and the ugly of the new Online Safety Bill
The new version of the Online Safety Bill seems, on the face of it, to be an improvement on the…
Has the Indyref ruling complicated Catalonian separatism?
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on Scottish independence will offer scant encouragement to separatists in Catalonia. The crux of the…
The Tories should defend free speech, not neglect it
The government’s Online Safety Bill is coming to look more and more like some ghastly juridical juggernaut: a vessel grimly unstoppable, even…
The New York Times does it again
Let me tell you a story, dear reader. It is about a land – a quasi-dictatorial kingdom no less – where locals…
The Online Safety Bill is still a censor’s charter
One of Rishi Sunak’s pledges was to remove the ‘legal, but harmful’ censorship clause that Boris Johnson was poised to…
Is Sunak tough enough on China?
When it comes to policy, the area where the least is known about Rishi Sunak’s views is foreign affairs. As…
China’s protests and the dark lesson of Hong Kong
It is easy to imagine that a dam might be bursting in China. There have been spontaneous street protests across…
Logjams and leaks plaguing parliament
It was Enoch Powell who once called the whips’ office ‘the sewers of parliament’. But it seems that – much…
Is Putin really to blame for this Belarusian minister’s sudden death?
Saturday’s news of the sudden death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei, as well as the rather terse nature of…
How revolutions begin, and how they can end
Across China, the world’s most populous nation and its second largest economy, scenes unprecedented since the Tiananmen Square massacre of…
Good on the Nationals
An obsession with race politics is a dangerous direction for any nation to take. Enshrining racial discrimination and supremacy into…
What conservatives lack
A famous passage in the preface to Lionel Trilling’s book The Liberal Imagination is widely quoted and just as widely…
