Wokus Pocus and the Culture War
‘As we fight to tackle the climate crisis and the inequality crisis, we should be campaigning side by side with…
Walking Hanoi
I let the roosters wake me at 4:30 a.m., since it’s already 88 degrees out, will be 100 by noon…
Whatever happened to 1.5°C?
On the Kenny Report recently, fill-in host Chris Smith railed against the Greens’ demands that we ‘do much more to cut…
Energy policy: where parallel universes are set to collide
There are parallel universes in energy policy and they are about to collide. In one universe, the governments of Australia…
The politics of a cult
The Left’s entire political corpus is built on a fantasy
Biden’s humiliating Middle East excursion
Anyone anticipating significant progress or even directional clarity arising from the 13-16 July visit by US President Joe Biden and…
Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is about politics not diplomacy
The Biden administration is increasingly concerned about a trip to Taiwan next month by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And they…
Is the US in recession?
There’s an almighty debate ongoing in the US about what exactly a ‘recession’ is. Regardless of semantics, the numbers are…
Asking a rabbi about abortion
When the Roe news broke, my thoughts — myopically — turned not to the millions of Americans who were rejoicing,…
Why the Tavistock clinic had to be shut down
There are many reasons why what is sometimes crudely called ‘the trans issue’ is important. One is the political failure…
Could Boris return?
Asked recently whether Boris Johnson, Britain’s soon-to-be-ex-Prime Minister, would ever return to the highest elected office in the land, super-loyalist…
Scotland’s drug deaths scandal is a problem no one seems able to solve
Scotland has a high amount of drugs deaths. But it’s not just that. It’s that Scotland suffers drugs deaths at levels…
Prince Harry presiding over ‘toxic boys’ club,’ former employees claim
Steerpike is fond of a periodical check-in with modern Renaissance men. And they don’t come much more multi-talented than Prince…
Biden’s word play can’t save the United States from a recession
Some denials are more worrying than their absence. A company insisting that its director will be vindicated by the forensic…
Admit it: monkeypox is kind of funny
When monkeypox crept onto the scene last month, with a handful of confirmed cases in the US, it seemed too…
Forced public affirmation is not ‘inclusion’
‘It’ll be an inclusion game,’ they said. ‘It’ll celebrate diversity,’ they promised. And so it was. Except that the Manly…
Has the BBC’s diversity push led to racism?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the public-funded national broadcaster of the UK, has been wandering into territory many wouldn’t hesitate…
Netherlands: the summer of discontent
The Netherlands has descended into an ideological war zone between city-bound bureaucrats trying to polish their climate credentials on the…
Truss gambit outflanks Sunak on China
Talk about a tale of two campaigns. China has been one of the dominant themes this week in the Tory…
Let the games (and the business) begin!
Today, over 5,000 competitors from nations as far afield as Malaysia to Jamaica converge on Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games.…
Australia: apathetic or activist?
A commonly-held view is that we are living through diabolically fractious times. Indeed, even a cursory reflection on the recent…
Angela Rayner ally sacked by Starmer
Sam Tarry, who joined today’s picket line at Euston and gave various interviews from there, has been sacked from the…
Has the lab leak theory really been disproved?
The BBC carried a story this week with the headline ‘Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market’. Bizarrely…
Labour MPs cheer ‘drag story hour’
Summer recess is here and MPs are competing for the Tory leadership or jetting off on their hols. For some,…
Why are we so afraid of nuclear power? (2021)
The scientist, environmentalist, futurist, inventor and creator of the Gaia hypothesis James Lovelock has died, aged 103. Last October, he…
