Is cash back?
Whatever happened to the great surge towards a cashless society which the pandemic was supposed to bring about? As I…
Are students really too fragile for Shakespeare?
What’s the point of a university? Regrettably, that’s a genuine question. The censorship and trigger warnings that are rife on British campuses…
What a coral reef misconduct claim says about climate science
On Monday, I wrote here about how the Great Barrier Reef is defying predictions of its own demise, bouncing back…
Do Conservative members miss Boris?
Boris Johnson is very much the elephant in the room of this leadership race, looming large over both Rishi Sunak…
Liz Truss’s camp hits back over Treasury windfall tax plans
Is the government about to toughen up its windfall tax? That’s the talk in Westminster today as Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi…
Is Liz Truss sowing the seeds of her own downfall?
Liz Truss looks to be winning a decisive victory for cold-eyed conservatism. A victory for I went to the school…
The Tories don’t care about generation rent
For millennials like me, the prospect of owning a home is a pipe dream. Soaring rental costs and crippling bills…
Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit
We are in the depths of silly season. The perfect time, then, for the Conservative party to be choosing a…
Truss turns on the media
To Darlington, for another of the endless Tory leadership hustings. Last night’s clash covered much of the same old ground…
China’s Taiwan tantrum is already backfiring
Chinese social media is full of anger and frustration – because the military didn’t shoot down Nancy Pelosi’s plane. As…
Healthy reef defies dubious science
‘Peer-reviewed’ is not interchangeable with ‘established fact’ or ‘beyond question’. It used to be an acknowledgement that others in the…
Pandemic ‘science’ in sports is a bit wonky
Cricket is played by a small number of people spread out in a vast paddock. This, however, did not stop…
Healthy Great Barrier Reef, healthy environmental scandal
The release of the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s Annual Summary Report on Coral Reef Condition for 2021/22 has exposed a major…
Could Russia stoke conflict between Serbia and Kosovo?
The prime minister of Kosovo has been talking about a possible war in the country, with Russia as the instigator. In…
Infectious disease dominates our roost
Infectious disease has been a deep-seated and inescapable feature of Australian life since the early days of settlement. Over the…
Donald Trump has a point about the Clintons
The year was 2001. George W. Bush had just defeated Al Gore in the infamous hanging-gigachad presidential election from hell.…
The BBC is wrong about OnlyFans
As the cost-of-living crisis bites and a recession looms, women are once again being fed a dangerous message: that the sex…
The next prime minister needs to stand up to Nicola Sturgeon
The next Prime Minister, whoever they are, really needs to get a grip on the declinism and defeatism of the…
Asylum base row after Sunak steps in
A curious row has exploded in the projectile-packed leadership race. This morning’s Yorkshire Post splashed on the news that Rishi…
The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party
It is always interesting to read the Wikipedia pages of plane crashes. Thanks to the data recovered from black boxes,…
Watch: Trump hints at comeback after FBI raid
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump is a brilliant political opportunist. And the FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate last night may…
We need to talk about tasers
Donald Burgess is the latest Briton to die after being hit by a police taser. He won’t be the last,…
Where will Boris write his column?
With just four weeks left in No. 10, rumours are swirling about Boris Johnson’s future plans. Will he quit the…
Why cost of living talks will have to wait
The Tory leadership candidates will not be joining Boris Johnson in emergency talks about support for people struggling with the…
Team Rishi is losing the plot on taxes
It would be an ‘electoral suicide note’. It would condemn the party to ‘the impotent oblivion of opposition’. And it…
