The real difference between Sunak and Truss’s tax policies
The Tory leadership race is becoming a test of patience. Today Rishi Sunak has laid out his plan to slash…
The police crackdown on social media has gone too far
Last week, I spent a night in a police cell. My ‘crime’? To intervene after I witnessed an ex-soldier being…
The BBC’s gender equality project has come unstuck
The BBC’s 50:50 project is designed to empower women. One of its targets is to ensure that half of the contributors…
Truss’s promising stance on Scottish independence
Much to the chagrin of colleagues, friends and ex-friends, I’ve spent the past few years raising the alarm about how…
How Russia’s war in Ukraine has changed Estonia’s outlook
Estonian Independence Day – celebrating the country’s 1991 emancipation from the Soviet Union and the Kremlin – takes place on…
Sunak is running out of time
This could be the biggest week of the Tory leadership campaign: postal ballots will start arriving on members’ doormats in…
Should Apple snoop on your iPhone?
Should Apple use software to scan the photo library of every individual iPhone in search of images of child abuse?…
The National’s Anglo-bashing hypocrisy
Given the Scottish political establishment’s misty-eyed myth-making about Scottish nationalism — it’s civic! Joyous! Inclusive! — Mr Steerpike admires the…
Liz Truss’s critics are making the same mistakes as Reagan’s enemies
Admirers of one of America’s great modern historians sat up and paid attention when Liz Truss told the Times in…
Why can’t we enjoy England’s football win without politicising it?
Not everything has to be politicised all the time. Some things are just news. Often bad news, such as an…
Does Britain lack the minerals for green fight?
Amid all her remarks about tax cuts, freedom and, er, Don Revie, some of Liz Truss’s comments were overlooked on…
What does England’s victory mean for women’s football?
Well, thank goodness for that. Just as it seemed the England’s women’s football team might be about to extend the…
The trouble with Sunak’s tax promise
Rishi Sunak should have started his campaign offering a 4p cut to income tax, instead of focusing on a Cameronesque…
The ‘conversion therapy’ canard
In 2016, the Obama-Biden administration concluded that “the quality and strength of evidence” for medicalized gender transition was “low” and insufficient…
The worldwide working-class counterrevolution
Something is happening across the world right now, something that deserves more attention than it’s getting. First, to the Netherlands,…
Albanese copies Ardern, seeking to enshrine race in politics
At first, I was a surprised that it took our new Prime Minister little more than two months since his…
Canberra: where electricity is a luxury the poor can’t afford
‘Where do you go?’ They are all older women, retirees from the federal and territory public services, the ASO 5…
The Guardian slumps to the Left
Oh no… Woke flagship publication The Guardian (that doubles as a slightly-deflated life-raft for perpetually offended social justice warriors) has reported a…
Race, sex, and rugby
Sport has been an unlikely ground for the games of race, sex, and power to play out, but last week…
