The trouble with Tavistock
“In July, Britain’s National Health Service announced a major revamp of its gender identity services for young people. The famed Tavistock…
The depressing rise of the cathedral gimmick
They say that shopping centres are the cathedrals of late capitalism. It is amusing sometimes to think of future generations…
Europe’s new migrant crisis
Earlier this month I spent a week in Sicily, driving south from Palermo to Agrigento and then east to Syracuse…
How we fell for antidepressants
The French novelist, Michel Houellebecq, with his accustomed acuity about modern culture, titled his last novel but one Serotonin. By…
Thatcherism is a cult the Tories should not follow
Friedrich Nietzsche may not be the most fashionable member of the conservative canon, but doubtless he wouldn’t care much. He…
A republican Liberal is oxymoronic
I didn’t think this was possible, but even more indictments were levelled against Scott Morrison last week – something about him…
We reap what we sow
You reap what you sow, as St Paul once said. Thanks to Israel Folau, we know that St Paul said…
The strange morality of sponsoring weapons
Forget fund-raising concerts donating spare clothes and offering your spare room to a refugee family. There’s a better way of…
Don’t write off Michael Gove
No senior politician has ever possessed a talent for upsetting prime ministers to match that of Michael Gove’s. David Cameron…
It’s time to lift the medical student cap
Gaining a place in medical school has always been a lottery, made even more difficult for aspiring doctors this year.…
Ron DeSantis will save conservatism
There is an inevitability to Ron DeSantis’ rise to power that terrifies Democrat leaders. He is not an unstable political…
How Ukraine is sabotaging Russia’s army
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) or possibly partisan fighters have conducted successfully attacks on three significant targets in occupied Crimea…
Cultural appropriation has killed modern music
It’s a rule of life that adults shouldn’t understand young people’s music, ever since Little Richard made the old folk…
McGowan’s bid for total control
It is to the 19th century British historian, politician, and moralist Lord Acton that we owe the phrase: ‘Power tends…
The leadership qualities of a long-dead parrot
‘Be careful what you say,’ said my friend, ‘this guy is fanatical about the local colony of parrots and if…
DeSantis has started his presidential campaign tour
Pittsburgh Fresh off the campaign stage in Arizona, where he stumped for gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, Florida governor Ron DeSantis…
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First among equals
There was much hysteria this week over the news that former prime minister Scott Morrison had secretly sworn himself in…
You Newton Denier, you!!
Good news on the Great Barrier Reef challenges climate ‘science’
Sino notes
Two weeks ago, the Chinese ambassador to France asserted, ‘After the reunification with Taiwan, the Taiwanese population must be re-educated’.…
Business/Robbery, etc.
India’s strategically significant coal warning
Thank you, Nancy
China fesses up
Four Indians, five parties
India turns 75
Tyranny of bureaucrats
Pandemic lies
The United Banana Republic
The FBI raid on Trump diminishes America
