Gavin Williamson is still causing problems for Rishi Sunak
Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions showed it is possible for someone who has resigned for being a distraction to continue being…
Donald Trump is an albatross around the Republican neck
Donald Trump spent the days immediately before the midterms teasing and threatening his biggest Republican rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis.…
Another blue day for red New Yorkers
Lee Zeldin’s fairytale run for governor of New York fell short on Tuesday as he lost by roughly five points…
Is Netflix’s The Crown fact or fiction?
The latest series of The Crown has arrived on Netflix. To its predictable advantage, the show has already had the…
Why the red wave never crested
The 2022 midterm election was supposed to be a red wave. Instead, it turned out to be a night of…
Midterms: No red wave, America is still very divided
Is it a red wave? A ripple? Or a trickle? Nobody quite knows. However, what looks certain is that the…
Vic Libs: don’t be the Greens’ useful idiots
In April 1917, Russia was in uproar. Although the Tsar had been overthrown by a liberal revolution, chaos reigned, the…
The ABC, Playschool, and drag queen story hour
There’s a bear in there, and a chair as well, there are people with games, and stories to tell, open…
Trump calls for McConnell’s ouster on eve of election
Former president Donald Trump called for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to be replaced by Senator Rick Scott during a…
Blackboxed: New Zealand’s expensive management consultants
There’s a lot going on across New Zealand government agencies, and I suspect that the government is not too keen…
Williamson out after bullying allegations
In the past few minutes Gavin Williamson has quit the government after another formal complaint was made about his conduct.…
The voice of energy realism
The transition from coal is limited by the lowest level of renewable energy input to the grid on windless nights……
Sunak escapes blame over Williamson allegations… so far
Pressure is mounting on Rishi Sunak and Gavin Williamson. The official who alleged that Williamson bullied them when defence secretary…
WaPo calls out Biden’s lies with ‘Bottomless Pinnochio’ award
Cockburn’s monocle popped out of his head and plopped into his oatmeal yesterday morning as he perused the Washington Post.…
Good on ya Greta!
Big corporations will always find a way to be Net Zero with a bit of tricky accounting, but small businesses are the ones who will suffer
Macron won’t fix the migrant crisis
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron met on the fringes of Cop27 in Egypt on Monday and the Prime Minister emerged…
Britain would be wrong to pay climate change reparations
Is it right that Britain should pay £1.5 billion for developing countries to adapt to floods, cyclones and rising sea…
Cop27: Sunak’s first overseas trip as PM
Rishi Sunak is back from his first overseas trip as Prime Minister. Despite Downing Street having initially said he wouldn’t…
Raising inheritance tax is fair and right
Here’s a thought experiment about tax and fairness. Imagine two people, Janet and John. They’re both 30 years old. Janet…
Boris’s babes to join the Lords
They were the dynamic, priapic premiers who guided their country through a pandemic – and the comparisons between Boris Johnson…
Eco-loonyism is an upper-middle-class rite of passage
Greta Thunberg, the Shirley Temple of the apocalypse, let the cat out of the bag last week. She told the audience at her book launch that…
Rishi Sunak should consider levelling down HS2
If you’re after a lesson in how to lose friends and alienate people, look no further than the government’s cack-handed…
The Biden elephant in the room
Let us face an unpleasant fact that many seem curiously reluctant to report or discuss. President Joe Biden appears to…
Blake Masters grows up
In the clusters of billboards at intersections in Phoenix, positioned to grab the attention of drivers waiting for the lights…
The evidence is not ‘in’
It might take a catastrophe to stop politicians (and other cohorts) making assertions to justify consequential decisions without evidence –…
