Football’s problems run far beyond the Qatar World Cup
Are there any redeeming features of the Qatar World Cup? Perhaps one: the tournament has a sane and logical format.…
How Matt Hancock turned a failure into success
Eating kangaroo penis on live TV will not be the first gut wrenching challenge of Matt Hancock’s career. At the…
Why Turkey and Ukraine called Putin’s grain deal bluff
Earlier this week, Vladimir Putin declared an end to the deal allowing Ukraine to export its grain to the world.…
We need to talk about boomer radicalisation
Andrew Leak, the man named as the perpetrator of the petrol bomb attack on Dover migrant centre was, on the…
Matt Hancock is perfect for ‘I’m A Celebrity…’
How can a man have such good and bad judgement? Matt Hancock’s wife is an absolute babe, but his career…
Zero-Covid is the new one-child policy
It has been a remarkable few days for China’s increasingly absurd and at times chilling zero-Covid campaign. There was outrage…
Musk reveals free speech owned by advertising giants
The Twitter elite, who spend most of their time preaching about socialism and ‘equality’, have debased themselves to the level…
Tim Ryan’s phony ‘moderate’ persona
Tim Ryan is cunning. Facing an ultra-tight race against J.D. Vance for Ohio’s US Senate seat, Ryan is hedging his…
On the (dystopian) beach
Nevil Shute’s classic apocalyptic 1957 novel about the end of the world, On the Beach, was set, as such horror…
Manchin’s rebuke shows how toxic Biden’s energy views are
It’s not often that a senator launches a brutal, frontal assault on a president from his own party. It’s even…
The National Theatre deserves to have its budget cut
The arts cuts have arrived. The biggest loser is English National Opera whose annual award of £12.6 million will be…
Covid blurred the separation of Church and State
Churches allowed fear of the omnipotent God to be replaced with the fear of a fragile virus, making saviours out of health officials
Serbia’s membership talks should embarrass the EU
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looked on with uneasy pride as leaders from…
Britain needs to take back control of its borders
Britain has lost control of its borders. Over the last four years, the number of asylum-seekers and illegal migrants who…
Is Russia preparing to surrender Kherson?
Will they stay or will they go? The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has become the current focus of the…
Arts Council England and the war on opera
Instructed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to move money away from London and reassign it to…
Why are excess deaths higher now than during Covid?
More people are dying every week than during Covid’s peak years. Last month there were 1,564 more deaths than average…
How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe
In May 2000 a French newspaper published an article which declared that ‘The Albanian mafia is corrupting Europe’. Le Parisien reported on…
No amnesty for pandemic fanaticism
A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: ‘Sorry, not Sorry.’ The sarcasm best…
It’s the parallel economy, stupid!
There’s a lot of rumbling about American polarization these days. Sometimes it takes the form of people advocating for a…
How Democrats’ open border policies alienated Hispanics
Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many…
The Pelosi/McCarthy feud at the heart of the midterms
Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t like Nancy Pelosi. In this, he’s hardly alone — the list of those…
The Right will slay this Woke dystopia
Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?
Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states
Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…
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