Is this the end of travel writing?
Viv Groskop shares Sara Wheeler’s fears that modern sensibilities are fatally threatening a centuries-old genre
The Lineker row isn’t about free speech – it’s a moral coup
So the cancel-culture set believes in free speech now? What a turnaround. People who have spent the past decade turning…
Wall Street wants Kamala. So do Republicans
Texas showdown Democratic congressman Colin Allred is mulling a run against Senator Ted Cruz, Cockburn has learned. No major Democratic…
Alan Jones: the inescapable truth of the energy crisis
If politicians cared to move into the real world and listened, rather than lectured, they would understand the inescapable truth…
Woke rail networks want to save the planet, but they can’t look after their stations
I was born in Wahroonga. Attended school there. In the decades since, I have lived in and around the little…
The BBC’s nightmare hat-trick of blunders
Oh dear. It seems that the BBC press office has had a nightmare 24 hours, with not one but three…
Should white people atone for colonial sin?
It has recently been reported in the ABC that Nathan Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist, is seeking the body of…
Sweden, Covid and ‘excess deaths’: a look at the data
Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via…
Victimhood: the inversion of evolution by social stealth
There’s an old saying: It’s not what happens to you that matters, it’s what you do about what happens that matters.…
Gary Lineker taken off Match of the Day
Talk about an own goal. It seems that Gary Lineker’s increasingly aggressive anti-Tory tweets have got the multimillionaire into hot…
GOP seeks answers from NBA over Chinese soft power display
House and Senate Republicans, along with a basketball star, are demanding answers from the NBA about its financial relationship with…
Ukraine can sympathise with Georgia’s pro-EU movement
Protests that broke out in Tbilisi against adopting a controversial Russian-style law have turned into a pro-European movement with political…
Will Sunak’s charm offensive with Macron yield results?
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron held a press conference together at the Élysée Palace today to mark their new deal…
Why Britain isn’t ready to rejoin the EU – yet
Is Brexit starting to unfold? Some Remain supporters think so. Poor economic performance, supply chain issues, and our inability as…
How Russia is dodging sanctions
They might not be the quick knock-out blow their champions misleadingly claimed they’d be, but sanctions are having a serious…
The problem with Boris’s honours list
There are plenty of Boris Johnson hangovers to give Rishi Sunak a headache these days. The privileges committee investigation into…
Ministers can’t blame Putin for the disaster that is HS2
And I thought the SNP were destined to win the award for this year’s most pathetic excuse – after Scottish…
GDP grows by 0.3% – but the UK economy remains stagnant
This morning’s release from the Office for National Statistics shows the UK economy grew by 0.3 per cent in January – an…
Can Macron get through the day without insulting the Brits?
The editorial in today’s Le Figaro heralds the dawn of a 21st century Entente Cordiale and the newspaper carries an interview…
The yin and yang of clean energy
After embarking on a clean energy tour to the US and Canada, I came back convinced that nuclear and renewables…
What’s in a name?
Indigenous disadvantage resides not in the affluent city of Mitcham, South Australia, but in the usually out-of-sight remote communities which…
Divine pronouns? Let God decide
The Church of England has been asked to respond to requests from clergy to use gender-neutral pronouns for God. The…
Why using the military against Mexico’s cartels is catching on
“Slowly at first, then all at once” is the most famous line Ernest Hemingway never wrote, and credit its fame…
Digital dystopia
Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical…
Gary Lineker doubles down on his Tory attacks
No red card for Gary Lineker, it seems. The Sun reports this afternoon that the outspoken TV presenter is staying…
