Sport used to be one of the last institutions that could transcend all the divisions in society – at least…

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali has stolen even more of Greta Thunberg’s childhood by winning this year’s Nobel Peace…

I have written before about the actual policy proposals supported by Greta Thunberg and the Global Climate Strike initiative, which they see…

The People’s Republic of China this week has celebrated 70 years of existence. At the start of October 1949, Mao…

The hills are alive with the sound of shrieking from the Democrats and their PR wing in the mainstream media…

Yawn. The whinging is as reliable as clockwork. Just the packaging changes: The UN has called for a global “green new…

Question. Answer. No. What? You want more detail. Ok… It’s really a no-brainer. Revolutionary movements like communism and Nazism, which…

According to the United Nations – and Greta Thunberg – four million people around the world, mostly students who walked…

I don’t know Gladys Liu from a bar of soap, so I have no idea whether she has any compromising…

Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters-gatherers to Disney, so no wonder that contemporary madness is slowly seeping into…

Equality between the sexes, so good in theory, doesn’t necessarily deliver in practice: Marriage rates have steadily declined over the…

The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In other words, those who don’t believe in…

Eighty years ago today, World War II began. On September 1, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and…

Contrary to the impression you might get from reading my blog or following me on social media, I’m not actually…

Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author…

Amazon rain forest is burning in Brazil and people are angry: When a fire tore through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris earlier…

Nick Kyrgios is a dick. True, I don’t know Nick, so I apologise to him if I’m wronging him, but…

“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…

What was that Malcolm Turnbull once said about “the prime minister who broke the nation’s heart”? Whatever the case, he…

A team of researchers from the University of Missouri and the University of Essex have produced a new way of measuring…

This is what the Steve Martin/John Candy classic comedy would be like if remade by Greta Thunberg. In the Swedish version,…

If I were a state education minister I would make it a compulsory part of a high school curriculum for…

Actress Rosanna Arquette is in the news for tweeting the other day “I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me.…

I’m of mixed views about the burqa and the niqab (more Islamist than Islamic head to toe “modesty wear” which…

If you are a woke Millennial, chances are at least some of your older relatives – parents, grandparents, uncles –…