We are now a year and five months into the Trump presidency and the commentariat are still at a loss…

Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto. The Israelis are Nazis. Palestinians are the victims of genocide. These are claims that are…

The American revolutionaries claimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny”. In other words, taxing people, while denying them the vote,…

Stephen Hawking, the physicist and cosmologist who died last week, is now set to have his ashes interred alongside those…

Recycling is rubbish. Not in the sense that the stuff we recycle is rubbish – which it is, of course…

Freedom is not an unalloyed good. It allows people both to flourish and to make mistakes. Freedom, then, can never…

The Greens are a party without principle or common sense. They’ve proved their lack of seriousness by their attack this…

Last week something insignificant occurred that may in future assume greater importance. Just like the defenestration of Prague, which started the Thirty…

Contrary to the latest fashionable dogma, character is not everything in politics. It has its place, of course. But character…

Gough Whitlam coined a memorable political phrase when he said, “only the impotent are pure”. It’s memorable because it’s so…