Collapse imminent for the European establishment?
In 2017, after Emmanuel Macron bested Marine Le Pen in the French Presidential election, following on the heels of defeats…
We need to talk about excess [censored]
Excess deaths have become the new taboo
Has Faruqi forgotten Islam’s colonising history?
In the first televised Christmas Broadcast in 1957, a young Queen Elizabeth II said something remarkably prescient and poignant: ‘The trouble is…
Power crisis in Europe
As summer mellows into autumn, Europeans are beginning to prepare for winter. This is bad news, as the winter of…
Salman Rushdie: a history of violence
In the classic Hitchcock film The Birds, there is an early scene where the protagonist notices a raven standing on the…
Has Pelosi helped square Xi’s Chinese puzzle?
Napoleon was supposed to have said, ‘Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.’ China is…
Al Gore compares 'climate deniers' to the Uvalde police
Ex US Vice-President Al Gore recently compared those who are not on board with his extreme and elitist idea of climate activism…
Has the BBC's diversity push led to racism?
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the public-funded national broadcaster of the UK, has been wandering into territory many wouldn’t hesitate…
Australia’s power paradox
Energy, energy everywhere, And all the lights did dim; Energy, energy everywhere, Nor any watts to glim. Or so…
Are you pregnant, sir?
When one thinks of Scotland, one might conjure up images of the hauntingly beautiful and bleak highlands. A place that…
Boiling in the Culture Wars pot
In recent decades, the West – like the proverbial frog – has been blasé toward the rising temperature of the…
21st century vandals
The nihilism of the times is displayed by the fact that protesters increasingly see fit to attack artworks or statues…
A global food crisis approaches
With the Covid pandemic, an ongoing war in Europe, and soaring inflation all jostling for the leading headline, some may…
Beyond Roe v. Wade
As the frenzy in America escalates around the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that challenges Roe v. Wade, I was reminded…
The fallacious Fauci flips
Why haven’t they fired Dr Anthony Fauci? Although Fauci had been given the task of leading America – and by…
First, do no harm
As the old saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is because unintended consequences have…
Frivolous games or serious politics?
How a war changes things… It was only a few short months ago that Boris Johnson’s prime ministership looked distinctly…
Dr. Livingstone, the racist, I presume?
The Australian political theorist, Professor Kenneth Minogue, posited the idea of ‘St George in retirement syndrome’ in his 1961 book The…
The political crevice on patriotism
It used to be the case that writers, including many who were radical and left-wing, would enter the fray. The…
Don’t erase Russian art over Ukraine
The outrage felt by many in the West in the face of increasing Russian aggression and the trails of blood…
Muzzling children to keep politicians happy
The Victorian government has finally scrapped mask mandates for most indoor settings as the number of Omicron cases continue to fall, and…
Zelenskyy and Ukraine are unifying the West
Lamenting an old England disappearing under modernity, Philip Larkin wrote in his poem Going, Going: Most things are never meant. The…
Watching lambs leading lions
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in Munich regarding the Ukraine crisis days before the invasion began. ‘Through those 70 years [post the…
The working class of the world unite – against the Left
‘Working men of all countries, unite!’ exclaimed the last sentence of Marx and Engels’s The Communist Manifesto. Looking around the world,…
Skin deep – a history of racial unrest
Whoopi Goldberg’s enormous faux pas – her insistence on The View that the Nazi Final Solution to the ‘Jewish question’ was not driven by…
