How much longer can Netanyahu resist a hostage deal?
Thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv following the killing of three young Israeli hostages by the Israeli Defence Forces…
Michelle Mone and the rise of the ‘fight back’ documentary
You can’t turn on the telly or fire up the internet these days without stumbling across some celebrity or other baring their…
Why is the French left so willing to excuse Hamas apologists?
One hopes that the arrest of seven suspected members of Hamas last Thursday by European police has embarrassed numerous politicians…
Eddie Izzard loses, yet again
Oh dear. Labour’s biggest loser has done it again. Poor old Eddie Izzard has a pretty poor track record when…
‘Awaiting the tsunami’: the danger of coercive control laws
A few weeks ago, thousands took to the streets of Madrid to march on behalf of children’s rights, holding banners…
Walking the walk: what happened to the good old days?
As an ‘Old Bushy’ who has a patriotic and passionate love of our country, its environment, its history, and the…
Postcard from Buenos Aires
Wide awake at 3 am, in submission to the gods of jet lag, seemed an apt moment to jot down…
Baroness Mone ‘can’t see what we’ve done wrong’ over PPE pandemic profits
Baroness Mone: ‘I can’t see what we’ve done wrong’ Laura Kuenssberg’s show this morning was dominated by her interview with…
Javier Milei’s radical reforms could start to heal Argentina’s economy
Argentina has spent most of its 200-year history in deficit; no other country currently owes the International Monetary Fund a…
How serious is Cornish nationalism?
The Office for National Statistics has been publishing interesting insights from the last census – perhaps to counter the bad…
Rejecting the Queensland Climate Transition Bill
In March, Greens MP Michael Berkman introduced a Private Member’s Bill, the Queensland Climate Transition Bill 2023. The proposed legislation…
Stella Creasy is wrong about the ‘motherhood penalty’
If you find yourself frazzled by the Christmas rush, spare a thought for Stella Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, who is…
The admirable humility of Japanese sports stars
Who is the best paid sportsperson in the world? Cristiano Ronaldo perhaps? Or Kylian Mbappé? Lionel Messi? Novak Djokovic? LeBron…
Who will rebuild Gaza?
When the last shot is fired in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the fog of war eventually lifts, the challenge…
Are men really that difficult to buy for?
With Christmas rushing at us like a bull in a Westfield, many blokes of a certain age will have already…
Don’t cry for Shane MacGowan
Shane MacGowan’s death and his star-studded funeral captured the headlines this week. But the fawning and fanfare felt oddly dissonant…
Anti-Semitism is a threat to the West
Down the road from where I live in Islington, the Jewish community put up a menorah in a park on…
Shards of truth: the compatibility of farming and renewables projects
Up to one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural farmland could be destroyed by the industrial-scale solar panels and wind turbines
We’re back in the USSR
We have been handed a load of lies for many decades. I cannot tell which of them is the biggest,…
Portland’s decriminalisation nightmare
In November 2020, Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalising non-commercial drug possession. The state also significantly increased funding for recovery and…
Why won’t Macron agree to an immigration referendum?
It is a peculiarity of the age in France that the subject that most divides the political class is the…
Does it matter if Hannibal is played by a black man?
It is becoming a familiar conundrum: whether to employ actors who match the ethnicity of the person they are portraying.…
How to rig a Serbian election
Serbia is heading to the polls, again. On Sunday, the country will vote to elect a new national parliament and…
Netanyahu has finally realised Russia is no friend of Israel
When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a 50-minute phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin last weekend, it was…
Claudine Gay’s way with words
Claudine Gay is a self-declared “transformational” president of Harvard University. She campaigned for the job by promising to retire the…
