Turning students into barely literate social justice warriors
The recently released results of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) confirm yet again the significant and systemic…
Not exactly a ‘safe pair of hands’
I’m not the first to point out the incredible disconnect of Team Albanese when it comes to our top judges,…
Single-sex schools – are they a thing of the past?
Regensburg Cathedral School in Bavaria was founded in 975. For a thousand years, it only admitted male pupils. In 2022,…
The ECHR has become a danger to Europe
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats, just as Giorgia Meloni won’t nor Emmanuel Macron, not that the president of…
Why are MPs endorsing Stonewall’s rainbow laces campaign?
Our Members of Parliament are not short of stuff to do. There’s immigration – of the legal and illegal varieties…
Why is Australia turning its back on Israel?
In the days after the 7 October attack on Israel, Australia vowed to stand with Israel. It appears to have…
Sunak’s popularity hits record low
It never rains but it pours. Every time poor Rishi Sunak seems to catch a break, bad news appears just…
Will Javier Milei’s ‘shock therapy’ work?
The Argentinian peso has been devalued by 50 per cent overnight. Controls on exports have been scrapped, and the country’s…
Cop’s pledge to move away from fossil fuels is a farce
So, a deal has been reached. The world has agreed on what Cop 28 president Sultan al-Jaber has called a…
Is Britain’s economy ‘going backwards’?
Has the UK economy come to a standstill? This morning we learn that the economy contracted by 0.3 per cent…
Why isn’t Biden being straight with Zelensky?
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington a year ago was a love-fest, characterised by standing ovations from American politicians,…
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats
Do not let the relatively comfortable margin of victory for the Rwanda Bill’s second reading fool you: we have now…
Defending Matthew Williams’s Givenchy
Matthew Williams, the tattooed American fashion designer and creative director at Givenchy, will soon be evicted from the famous house.…
Sunak wins the Rwanda vote – but the battle is far from over
The government has won Tuesday’s vote on the ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill comfortably at 313 votes to 269 against. This…
After the Thalidomide apology, where is the Covid vaccine apology?
What a difference 61 years makes. In November 1962, thalidomide was withdrawn from use in Australia but only now has…
Don’t welcome me to my country
Shockingly, Australia Day festivities have been cancelled in London due to ‘sensitivities’! As a proud Australian, I believe that politicians…
Tammy Peterson: awareness of the transcendent
Tammy Peterson is the wife of celebrated psychologist and co-founder of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), Jordan Peterson. Tammy…
The L Word – do no harm, take no shit
Libertarian: noun – ‘An advocate or supporter of a political philosophy that advocates only minimal state intervention in the free market…
Net zero minister forced to fly back for crunch vote
It’s been a rather difficult week for Rishi Sunak, and it’s still only Tuesday. After being grilled by the Covid…
Does a fifth of the population think we should still be in lockdown?
That shutting people away in their homes for weeks on end was going to have a bad effect on mental…
Turkey’s shameful referee attack was waiting to happen
All football matches in Turkey have been suspended after a club president invaded the pitch and punched a referee in the…
The convenient timing of Meghan and Harry’s Christmas video
There’s that well-known saying of ‘anything you can do, I can do better’. In what can only be an attempt…
Where is the solidarity with Guyana?
On Monday, the Stop the War Coalition (StWC), the environmentalist group Just Stop Oil (JSO), the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG),…
Asylum seeker dies on board migrant barge
An asylum seeker has died on the Bibby Stockholm boat. The identity of the migrant who lost his life on…
Macron suffers a ‘stunning’ setback over his immigration crackdown
Emmanuel Macron refused to accept the resignation of his interior minister on Monday evening after the government’s immigration bill was…
