Unravelling UNRWA
UNRWA, which describes itself as a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has…
Gallagher’s Digital ID announcement fact-checked for misinformation
Labor has decided to rush one of its most hazardous policies through right on Christmas hoping this would strip the…
What fiction can teach us about terrorism
The first decade of this century, following Al Qaeda’s attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in September 2001,…
The Bowen Shock in your energy bill
My recent electricity bill was informative but menacing. It had several bits of statistical info, including the variation in consumption…
Sunak loses Commons vote for first time as PM
The government has just been defeated in the Commons for the first time since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. It…
The Tories’ migration crackdown will have many victims
The UK’s immigration system must be ‘fair, consistent, legal and sustainable’, proclaimed the new Home Secretary as he presented his…
Venezuelans voted to annex Guyana. What’s next?
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro carried out a controversial referendum on whether more than two-thirds of Guyanese territory is Venezuelan land this…
Still lost in China: conservatives must help liberate imprisoned patriots
Australian conservatives are in an uproar about the state of discourse on university campuses, especially after instances such as Harvard students’…
The chilling link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
Isn’t it remarkable how similar anti-Zionism is to anti-Semitism? The latest proof of an intimate link between these two ideologies…
Albo’s dangerous Loophole Bill is struggling but far from dead
The Albanese government’s attempt to revolutionise Australia through its industrial relations Loophole Bill is struggling. The government wanted to ram the Bill…
Cleverly promises to cut migration by 300,000
‘Migration to this country is far too high and it needs to come down’, began James Cleverly at the despatch…
The Tories are governing for Westminster obsessives
You know the Tories are worried about their core vote when they start talking tough on the BBC licence fee.…
Alan Jones: Covid vaccines to haunt the next election
Covid vaccination, which was previously made compulsory and denied employment to the unvaccinated, may well become an election issue. Let…
Eddie Izzard’s charm offensive backfires
If there’s one thing Eddie Izzard can’t be faulted on, it’s enthusiasm. The comedian and actor, who also self-identifies as…
Starmer has no vision. Is that a bad thing?
Keir Starmer seems to be most comfortable when he’s pointing out how badly the Tories are doing, rather than when…
Starmer offers a heavy dose of the big state
Keir Starmer wants to set expectations early. Speaking at the Resolution Foundation’s economy conference later today, the opposition leader used…
Sunak to unveil new measures on legal migration
Rishi Sunak has had a bad start to the week, with the latest ConservativeHome cabinet league table placing him at…
Opening a bottle with… chef Heros de Agostinis
“Stealth wealth” became A Thing in 2023. TikTok was awash with “get the look!” fashion videos; magazines full of think…
Vivek is right: America is devolving into tyranny
Many commentators (including yours truly) have pointed out that America is divided more now than it has been since the late…
Starmer risks a backlash with his Thatcher praise
Two Telegraph stories in successive days illustrate Labour’s dilemma. Today the paper gives a favourable write-up to the party’s Australian-style…
Why isn’t the media challenging the $60 trillion Net Zero cult?
Those who believe renewable energy will save the planet generally have very little understanding about what the apocalypse is meant…
How China weaponises its cuddly giant pandas
So Yang Guang and Tian Tian are on their way back to China. Rather like a pair of high-profile celebrities,…
France isn’t buying Macron’s excuses after the Eiffel Tower terror attack
There was more bloodshed in Paris this weekend, this time involving a man who, prosecutors claim, had pledged allegiance to the…
Why the world loves Margaret Thatcher
There are many rituals surrounding the placement of a new Japanese Emperor on the Chrysanthemum Throne. Perhaps the most peculiar…
Why Starmer praised Thatcher
In an event that almost forms part of Britain’s unwritten constitution, if not quite as regular an occurrence as Big…
