Tracey Emin and the problem with museum trustees
The Royal Academy has nominated Tracey Emin to be a trustee of the British Museum. There is quite a fanfare…
The strange tale of Count Kalergi and the Pan-European Union
If the European Union created its own version of Mount Rushmore, who would it place in its pantheon? Horst Köhler,…
The tyranny of consensus killed science
We live in an Age where science is governed by a tyrannical consensus rather than truth
Mental health and the Christian man
November 19, International Men’s Day (IMD), highlights worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families, and communities.…
Parable of the apple and the hand grenade
It came to pass one day, an apple and a hand grenade came face to face. I am an apple,…
Vivian Silver and the collapse of the Israeli left
The well-lived life and foul murder of Vivian Silver encapsulate the hopelessness of Israel-Hamas war and the bad faith that…
Everton’s problems are only just beginning
Pity the poor Everton fans. Just as their once mighty club, now a perennial relegation battler, seemed to have a…
The sinister push to expel the Israeli ambassador to Ireland
There have been diplomatic tensions between Ireland and Israel almost since the latter was founded. Ireland only established diplomatic relations…
The brilliance of A.S. Byatt lives on in her writing
Dame Antonia Byatt, the novelist A.S. Byatt, has died after a long illness. With her goes part of the conscience…
Is Rishi Sunak preparing to throw Tory Red Wall MPs overboard?
Can the people around Rishi Sunak really be dim enough not to have anticipated that his reshuffle would go down…
How will Israel deal with the threat of Hezbollah?
From the very beginning, the war between Israel and Hamas has not been confined to just one front. The Iran-backed,…
Volhynia and the forgotten massacre of the Second World War
Completely innocent men, women and children have been slaughtered. ‘Terrorism’ hardly suffices to describe the savage rampage beyond the Gaza…
Do we really need more diversity on Gardener’s World?
Boo. Monty Don is retiring in a couple of years as presenter of Gardener’s World, because it’s getting to be…
Dutton’s genuine leadership
There is a rather delicious irony in the timing of Sky News’s documentary about the chaos, destabilisation, backstabbing and all-round…
London notes
Against common perceptions most political functions are drably catered affairs. Cheap wine, nuts, chips, maybe of the gourmet Red Rock…
Our enemies have all the time in the world
Patiently waiting while the West does their dirty work for them
People of extraordinary glamour
A refreshing and humbling prospect, in a world where we sometimes imagine cultural coverage gets better, is to revisit the…
Aussie life
I’ve never been a fan of Gordon Ramsay. More prudie than foodie, perhaps, I’ve always believed that what comes out…
