What did we really learn from Dominic Cummings’s leaked WhatsApps?
It’ll be years before the Covid inquiry reports back on what we can learn from the pandemic, but already there…
Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem
Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…
How contentious will the King’s Speech be?
This morning King Charles will take part in the state opening of parliament for the first time as monarch. The…
Demography is destiny
That the West is in decline is hardly news. Plummeting educational attainment decreases in life expectancy, and strains in the social fabric are just a few…
Islamic Republic of Iran and Hamas
As the Islamic Republic of Iran and its terror networks cause death and destruction in Israel and Gaza and threaten…
The Paris crowd
Last month, the Paris-based OECD published its latest assessment of the Australian economy. Nobody read it other than those people paid to…
Aren’t you fed up with the ABC?
I don’t know whether you can still get liquorice allsorts, but they used to be popular with children, if not…
The Met’s strange approach to protest
Demonstrations against Israel, some attracting many thousands of people, have become a regular occurrence. We have grown used to the…
Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?
The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security…
Just Stop Oil: the locusts of politics
Swarms of attention-seeking activists with nothing to contribute to the world except grandstanding, vandalism, and inconvenience are back to their…
The danger of Hamas drone attacks
The rise of the combat drone is changing the nature of the battlefield, as Israel has already found to its…
Why won’t Gary Lineker call out the fascism of Hamas?
One of the most curious things following Hamas’s massacre of the Jews on 7 October was the silence of Britain’s…
In defence of ‘rip-off’ airline charges
The Conservative party is 25 points behind in the polls. Its backbenchers are scrambling around to find new jobs, and…
The trouble with Olaf Scholz
German chancellor Olaf Scholz still doesn’t get it. ‘Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf’ (the fish stinks from its head) is…
Will Rishi Sunak’s electric car targets backfire?
Rishi Sunak was attacked by the green lobby for delaying the outright ban on new petrol and diesel cars from…
Next year’s US election promises a crisis
There’s only a year to go until the most complex and consequential US presidential election ever. Ukraine, the Middle East,…
Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north…
What can be done about AI porn?
The foul-mouthed puppet musical Avenue Q, way back in 2003, caught the spirit of the age to come. ‘The internet is…
Is the West losing interest in Ukraine?
There’s a very different tone coming from Kyiv these days. Speaking to Time magazine, Volodymyr Zelensky had just returned from Washington…
Are we diluting the meaning of ‘mental health’?
What does ‘mental health’ mean? Is the answer to that question undergoing a generational change, as younger people become more…
Only conservative values can save us
In the endless cycle of the Social Media doom scroll, I came across a meme not too long ago that…
Victorian Parliament at its worst
Since the recent Referendum, many commentators have referred to the state of play in the Victorian negotiations between the state…
Gentle parents, ruthless children
As someone perpetually infuriated by the general public, I’m not quite sure why I enjoy train travel so much. Taking…
Western decline is not inevitable: ARC tells a ‘better story’
The inaugural Alliance for Responsible Citizenship forum held in London this week repudiated the direction our politicians are leading us.…
Oliver Dowden: I have ‘grave concerns’ about Armistice day marches
As the conflict in Gaza continues, there is increasing division over the crisis here in the UK. Keir Starmer continues…
