Sub-optimal desalination for sub-tropical Queensland?
The present Queensland government’s Water Security Plan includes doubling the present capacity of the existing desalination plant at Tugun, and…
Superiority complex at the heart of elite activism
The defeat of the Voice Referendum is no reason to rejoice, but rather a time for reflection. Indigenous communities need…
Spectacularly wrong on foreign policy
It isn’t uncommon for foreign policy prognosticators to get things spectacularly wrong. What sets Jake Sullivan apart, in my opinion,…
Has the Bank of England done enough to stave off recession?
The Bank of England has held interest rates at their 15-year high for a second time. Markets were expecting another…
Kamala Harris doesn’t get AI
At least Kamala Harris managed to avoid the dreaded phrase that we should ‘harness AI’s ‘potential’. But that was just…
We’re still recovering from lockdown’s impact on children
Some 140,000 children missed more than half of the school days they should have attended this spring. Research by the…
How does releasing mice in McDonald’s help Palestinians?
It is hard to know what to make of the sheer mindless stupidity of some people who claim to support…
Why did the United Nations hand a human rights job to Iran’s ambassador?
What does Iran have to teach the world about human rights? The United Nations appears to think we have plenty…
Konstantin Kisin, ‘We are in the fight of our lives’
Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this speech by Konstantin Kisin at the inaugural ARC (The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship)…
Tuning in and dropping out at Gilpin Hotel
It is 7.30am, and already seventy degrees in Bowness-On-Windemere. A rare, early summer heatwave. My friend Ebele and I lower…
Wikipedia at war
Twenty years ago when I attended university, I was told by lecturers in no uncertain terms that Wikipedia should not…
The problem with green energy is … basic physics
All green energy generation schemes are dishonest schemes, for various reasons. They all need enormous tax-payer funding to make them…
Whitehall’s pandemic ‘dystopian nightmare’
The Covid Inquiry has been taking evidence from Helen MacNamara, Deputy Cabinet Secretary from 2020 to 2021. During Dominic Cummings’s…
Kamala Harris’s brain-dead AI plan
Try to think of leading names in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Kamala Harris is probably not the first that…
The Covid inquiry is Brexit redux
Yesterday saw the latest performance of one of the longest-running dramas in town. In many ways, the Covid inquiry felt…
When did we change our minds about Little Britain?
Little Britain is ‘explicitly racist and outdated’. That’s the verdict of viewers asked by Ofcom to watch a 2003 sketch…
What’s stopping a housing crash?
Should we really believe that house prices rose by 0.9 per cent in September, as claimed by the latest release…
Can Spain’s monarchy survive?
‘We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as…
Should Charles apologise to Kenya for Britain’s colonial past?
It was no coincidence that Kenya was chosen for King Charles’s first state visit as monarch outside Europe. After all,…
An Israeli ceasefire would be a major strategic error
It would be a major strategic error for Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza, as some are calling…
Rishi Sunak is too late – the AI monster is at the door
He must be a busy man, Rishi Sunak. When he’s not rescuing the country from inflation, sending the Royal Navy…
The Saudi World Cup is a new low for Fifa
Fifa, world football’s governing body, is an organisation that is devoid of anything resembling a moral compass. In its place,…
It’s a bit late for Dominic Cummings to apologise
Dominic Cummings showed up at the Covid Inquiry dressed in his signature white shirt. Plus, in a nod to formality,…
Centralisation, the Voice, and why the National Curriculum should be abandoned
Centralised control results in a hierarchy of out-of-touch elites, neglects local agency, and creates unnecessary layers of red tape and…
Boris Johnson was right to say the NHS was not overwhelmed
The trivia-obsessed Covid Inquiry has today been having fun with Dominic Cummings’s emails and finding rude words he used about…
