Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob and the truth about Palestinian ‘solidarity’
So now we know what a ‘globalised intifada’ might look like. That’s what people chanted for on the streets of…
Statement from our former Prime Ministers
Six former Australian Prime Ministers, notably excluding Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating, have written and signed a two-page letter condemning…
Why the Kremlin will fear Dagestan’s anti-Semitic mob
As the war in Gaza continues to have global repercussions, a mob in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala stormed…
Will Israel’s military strategy work against Hamas?
Israeli soldiers are the masters of street fighting. It is unlikely that there has not been a single month in…
Why are feminists like me being labelled ‘far right’?
In what would no doubt come as a shock to great feminists like Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvia Pankhurst and Simone de…
What the Babylon scandal tells us about the British government
One of the consistent themes of Dominic Cummings’s kamikaze mission to reform the machinery of the British state was that…
Tearing up over ‘Friends’ lost
Over the weekend I found myself ‘tearing up’ over the news that Matthew Perry had died, aged not much older…
How Giorgia Meloni stabilised Italy
Giorgia Meloni has just marked her first year as Italy’s prime minister. When elected, she was described as a far-right…
Fixing potholes is a policy we can all agree on
On my way to the local tip, my car lurched as I backed out over the naturally occurring drain that…
Do Covid vaccines meet the definition of gene therapy?
Serious questions are being asked of Australia’s Office of the Gene Technology Regulator
The Bowen delusion
Both the ALP and the Coalition, ostensibly as a means to reduce national emissions of CO2, espouse wind and solar…
Evacuate Gaza, but don’t call for a ceasefire
In every round of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the last 20 years, I have always wanted an immediate…
How long will Jeremy Hunt remain as chancellor?
As Jeremy Hunt prepares for next month’s autumn statement, the question being asked among Tory MPs isn’t so much what…
Can Starmer take the heat off the Labour ceasefire row?
Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure from Labour frontbenchers to change tack and back calls for a ceasefire in the…
Victoria’s culture police
Imagine there is a Colonial Heritage Council funded by the Victorian state government which has been awarded powers to enter…
Why the far left supports Hamas
It’s not often that Brits can say that the US is behind the UK. But in understanding the dynamic between the…
Ukraine’s sabotage tricks are causing concern in Washington
There has never been any doubt that Ukraine was the focus of an intelligence war as much as a physical…
Sunak has united conservatives but not how he hoped
Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…
Turkey has plenty to celebrate on its centenary
It’s difficult to imagine the Middle East having reason to celebrate. It happens, however, that today is the centenary of…
Activist curators are spoiling Britain’s museums
History, we’re told, is written by the victors. But nowadays, it seems it’s museum curators who really have the final…
I’m not going anywhere
The other day I found myself in a defiant mood. It’s not my default position, these days. Most often, I…
SARS: a warning about tyrannical health bureaucracies
I was reading through Jeremy Clarkson’s The World According to Clarkson – a collection of his Sunday Times columns from way back…
In praise of Mike Pence
Mike Pence was never likely to win the Republican nomination for president, and today he recognized the inevitable. He withdrew…
Mike Pence drops out of the 2024 race
Former vice president Mike Pence is suspending his bid to be the 2024 GOP nominee for president of the United…
Tribeca’s fine dining l’abeille strives for comfort while pushing boundaries
When New York City restaurants closed their doors in March 2020, Rahul Saito and his husband Howard Chang took a…
