Crisis of soul: moral relativism and the modern university
Alan Bloom, perhaps modern education’s greatest post-war critic, wrote presciently on Western elites’ decaying moral and intellectual fibre. Bloom’s 1987…
Britain needs to rethink devolution
Scotland is stuck. This week has only confirmed it. SNP leader Humza Yousaf used his party conference in Aberdeen to…
The madness of Net Zero
How crazy has the world become? What we are watching is the most insane delusion faced by humankind. To believe…
Lost in Translation was Tokyo at its bizarre, dislocating best
You can wait ages for a Japan themed Hollywood film and then three come at once. In an odd spasm…
The Age of Audits
Australians are being ripped off, and they know it. The stench of bureaucratic waste has been seeping out of Canberra…
Why Angela McLean’s ‘Dr Death’ jibe matters
Does it matter if the chief scientific adviser referred to Rishi Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ In a private message to…
What Liz Truss did next
It was a year ago on Wednesday that Liz Truss left office. As the ministerial cavalcade rolled out of Downing…
AI will destroy TV news
As we all know, the last few days have been filled with terrible news out of Israel and Gaza, and…
Why the kids hate Jews
The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will…
The Tory war on woke won’t work
Visibly desperate Conservatives are counting on their opposition to the left’s cultural revolution to save them, if not from defeat,…
Time to punish the Big End of town?
Australia’s Big End of Town gambled heavily in the Voice Cup. They lost. Only the Nanny ‘State’ (Canberra) voted ‘Yes’,…
Belgium’s cowardice is preventing it from tackling its terror threat
Last year, a French broadcaster asked if Belgium was in danger of becoming a narco state. The question was posed…
Our enemy, the government
The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny…
Jihad chanters let off by the Met
Oh dear. It seems that the wokest police force in all the West has done it again. In the past…
Education vs Wisdom: referendum voting patterns come under fire
Waleed Aly was technically correct, but perhaps discourteous, in the way he expressed the socio-economic difference seen within voting patterns…
ATACMS missiles alone won’t change the game in Ukraine
America’s ATACMS long-range missiles were a potential ‘game changer’ to the war in Ukraine to some, a potential source of…
Can the BBC World Service really go on like this?
The BBC has launched what it is calling an ‘urgent investigation’ into six journalists and a freelancer working for its…
False rape allegations aren’t so rare
Remember how the Brittany Higgins case blew up when a juror brought into the jury room an academic paper discussing…
Albotross
The Prime Minister now hangs around the neck of the Labor party and leftist politics in general like Samuel Taylor…
