Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…
Stag don’t: Britain’s deer problem is out of control
Britain’s annual wildlife spectacular is just warming up. From the Highlands to the New Forest, the raucous bellowing of amorous…
In defence of Eton’s Provost
The world divides into two groups. Those who liked school and those who didn’t. Sir Nicholas Coleridge, the next Provost of…
Could this former tantric sex coach become Argentina’s president?
One of Argentina’s presidential candidates is unlike the others. La Libertad Avanza’s Javier Milei whizzes past crowds shaking a chainsaw in the…
How Brits turned soft on crime
It is almost exactly 30 years since a young Labour politician told his party’s annual conference in Brighton that as…
My dreams perished — except the sports car
They say that, against all expectations, after the age of about fifty you actually get happier, and that much of…
Silent majority
And so here we are at a pivotal moment in Australian history. Australians must now make a decisive choice between…
Housing policy built on dodgy foundations
Government hasn’t got a clue about the economics of renting
That extraordinary mutant masterpiece
It’s been a long time coming, Patricia Cornelius’ My Sister Jill but she’s a playwright whose work demands to be…
Aussie life
The death of actor David McCallum last week prompted me to google the theme music for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,…
Language
A reader has asked me about the common expression ‘virtue-signalling’. The meaning, I think, is fairly clear. It is a…
Is this really the end of the A-level?
The history of education reform is a graveyard of acronyms: TVEIs, GNVQs and so on. There have been many well-meaning…
