NATO’s post-Cold War strategy has been a disaster
NATO is fighting for its life — and dying. The alliance has only grown larger as a result of Russia’s…
Labor’s immigration hypocrisy: young and vulnerable hit hardest
Chris Minns – who lives in a house – seems to think you should live in an apartment, and the…
Why Democrats and Republicans are so worried about third parties
In the closing months of the 2022 midterms North Carolina residents began receiving text messages and phone calls from unfamiliar…
Donald Trump’s foolish abortion gamble
Abortion was the single biggest issue that led to Donald Trump winning the 2016 election. It may be the single…
Welcome to a country of crony capitalism
There’s a new welcome uttered around the Albanese government offices: ‘We acknowledge the fawning directors present and emerging of the…
Hello darkness my old friend
The other night my wife and I sat down to a nice candle-lit dinner and a glass of wine, but…
The upside of living in Japan’s ageing society
For the first time more than 10 per cent of the Japanese population are aged 80 or older, according to…
Decarbonise the planet, are they mad?
The lunatic scheme to sequestrate carbon dioxide (CO2) several kilometres underground has been initiated by government programs, including Australia, with…
Liz Truss is no fiscal hawk
Was Liz Truss a fiscal hawk inside No. 10? That is the rather startling claim made by the former prime…
Will Germany be the first to ditch its net zero commitments?
Things are not going well in Germany’s bid to reach net zero by 2045, five years earlier even than Britain’s…
Are we heading for a Sunak and Starmer podcast?
Theresa May always had a camp appeal. The clumsiness, the dancing, the incredible squareness. Mrs Thatcher never took that crown – she…
The best cooking podcasts
There comes a time in every home cook’s life when she is separated from her craft. This may be due…
World events are not going America’s way
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the world situation is grim for America. And it could actually get far worse. Why,…
Watch: GB News hosts clash over Russell Brand
It all kicked off on GB News this morning, following a joint Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into…
Who cares if this UCL academic ‘undermined’ Britain’s history?
There’s a long list of academics, some of whom are on the right, who have had their lives made difficult…
What Liz Truss’s big speech is really about
Liz Truss will take to the stage this morning for her first major intervention on the economy since leaving No.…
Russell Brand’s gags are coming back to haunt him
It has now officially all gone wrong for stand-up’s sex god. Ahead of Saturday night’s Channel 4 documentary about Russell…
The ‘naive cynicism’ of Russell Brand’s hasty defenders
I can’t imagine that Channel 4’s investigative slot Dispatches has had such an audience in living memory. On Saturday evening, many…
A driver’s case for 20mph limits
Speeding kills, we’re told. But in the right circumstances, exceeding the limit is no bad thing. Take motorways: few drivers…
In plain sight: Disease X and the countermeasure cartel
As a Gen Xer, I’m old enough to remember the Cold War and US-Russian tensions in the ‘arms race’. I…
If I were as brave as Jacinta
This week, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price demonstrated her credentials as a potential Australian Prime Minister. She is a member of…
New College of Florida is right to abolish gender studies
Predictable accusations have greeted the announcement by Manhattan Institute fellow Chris Rufo, trustee of the New College of Florida, that the…
Stopping the ChatGPT cheating epidemic is racist…?
While at a grocery store over the weekend, I came across a pair of Year 10 girls from a nearby…
Is Australia self sufficient?
Australia’s unsettling lack of industrial and productive self-sufficiency was accentuated throughout Covid, with the ramifications of vulnerable international supply chains…
Poland and Hungary could come to regret their Ukraine grain ban
The row over Ukrainian grain imports shows that politicians in Eastern Europe can be their own worst enemies. Five Eastern European…
