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…
The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what…
Does tennis have a doping problem?
Is it more remarkable that Romanian two-time Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep took performance enhancing drugs, or that she was caught?…
Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare
The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…
Putin is resurrecting Russia’s ‘iron rogues’
A year before Russia launched its brutal campaign to subjugate Ukraine, I visited a wintry Moscow. It was striking to…
Nimbys and Greens are teaming up to block German wind farms
Germany’s Robert Habeck might well be an excellent children’s book author but he is proving to be a dismal economy…
Confessions of a dog hater
Rishi Sunak’s plan to ban American Bully XLs is welcome news for us dog haters. It’s long been said that…
Desalination… Will it work this time?
With the return of Premier Palaszczuk, overdue decisions will need to be made about water supply for the South-East corner…
Unexpected costs
Manipulated estimates of Levelised Cost of Energy tables showing wind and solar to be the cheapest supplies of energy are…
The toxic prison attitude that can cost inmates their lives
David Morgan, a 35 year-old man, told staff he’d taken an overdose. A nurse decided the man seemed drunk and…
Why some men are obsessed with the Roman Empire
Why do men think about the Roman Empire so much? That’s the subject of a new social media trend, where…
Empty shelves, desolate minds: Canada’s ‘equity book-weeding’
At least in previous centuries a trail of smoke loitered in the air after the censors were done burning books.…
How an American racing driver and war in Mongolia helped to defeat Hitler
Of all the ‘practice’ wars that preceded the main events of the second world war, including the Spanish civil war…
Why Iran’s opposition failed
Today marks the anniversary of the brutal slaying of 22-year old Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s so-called morality police…
The EU needs a coherent strategy on Russian sanctions
This week, the European Union opted to extend sanctions on some 1,800 Russian companies and individuals for another six months,…
Seven of the worst people in politics, according to Rory Stewart
If only more politicians were like Rory Stewart. That is pretty much the gist of his book Politics on the…
How museums lost their way
What’s the point of museums? According to researchers at the University of Leicester, museums should help children explore their gender…
Was Liz Truss wrong – or wronged?
A year ago, Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng had just announced that they would hold a mini-Budget. It turned out…
Don’t cry from pleasure: chef Ciccio Sultano’s Sicily
The Cerebrus heatwave is as fierce as they said it would be. I feel like I’m being microwaved on a…
No must take care
If the polls are correct and the predictions of certain commentators are accurate, we are now less than a month…
Brown study
Just when we thought it was safe to assume that the No case would win the Voice referendum, along comes…
