Nuclear panic and radiation risk: reality or ideology?
We were recently reminded of the horrors of war by the anniversary of the 200,000 lives lost in August, 78…
Elites around the world are wilfully blind about Trump
Loads of commentators on the left of the political spectrum seem completely unhinged when it comes to former President Trump.…
‘M’ is for Marxism: schools get an ‘F’ for fail
Australian schools are failing our children. Instead of teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, schools have become centres for brainwashing. From…
How the Tories plan to take the fight to Labour on the NHS
Brace yourselves for health week. After the rip-roaring success of the government’s ‘stop the boats’ week, you might forgive the…
Will the SNP ditch ‘fringe extremist’ Greens?
Is First Minister Humza Yousaf at risk of sacrificing crucial SNP votes by refusing to ditch his party’s coalition with…
The drop in language students has nothing to do with Brexit
The number of students studying modern languages is plummeting, The Sunday Times says today. ‘The number of pupils studying German…
The mystery of the Baltic god in Kent
One of the stranger events of the summer of 2023 is the sudden and unexplained appearance, one night in early…
What explains Taiwan’s warmth towards Imperial Japan?
The online TaiwanPlus news agency reported recently that a new memorial had been unveiled in southern Taiwan to commemorate the…
Do we need a nationwide DNA database for crime?
When a man has spent 17 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit, there are many urgent…
Lincoln’s Inn has fallen for the latest fad
The story of the out-of-touch 1960s High Court judge asking counsel ‘Who are the Beatles? Are they giving evidence in…
Should we be looking at geo-engineering the climate?
Has a well-meaning international effort to cut pollution from ships contributed to a sudden warming of the waters in the…
Aliens probably exist, but they haven’t visited us
The military types who recently testified before a congressional hearing about their close encounters with UFOs were not the usual suspects…
The onset of bankruptcy: from green to red
Like the onset of bankruptcy, great awakenings come slowly at first then rapidly. So it is with the global warming…
Sad times for the larrikin
When Bob Hawke died, I received a phone call from an old family friend who jokingly reminded me to put…
The FOI response that exposed the SNP’s EU delusion
Tony Blair famously regretted his government’s introduction of freedom of information laws. ‘You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There…
Hilariously failed gender re-education caught in the wild
I was sitting in a cafe last week when I overheard the pair sitting beside me. It was one of…
Brighton rock bottom: How the Greens nearly destroyed the city I love
When you’re short-sighted, everyone seems attractive; for this reason, I don’t often wear my glasses, as I think myopia has…
Joe Biden was right to withdraw from Afghanistan
‘Today was hard. I can’t imagine what it was like for the families of those we left behind.’ That was…
National service is a bad idea that won’t go away
My father did National Service and was lucky enough to end up in Trieste, which was probably the best posting…
The unbearable strangeness of the Ukraine war
As a journalist, I’ve been on the periphery of quite a few wars: for example, I went to Bosnia as…
Modest fun: Red, White & Royal Blue reviewed
Red, White & Royal Blue is a rom-com based on the LGBT bestselling novel by Casey McQuiston. Nope, me neither,…
Albo’s fake truth-telling
As this magazine has pointed out, and not always tongue-in-cheek, wait long enough and today’s vehemently denounced conspiracy theory is…
Brown study
There is certainly a right for former judges to put an advertisement in the newspapers extolling the virtues of the…
