Meg 2 The Trench lacks bite
If history teaches us anything, it’s really not a good idea to go on an underwater adventure in a billion-dollar…
GenCost and the renewables info wars
Energy policy is one of the great dilemmas facing Australian politics, and the cold war between renewables and voters is…
The lithium delusion: a big problem with big batteries
The development of lithium-ion batteries has changed the concept of energy storage. As their use expands, a potential downside is…
Just one look
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy is well out of his depth, yet he’s ankle-deep at the shallow end…
Humza Yousaf will be judged on Nicola Sturgeon’s mistakes
We must hope Nicola Sturgeon’s remaining supporters are, right now, judging her. That’s what she wanted, after all. In a…
SNP splashes taxpayers’ cash on ‘How to run a government’ book
As if there aren’t enough questions about the SNP’s spending habits, it turns out the Nats have been using £55,000…
Will Brits feel richer if inflation halves?
The government’s objective to ‘halve inflation’ by the end of the year seems to be back on track – for…
Sadiq Khan takes a pop at Lee Anderson over asylum seeker comments
Has Lee Anderson finally gone too far? Still reeling after finding out his son turned vegetarian at university (‘shocking, absolutely shocking’), the…
Putting maths back on the curriculum
The past 10 years, as every generation states, have taken a drastic turn with regard to the literacy and numeracy…
What the stabbing of Ian Watkins says about our prisons
This weekend, armed assailants tortured a prisoner and held him hostage in HMP Wakefield for six hours, before specialist prison…
The SNP is failing poor Scottish students
When she became first minister, Nicola Sturgeon told the nation that improving Scotland’s education system was at the top of…
Chinese cities are being sacrificed to save Beijing
Bazhou and Zhuozhou, two small cities to the south of Beijing, have been submerged in record floods since late July, when…
Amanda Abbington is right: drag queens aren’t for children
The Transgender Thought Police are impossible to please. The sooner Amanda Abbington realises, the better. The star of Sherlock and…
Sir Humphrey covers up, again
Good old Sir Humphrey. Tories, Labour, Lib Dems – whoever is in power, he always seems to win. In recent…
The Tories are heading for electoral evisceration
‘Whoever wins in September, the party will be stuck. Even in power it remains incapable of generating and delivering credible…
Britain has a productivity problem
First the good news – the fall in living standards may be coming to an end, with wages starting to…
Nicola Sturgeon’s splurges on airport VIP services
Despite it being the SNP’s main political goal, Scotland came no closer to becoming an independent state during Nicola Sturgeon’s…
We’re living through Barack Obama’s third term
One of the big questions in Washington and across the country as Joe Biden’s very public decline has accelerated is:…
Disease X, Covid, and medical greed: this has been happening for years
Years ago, I wrote an article for this publication called, Digital darkness: the third apocalypse. In it, I included a discussion…
They came not to praise Churchill, but to bury him
It is strange how the unelected see themselves as the elect… Recently the Board of Winston Churchill Memorial Trust waded into politics making a…
Pacifying the Voice: what happened to the dream of Federation?
‘When historical truth is involved, the more anyone claims to possess it the more he lies.’ – Albert Camus The optimistic intent…
Why I secretly loved the Barbie movie
It’s not okay for men to criticise the Barbie movie, apparently. In modern Australia, we’re supposed to permit two hours…
A respectful debate? Hardly…
A reply to Chris Kenny's comments on the Voice to Parliament and the 'no' campaign
Arise! Scottish nationalists could soon have their first Lord
It’s not every day a supporter of Scottish independence is in the running for a peerage, least of all from…
Watch: Matt Hancock’s cringeworthy Barbie singalong
Can Matt Hancock sink any lower? Considering that only last year he lost the whip for abandoning his constituents to…
