Barbie’s critics are the real snowflakes

25 July 2023 11:38 pm

Hold on: I thought it was the wimpish new left that loses its rag over ‘offensive’ culture. Aren’t snowflakes usually…

The comfort of drinking at the Hound

25 July 2023 10:42 pm

In the historic downtown of York, Pennsylvania, near the courthouse where the Articles of Confederation were drafted and a farmers’…

BBC issues another grovelling apology

25 July 2023 10:39 pm

Sorry doesn’t seem to be the hardest word over at the BBC. The Corporation has had to issue another grovelling apology –…

Sunak will have to water down net zero sooner or later

25 July 2023 8:04 pm

The Uxbridge by-election has thrown Labour into a civil war, or at least a civil skirmish. Keir Starmer has told…

Just Stop Oil have finally met their match

25 July 2023 7:37 pm

Have Just Stop Oil finally met their match? The splendidly named counter-organisation ‘Just Stop Pissing People Off’ have pulled off…

Gove rows back on 2030 petrol car ban U-turn

25 July 2023 7:28 pm

If you U-turn on a U-turn, does that make it an O-turn? That’s the question Mr S is wondering this…

Double Shot Ep12: Senator Babet on the scourge of censorship

25 July 2023 1:30 pm

Special guest Senator Babet of the UAP talks about the government’s new censorship bill to silence the public on social…

Misinformation: as meaningless and misused as masks

25 July 2023 5:30 am

Nearing the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Nurse Ratched stated, ‘The best thing we can do is to…

What a topsy-turvy land

25 July 2023 5:00 am

From a literary landscape once carved by iconic texts like the Magic Faraway Tree, with characters Moonface, Silky, and Saucepan…

Labour still can’t be trusted on trans rights

25 July 2023 4:34 am

Today, Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, has pledged in a Guardian article that ‘Labour will lead on…

How to silence a climate change zealot

25 July 2023 4:30 am

I’ve never understood the fascination dogs have with the wheels of cars which is demonstrated as they come running out…

Operation Get Trump

25 July 2023 4:09 am

Humankind, said T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. A case in point was the chyron that Fox News posted…

Labor has been hostile to the Constitution since the 1890s

25 July 2023 4:00 am

Many in favour of the Voice fail to understand the purpose of a nation’s Constitution. Before voting, Australians need a…

‘Set by human hands’ – are arsonists burning Rhodes?

25 July 2023 3:12 am

Whenever a fire starts and it’s hot, usually in summer, the climate change zealots come out to gloat about how…

BBC finally apologises to Nigel Farage

25 July 2023 3:03 am

Dogs bark, cows moo and the BBC makes a hash of it. After holding out for a week, the Corporation…

Is Ron DeSantis the new Kamala Harris?

25 July 2023 12:26 am

What if the problem for Ron DeSantis isn’t that he resembles the spiraling candidacies of the past, but that he’s…

Elon Musk has launched X to kill Twitter

24 July 2023 10:51 pm

It will trash the brand. It will alienate its core users. And relaunching and rebranding a failing business almost never…

Meet the men who want to bring back the woolly mammoth

24 July 2023 10:49 pm

A few minutes into celebrated Harvard geneticist Dr. George Church’s appearance on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert motioned towards him conspiratorially.…

The unlikely new kingmakers in Spanish politics

24 July 2023 10:47 pm

Depending on how you look at the result of yesterday’s general election in Spain, either everyone won or no one…

When will Spain’s political paralysis end?

24 July 2023 8:49 pm

Sunday’s general election in Spain was supposed to answer the question: will Spain be governed for the next four years…

Artificial Intelligence is the crack cocaine of the digital age

24 July 2023 8:32 pm

The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards…

Is global warming behind Greece’s wildfires?

24 July 2023 8:10 pm

Summer wouldn’t be complete without hordes of disgruntled British tourists being evacuated from their hotels, flown home early or spending…

Minister calls in the banks after Farage account closed

24 July 2023 7:40 pm

It’s a month since the Farage Coutts row blew up and there’s no sign of it calming down any time…

Immigration and a government in a state of post-hypnotic suggestion

24 July 2023 7:15 pm

Hurrah! The government, it was reported yesterday, is working on getting some more migrants. To plug a million-strong post-Brexit labour shortage in…

Drones strike Moscow in fifth attack since May

24 July 2023 5:45 pm

For the fifth time in three months, Moscow has once again been targeted by drones. In what is fast becoming…