Lords watchdog refused to back five nominees
It’s been a difficult few years for Paul Bew, chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC). Bew picked up…
Rostov returns to reality after Wagner’s botched coup
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, it always seemed likely that the war would come back to Rostov-on-Don, the…
Jonny Bairstow shows how to deal with Just Stop Oil
Give Jonny Bairstow a knighthood. Whatever else happens at the Ashes, or indeed throughout the rest of his cricketing career,…
Nato’s leadership race is a miserable advert for the alliance
Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has conceded defeat in his bid to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as secretary-general of Nato. Wallace…
France erupts in violence after police shoot dead a teenager
Much of Paris was a battleground on Tuesday evening as scores of youths rioted following the fatal shooting of a…
Mourning and Rage in Heidelberg West
As one exclusionary flag is reverently lowered in Melbourne’s Banyule City Council to mark the end of Pride month, a…
Does cricket suffer from ‘institutional racism’?
What a strange document the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket (ICEC) has produced, in its ‘Holding up a mirror…
Are the walls closing in on ol’ Joe?
Confronted with devastating evidence of Biden family grifting, the president’s advocates are abandoning their old defenses and trying some new…
Character, not category
We have lost ground on what good character means. It is because it has become harder and harder to know…
The abuse of a puppet President
Elder abuse is any act within a relationship of trust which results in harm to an older person. It can be…
Predators and parasites prowl the Bowen Basin
After our great adventure helping Utah Development Co locate and measure their magnificent coal resources along the western edge of…
Fatal attraction: the trans trend and ESG cage
If you had recently awoken from a decade-long coma and jumped online you’d think you were still in a dreamscape.…
Presidential hopeful Francis Suarez: ‘What’s a Uighur?’
Miami mayor Francis X. Suarez should pick Gary “Aleppo” Johnson for his 2024 running mate. After a revealing interview on…
Why Wagner’s coup failed
When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was launched, the overall mood among those around me – Russians from a range…
Elon Musk: innovator, CEO, ket head
What’s your poison? All of the greatest minds have one. Freud loved cocaine, Charles Dickens dabbled with opium, Steve Jobs…
When vegans are worthy of our disdain
Celebrity chef John Mountain made headlines last week for banning vegans from his restaurant, Fyre, citing “mental health reasons,” reportedly…
Pickles slaps down Boris over Mail column
Remember Eric Pickles? The larger-than-life Coalition mainstay who inspired such legendary headlines as ‘I did not spend £10,000 on extra…
Prince William should house the homeless on his lands
The Prince of Wales has announced that homelessness will be his charitable focus while he awaits his eventual succession to…
Europe is rapidly shifting to the right
‘The left is sweeping to power across Europe,’ suggested the headline in the Independent in September 2021. The newspaper called…
In praise of encyclopedias
Simon Winchester recalls the time — he was not yet three — when, stepping into his rubber boot, he was…
Putin is increasingly losing touch with reality
Trailed as an historic address to the nation following the weekend’s Wagner rebellion, Vladimir Putin’s short speech on Monday night was instead an…
Boris Johnson’s peculiar conservative conversion
In his most recent column for the Mail, Boris Johnson fires a shot at, among other things, ‘the leftie twittersphere’.…
What happened to QAnon?
“There’s a storm coming,” popular historian turned esoteric political commentator Neil Oliver posted on Twitter in May, “Maybe not today.…
What’s the true cost of the Rwanda deportation plan?
What’s the point of the government’s flagship Rwanda deportation scheme if it isn’t going to save money for the taxpayer?…
Parental rights or hateful extremism?
They are ‘hard-right, anti-government’ bogey-men threatening the lives of the LGBTQ+ and ‘democracy’! Or so went the general exclamation of…
