Is France finally changing its tune on Brexit?
The waiters can sometimes be a little surly. That holiday villa you booked in the Loire may not always be…
Even Spotify has tired of Meghan and Harry’s repetitive schtick
As Oscar Wilde said of the death of Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not…
Boris gets a Mail column
It’s bad news for Rishi Sunak on the front page of the Daily Mail. No, not the splash about a…
I’m backing RFK Jr.
In the spring of 2021, I was barred from attending the remainder of my graduate school program at NYU for…
Misinformation, disinformation, and cloudy thinking
I have a friend, well educated and aware of current affairs, but I always seem to have some sort of…
Why Biden 2024 is no sure bet
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not an intimidating political opponent. Or at least not on the surface. Yes, he is…
Always Sunny: going where others wouldn’t dare
Few would believe me If I said that a show about a group of politically incorrect, sociopathic, and narcissistic alcoholics…
Amazon shuts down smart home after hate speech allegation
News of Amazon allegedly locking out a smart home user over hate speech allegations is raising questions about technocratic overreach.…
Education, education, education
It is indubitable that a good education leads to a better life for those who are fortunate enough to receive…
A guide to Basel’s artistic delights
Standing on the quayside beside the River Rhine, gazing at the happy teenagers swimming in the dark water down below,…
The troubling truth about Boris’s partygate inquisition
There is something faintly ridiculous about the Privileges Committee’s report on partygate. Sixteen pages in, you encounter the following sentence:…
Boris Johnson took us for fools. Now we have proof
No one wants to talk about the pandemic anymore. Not even partygate. Understandably so: we’ve all put hard work into…
Let’s not follow Boris down his path as ‘Britain’s Trump’
The Commons privileges committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson is completely damning. All the kerfuffle about whether the…
Three things we’ve learned from the Partygate report
The Privileges Committee has today published its findings on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled MPs over Partygate. The House of…
Full text: Boris Johnson’s response to the Privileges Committee’s report
This morning the Privileges Committee published their findings of their investigation into Boris Johnson’s conduct in the wake of the…
The partygate report is damning for Boris Johnson
The Privileges Committee has published its report on whether Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over partygate. It is damning. The…
Putin is lining up a lengthy list of scapegoats for his war
Lately Vladimir Putin has been strikingly unwilling to subject himself to any serious debate about his war in Ukraine. On…
Cambridge College goes for Woke
There are some wokefications in this world of ours that are a little more disheartening than others. One of those…
In need of a tree?
As traumatic accounts of families struggling to pay their mortgages or rent fill our newspapers and TV screens, spare a…
Save the planet … sacrifice a child?!
In my previous article, I expressed the view that modern environmentalism resembles a pantheistic religion in that it contains a…
21st century snake oil
Big Pharma may appear to be the zenith of craven greed and duplicity with their billions made off vaccines they…
Could cutting inheritance tax keep the Tories in power?
Is cutting, or abolishing, inheritance tax the key to keeping the Tories in power? Inheritance tax is certainly unpopular and…
Cormac McCarthy is gone – but his works remain brilliantly alive
Until yesterday afternoon, Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (better known to readers as Cormac) was the greatest living American writer –…
Britain must not import America’s abortion culture war
British politicians tend to avoid the issue of abortion. The subject divides America bitterly, yet Britain has opted for consensus.…
The visionary madness of Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi, whose state funeral will take place today in Milan, was the first modern populist. The media tycoon became a politician to take…
