Rowing back on his climate plan, Starmer is in it to win it
Over almost 30 years in and around Westminster, I’ve noted some persistent and essential differences in the culture and mindset…
Will the tax burden finally start falling?
Is the government ready to start cutting taxes? After taking the burden to a post-war high, it seems ministers are…
Would Jesus really have joined the Bristol bus boycott?
St Mary Redcliffe church, in Bristol, has removed four stained-glass windows dedicated to the slave trader Edward Colston, he whose…
Sunak has hitched a ride on Biden’s climate gravy train
Sometimes it helps to have a banker as Prime Minister. They have plenty of faults. They can be dry, calculating,…
America is trapped in Trump legal groundhog day
Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If that’s true, then what…
Trump’s indictment shows his luck is running out
Donald Trump has chalked up a lot of firsts. First president to be a chum of Russian president Vladimir Putin.…
Prince Harry the Tyrannical
It is often said that Prince Harry is a ‘New Royal’. Emotionally literate, racially aware, eco-friendly (except when he’s flying…
Climate change didn’t cause Canada’s wildfires
Is the hazy stuff out there smoke billowing down from Québec, or hot air emitted from smoggy-brained politicians and journalists?…
RFK Jr. is as mad on foreign policy as he is on vaccines
Did you know that the Biden’s State Department is run by neocons? Or that Biden’s foreign policy is “bellicose, pugnacious…
Sunak and Biden’s White House love-in
Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden’s White House press conference started late, presumably to make a point that the two had…
Germany’s economy is the virgin tossed into the volcano
In 2015, Chancellor Angela Merkel spread out her arms and welcomed the third-world to come and share in the riches…
Parents left in the dark by new-age learning
In the jargon and edubabble much loved by new-age, Woke educrats teachers no longer teach, instead they are described as…
The Bowen Basin pioneers: prospectors, squatters, drovers, and miners
Viv Forbes was part of a small team of geologists given the task of mapping the Bowen Basin over the…
We have done it before, let’s do it again
I have previously argued that the Australian economy is headed down a ‘steep hill to the creek of insolvency’. Something…
It’s the economy stupid! Albo is heading the way of Gough and Rudd
The Albanese government came to power promising lower electricity prices, lower inflation, and higher wages. One year on, we have…
France comes under attack again
What kind of man walks into a park on a summer’s day and randomly stabs and slashes at toddlers? That is…
Is AI all it’s cracked up to be?
So is Artificial intelligence (AI) to be a new engine of growth for the UK economy? That is Rishi Sunak’s hope. Ideally,…
Will Britons be injecting their way out of obesity?
Is it right that the government is going to let more people use weight-loss jabs on the NHS? Anti-obesity jabs,…
Johnson’s honours list spells more trouble for Sunak
Another day, another episode in the ongoing Johnson-Sunak psychodrama. Following clashes over the Stormont brake and the Covid inquiry, Rishi…
The lessons of equal marriage we need to relearn
The way in which some activists campaign for their cause makes it difficult to believe they really want the rest…
Will the royal silence over Prince Harry’s trial hold?
It’s fair to say that, after an unimpressive first day on the witness stand in his case against the Mirror…
India’s war on Charles Darwin is a step too far
What is it that India’s rulers find so objectionable about Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory that they’ve banned his…
Down with Mount Rushmore
Just when you thought that Target in the US could not get any worse, it turns out that its Pride…
‘Unity in diversity’ – why not here?
During his most recent sojourn in Indonesia, Prime Minister Albanese may have found time to notice that nation’s national slogan…
Balancing public health and human rights
The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, which finds its roots in the International Sanitary Conference 1851, is a legal instrument…
