Inflation falls to 8.7% – but pressures remain
Since the start of the year, politicians and central bankers have been promising a collapse in the inflation rate. But…
ChatGPT hires human to pass ‘are you human’ test
AI life can lie to humans. Computer programs are perfectly happy to manipulate us in order to fulfil their programmed…
Labor’s coal-fired green dream
With cost-of-living pressures really starting to hurt Australians, Labor’s green dream would be a complete nightmare if it wasn’t for coal.…
Will Ron DeSantis announce he’s running for president on Twitter?
Ron DeSantis is set to announce his 2024 presidential bid during a Twitter Space with the app’s ‘chief Twit’ Elon…
Aseem Malhotra: truth seeker and a truth teller
It’s been said that in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Are you free…
There’s something off about the Voice
Now, here’s a curious thing… In 1999, the republic referendum cost $66 million. In real terms today, that’s $133 million. Since 1999,…
Boris referred to the police over lockdown breaches (again)
Just when Boris thought the worst was over with Partygate. The former Prime Minister has today been referred to the…
Upshots from politicians delivering more free stuff and regulations
The forerunner of democracy – a post-medieval one-man-one-vote – was propelled by radicals seeking greater freedom of trade, speech, and…
We need to talk about Just Stop Oil’s class privilege
I have never felt such a strong desire to buy a man a pint as I did when I watched…
How the Cardiff riot was sparked by social media
After a traumatic night which saw rioters torch cars, volley fireworks at police, and indulge in nine hours of mayhem,…
Tory MPs line up to support Suella Braverman
Once it was David Gauke, then it was Michael Ellis. Now it is Jeremy Quin who bears the honorary title…
Are things beginning to look up for the UK economy?
We learned this morning just how much the government is struggling to keep its promise to bring down the national debt. But…
Prince Harry’s legal defeat will be particularly painful
Today, Prince Harry lost a court case. If the law of averages is to be believed, he has involved himself…
Is Germany turning against the EU’s Green Deal?
Last week it was President Macron who was rowing back on green measures. In a speech he asserted that Europe…
Prince Harry loses his police protection legal challenge
It turns out that Home Office can get some things right. The department’s lawyers have today triumphed in their battle…
Muslim activists can’t cancel The Kerala Story
Britain’s cinemas are in danger of becoming the new front line of protests from angry religious mobs demanding the cancellation…
Martin Amis and the idolatry of style over substance
To be a bookish young man in the late twentieth century was to be a Martin Amis fan. I was…
What is Lee Anderson up to?
A new week brings with it a new backbench group. The New Conservatives are a dozen MPs who are drawn…
Is Macron losing France’s war on drugs?
The story that dominated much of the French media last week was the vicious assault of a shopkeeper in Amiens. A…
Elon Musk, George Soros and the blurring of life and art
Was Elon Musk antisemitic when he compared George Soros to Magneto, the apparently Jewish, Marvel Comics supervillain? Whatever one’s view…
The price others pay for our next-day deliveries
When I was not more than nine or ten years old, I sent off in the post for a free poster…
Double Shot Ep2: is Western Civilisation failing our kids?
It’s hard not to look around at the youngest two generations and wonder, what happened? They are depressed, scared, confused,…
Bud Light remains for sale in virtually every Trump Organization business
As the Bud Light War enters what feels like its fifth year, Cockburn has further evidence that America’s “wokest” brew…
Autism rises as the NDIS expands
An article in the Weekend Australian on April, 2023, titled, Autism to cost budget $8.25bn: will the safety net break? was…
Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum
Mimi Vang Olsen operates in the West Village equivalent of a goldfish bowl. Every day, the eighty-five-year-old pet portraitist settles…
