Let’s stop pretending the culture wars aren’t real
Are the culture wars real? Some assume that they’re an imaginary affair, or, at best, a distraction from the real,…
Is Macron finally taking on the cult of Net Zero?
Hell hath no fury like an environmentalist scorned and Emmanuel Macron has felt a wave of green wrath since his…
Brit-bashing Eurovision entry finishes second bottom
It’s fair to say there was some controversy about the selection of Mae Muller as Britain’s entry to this year’s…
Varadkar red-faced after his boyfriend’s coronation messages leak
Oh dear. It was all meant to be going so well for British-Irish relations. Earlier this month both the Irish…
Erdogan faces runoff vote in the Turkish elections
Turkey is a strange kind of democracy. But nonetheless it is a democracy where an apparently invincible strongman can –…
Where’s our energy Plan B, Chris Bowen?
Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, has released a video calling Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear energy ‘a…
Conservatives, where art thou?
Last year, conservative commentator Matt Walsh released his iconic documentary, What is a woman? thrusting the question deep into the…
Bad birdie! Twitter-faithful reject Musk’s CEO
Twitter users are a resilient bunch of customers. They spent the best part of a decade living under the increasingly…
Big government makes people crazy
The Federal Budget’s $10.5 million spend to support the mental health of Indigenous Australians leading up to the Voice referendum is…
Forget electric cars: America should invest in electric roads
As President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy begin to square off on a compromise debt ceiling bill, the…
Erdogan is unlikely to go quietly
The Turkish election is just hours away, and an opposition victory seems more likely than ever under president Erdogan’s rule.…
How Russia lost Kazakhstan
Prior to Russia’s invasion in February 2022, few westerners knew much about Ukraine, and even less about Kazakhstan. We all…
Britain is stuck in a fertility trap
Pope Francis wants you to have sex. Or at least he wants Italians to have more sex. The country, he says,…
The Black Sea is Nato’s new front line against Russia
Earlier this month, an unarmed Polish aircraft monitoring potential human smuggling and illegal fishing on the Black Sea almost ditched…
How a small Welsh village became embroiled in a slave trade controversy
You’ve probably never heard of Abergynolwyn, which sits in the Dysynni valley in Merioneth in Wales. The village, established in…
The dark side of Bud Light
Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney recently said the backlash against Bud Light had left them having ‘trouble sleeping’. They are not…
Mother’s love on a wing and a prayer
The bond between mother and child is something very special. It goes far beyond the crass commercialism of Mother’s Day,…
Mother’s Day tribute
Leila Abdallah – mother to Liana, Alex, Michael, and Selina, a wife to Danny, and the daughter of Norma Habis…
The UN is wrong about Britain’s treatment of trans people
Is Britain a hostile environment for trans people? The United Nations’ independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has delivered…
British universities are beyond redemption
There’s no doubt that the government has the best of intentions when it comes to clearing up the Augean stables…
Putin’s acolytes can smell blood
Yevgeny Prigozhin, standing in the darkness next to a row of bloodied dead bodies, was shouting obscenities. With his yellowish,…
Trudeau’s ‘coronation gift’ is just lip service to the monarchy
Cynically dressed up as a coronation-related gift to the Canadian nation, just days after the coronation, the country’s leader Justin Trudeau has…
Why trophy hunting could be key to saving Africa’s wildlife
The lion or elephant in the photo should be stone-cold dead. The hunter posing with it should be ugly, fat…
How Elon Musk turned Twitter into the post-TV Fox News
Elon Musk has decided it’s too much work for him to be the chief executive of Twitter, a fraying social…
