How Rishi Sunak’s spring challenge could decide the election
Over the past month, there has been increasing optimism within the Tory party that the political situation may not be…
Take the Rishi Sunak maths challenge
Rishi Sunak is back in the headlines today, saying it’s time for greater maths literacy. But when it comes to…
How Liz Truss is wooing Washington
Many Brits who’ve outstayed their welcome in the Old Country head across the Pond for pastures new and the chance…
The trouble with censoring Jeeves and Wooster
It would take longer than I’ve got to comb through copies of Thank you, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves, to…
Why central banks will struggle to conquer inflation
Interest rates could be higher for longer than people expect
The Liberals need to thrash-out their energy policy with a debate
Defeat in the Aston by-election in Melbourne this month was a bitter blow for the Liberals. Victorian party leader, John…
Lick the world
US President Joe Biden has come up with some shockingly garbled speech moments in his short time as leader of…
My transgression confession
Moira Deeming, I have a confession to make… I crossed the line. You might not like what I did, but…
Australia, not Britain, leads the Commonwealth
Britain has a long and storied tradition of palming unwanted things off to Australia. Aside the obvious example, the Territory of…
How Russia became obsessed with fake news
On 1 July, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, known as the ‘Butcher of Mariupol’, delivered a statement about recent attacks on apartment…
Belief in God doesn’t come from a fear of death
When I was a teenager someone asked me if I was scared of dying. No, I said, but I’m a…
Should Ukrainians stop speaking Russian?
A young woman called Lyudmila walks into a cafe in Odessa, the southern Ukrainian city. Her phone is switched on…
The French left is becoming anti-woke
Nearly one in two left-wing voters in France believes the country has too many immigrants. When the same polling company…
Remainers should be honest about the costs of Brexit
Those opposed to leaving the European Union repeatedly accuse Brexit of being based on ignorance fed by lies. The ‘lie’…
We are all a black-box pool to the government
In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most…
‘No compromise!’ Marxist solidarity in 2023
This is a follow-up article to my Spectator Australia report last week on Marxism Conference 2023, the Australian Marxists’ three-day Easter shindig at…
The April Fools’ Day joke that wasn’t a joke
In what some experts are calling ‘the lowest point in the history of the United Nations’, the Russian Federation assumed the…
Men’s spaces were colonised by feminists first
There has been a good deal of talk lately about women’s spaces being invaded by biologically male persons identifying as…
Shame on those who abandoned Peng Shuai
No one really expects much in the way of principles or morality from those charged with running international sport. The…
Another grim reminder of Japan’s violent politics
Has Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida just survived an assassination attempt? Kishida was evacuated from the site of a stump speech in the fishing…
How boredom begat James Bond
It is sobering to think that if Ann Rothermere had been a less enthusiastic painter, James Bond might never have…
Bud Light backs down (almost): are brands learning their lesson?
(Formerly?) popular beer brand Bud Light has suffered a major thrashing in the public forum since engaging trans social media…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration delusion
Few observers of politics can by now be in much doubt about the defective nature of Keir Starmer’s antennae when…
Trans surgery and the problem with Channel 4’s Naked Education
When Channel 4’s new programme Naked Education – in which adults strip naked in front of children – was launched, it promised viewers it would…
Another anti-Woke film races ahead in the box office
Like kicking water up a hill or punching smoke, writing about the culture wars is often tedious and tiring. But…
