Will Northern Ireland ever learn to solve its own problems?
If the relationship between the UK and the United States is allegedly special, the relationship between Northern Irish politicians and…
The rise of rowdy theatre audiences isn’t a surprise
The incident at Manchester’s Palace Theatre last Friday night at the close of a performance of the musical version of The…
Are Labour’s attack ads that successful?
Over at Labour HQ, there’s a mood of triumphalism about the party’s string of attack adverts. Newspapers are full of…
Can the spiritual element of the coronation survive?
Almost as soon as Charles III acceded to the throne last September, we began to hear whispers and speculation about…
Joe Biden’s hostility to Britain only harms the United States
This week Joe Biden is swanning around Ireland in what must be, according to his Irish-American fantasies, the climax of…
China is forcing its chatbots to be socialist
So now it’s official, Chinese chatbots will have to be ‘socialist’ and woe betide any tech company that allows its…
The religion of gender
I don’t know about you, but the days following the Let Women Speak riot in Auckland have changed my life.…
Flat broke: Dan Andrews has run out of other ‘other’ people’s money
Everybody knows that Labor governments are rubbish with money. They sit around for years, spearing holes in the bottom of…
Australia’s ‘green energy’ chimera
The government has asked the Joint Committee on Trade and Investment Growth to inquire into ‘Australia’s transition to a green…
Staying the Liberal course: with wall-to-wall red, blue politics is on the ropes
It’s not difficult to determine that the Liberal Party appears in trouble. With wall-to-wall red states minus Tasmania, a popular…
Biden needs Trump
As Joe Biden tours Northern Ireland this week to mark the 25-year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the big…
Interest rates can’t go back to being as low as they were
Good news – at least for those who hold faith in economic forecasts. The IMF has just eradicated half the…
Macron’s muddled foreign policy
Even the French reports of President Macron’s state visit to China last week were unflattering. The highly choreographed ceremonies with…
Violent extremists won’t spoil Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland
What can violent extremists do to wreck Joe Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland? The answer is precious little. The…
Did palace officials joke that Prince Harry had Stockholm syndrome?
An ‘archetype’ is a ‘universally understood term or pattern of behaviour, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or…
The CBI has outlived any useful purpose
The director-general has been forced to stand down amid allegations of misconduct. There are allegations against others inside the organisation of harassment…
Women are being ignored again in the surrogacy debate
Just over five years ago, I wrote an article here about sex and gender and the issues raised by policies…
Joe Biden’s shameful excuses for the Afghan withdrawal fiasco
It is an iron law that if governments put out important documents just ahead of a long holiday weekend there…
Is Giorgia Meloni stoking Britain’s migrant crisis?
In the last week over 1,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel, which is twice the number of people that…
It has become illegal to support Russia in the Czech Republic
Supporting Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is now socially and morally beyond the pale in most of the western world.…
Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench
The Liberal Party’s Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesman and Attorney-General Julian Leeser has defied Dutton’s leadership decision to support the ‘No’…
The People vs. Big Australia: Albo’s housing crisis
Do you recall Labor’s announcement during the 2022 election that it was going to increase immigration to record high levels?…
Restoring trust in public health
‘Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.’ –…
Coronation carriage canned for Speaker Hoyle
It’s less than a month to go until the Coronation and already the media are going mad for anything royal-related.…
