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.…
Australia’s Labor Dark Ages will end in a Liberal victory
These are dark days for the Liberal Party. Labor governments now dominate the Australian continent while deeply divided Oppositions are…
Science betrayal
There is no surer proof that people are losing faith in the scientific establishment than the recent Rasmussen poll of Americans…
Elon Musk is right about BBC funding
The BBC has today been using its various news platforms to protest against being described as ‘government funded’ by Twitter.…
Why Britain needs more marriage
Hungary is something of a bête noire in the international community. Viktor Orban and his government have had much-deserved condemnation…
Why ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ is still the best of the BBC
Radio Four recently broadcast a ‘Best of’ edition of From Our Own Correspondent, marking 100 years since the birth of…
Has identity politics created a state of madness?
‘Does having children change your perspective on history, politics, philosophy, and the future of humanity? If so, is part of…
We live in a one-way shame culture
Anyone who has ever published a book and been dismayed by an anonymous review online will have cheered inwardly at…
Labour is right: the Tories are soft on law and order
The spouse of one of Britain’s major party leaders would be forgiven for feeling both queasy and furious about Labour’s…
Ukraine has exposed the limits of drone warfare
As Ukraine prepares for an expected offensive in the spring or summer, key weapons from western countries are bolstering the country’s armed…
It’s no surprise some Irish-Americans remain clueless about the Troubles
For Democrats and their friends in the Irish-American community, there were really only two parties who achieved the Good Friday Agreement:…
Identity politics and the challenge to conservatism
In the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull’s visit to New Zealand, Prime Minister Hipkins was embarrassed at his regular post-Cabinet press…
Reporting from the Marxist front line
This Easter, Australian Marxists are conducting their big shindig, Marxism Conference 2023, at Melbourne University. I’m attending. It’s important to understand what…
Pesutto seized his opportunity to fail as a leader
It’s been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of…
Australians are ready, willing, and able to work – let them!
Australian families are feeling the pinch of the cost-of-living crisis gripping the nation as inflation, record energy bills, and housing…
The bodies keep the score in Lviv
Lviv, Ukraine At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score. Within its…
Northern Ireland’s flawed peace has still saved countless lives
A fortnight before the signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998, 25 years ago tomorrow, two republican terrorists…
Putin’s feminist crackdown won’t crush the spirit of Russia’s women
In the wake of draconian laws against ‘LGBT Propaganda’ introduced in Russia at the end of last year – namely,…
Putin only has himself to blame for the end of Finlandisation
Joseph Stalin knew better than Vladimir Putin. After world war two, as the Cold War began, the Soviet dictator took…
We don’t need Westminster: An interview with Wales’s ‘radical’ Archbishop
Andrew John is a ‘radical’, not a politician – or so he claims. The Archbishop of Wales stated his mission…
Why does the census say there are more trans people in Newham than Brighton?
Did you realise that one in every 67 Muslims is transgender? That adults with no educational qualifications are almost twice…
Our moral panic over AI
I was born three years after the first Terminator film was released and didn’t see it until I was around seven.…
No one knows what Albanese’s Voice will look like, or what powers it might have
It seems, if the polls are to be believed, that the majority of Australians in a majority of states will…
China and Hong Kong: a tale of caution
Recent instances of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship indicate its global and persistent efforts to block any pipelines of…
Test cricket is being sabotaged
Test cricket should be in its prime. England is the most aggressive team in history, India and Australia are uncommonly…
