The Xi-Putin Moscow Summit: did we learn anything?
Xi’s recent three-day visit with Putin in Moscow brought with it several takeaways. China and Russia are deepening their relationship…
Alan Jones: the Liberal legacy is catastrophic defeat
One thing is for certain coming out of the New South Wales election last Saturday. Just as the mainstream media,…
Is this the reason Harry and Meghan stepped down as working Royals?
Stepping down as working royals would ‘provide our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the…
It’s time for Congress to take back its war powers
On March 29, more than twenty years after the United States commenced Operation Shock and Awe in Baghdad, the Senate…
The kidnapping of a journalist and Russia’s descent into thugocracy
It’s a crude but inescapable fact of history that many states had their origins in better-organised bandit gangs. It’s a…
The sex lives of writers
A fellow writer recently asked me if I would prefer to be famous as a great writer or famous as…
How trans ideology took over our schools
Concern with what schools are teaching about sex, gender and relationships has been growing. Parents worry their children are being…
Amsterdam’s lazy campaign against British tourists
Amsterdam has launched a campaign telling rowdy Brits to stay away. Men between the age of 18 and 35 are…
Rishi Sunak now sees a future for fossil fuels in Britain
The location of Rishi Sunak and Grant Shapps’s net zero relaunch today shows there has been a change of emphasis…
Joining CPTPP shows Britain is finally seizing the benefits of Brexit
Even the most ardent Brexiteers would likely admit that the UK has been slow to embrace one of the biggest…
The Tories should think again on targeting Netflix
If you want to understand the curious attitude of our government towards media freedom, look at two provisions in the…
Putin’s crackdown on Russia’s school children
In Russia, nowhere – and no one – is safe from the insidious reach of Putin’s war in Ukraine. In April 2022, during a school…
Submarines for landlubbers
Submarines, despite recent ill-informed comments from ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating, are currently a very expensive, ‘must have’, item in the…
The ugly side of activism
J. Mitchell Sances’ recent article about ‘gay erasure’ on the political left says much about what advocacy organisations tend to become…
Cost-cutting in the kitchen with Budget Bytes
Have you heard about the latest food trend sweeping the nation? It’s called “whimpering over your grocery bill.” In the…
Mandatory testing for $15 smoke alarms, but not cyber security plans?
In the wake of Australia’s latest customer data exfiltration attack affecting possibly 14 million Latitude stakeholders, we read that the rate…
Hypocrisy on steroids
Former UK Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption argued from near the start of the Covid pandemic that what democratic governments…
Humza Yousaf’s cabinet will do little to unite the SNP
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has risked widening the split within the SNP by effectively ousting Kate Forbes from the…
Why Germans are going wild for King Charles
King Charles III is going down a storm in Berlin. Hundreds of wellwishers have turned out to greet the King…
In defence of landlords
Whisper it millennials, but YIMBYism (Yes In My Back Yard) might be gathering momentum. Recent surveys have found more people agree than…
The Good Friday Agreement hasn’t solved Northern Ireland’s troubles
Northern Ireland is a few weeks out from a Davos-style gathering of the great and the good to mark 25…
Westminster School and the sad decline of boys’ schools
Westminster School, one of Britain’s oldest public schools, has announced it will go fully ‘co-ed’ from 2030. Having first admitted girls to…
The plan to house migrants on barges could soon come unstuck
Frank Sinatra once sang about the seductive properties of bright and shiny ephemera. ‘Her heart will sing, singa-linga, wearing baubles,…
Is the cult of victimhood turning violent?
This week I read the most extraordinary and chilling statement. It was issued by a fringe group called the Trans Resistance Network.…
Is Macron heading for his Margaret Thatcher moment?
There was a sense of foreboding in France at the start of this week. After the anarchy of last Thursday…
