Trump’s brave new world
No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation…
Myanmar’s junta has stooped to a new low
Myanmar’s junta has once again shown its true self: calculated, despicable, and violently unrestrained. Last night, warplanes dropped two 500-pound…
Why the McDonald’s AI ad flopped
Be afraid, be very afraid. That’s what we’d been told in the advertising and commercial production industry. AI is coming…
Pauline Hanson’s burqa protest: a stand for free speech and national identity
In a dramatic, defiant move, Senator Pauline Hanson entered the Australian Senate Chamber wearing a full black head covering known…
What humans can learn from mice about monogamy
Time was, we took lessons from brute creation. Medieval bestiaries, books of beasts, weren’t simply descriptions of animals; these compendiums…
Barnaby Joyce did not leave the Coalition
Australia is entering a realignment that the political class still struggles to interpret
Is affordability a hoax perpetrated by the fake news media?
According to a proposal filed by US Customs and Border Protection, travelers coming to the US from more than 40…
Is Trump becoming a lame-duck president?
American presidents face an inescapable dilemma as soon as they are reelected. Because they cannot run again, they find it…
Keir Starmer is not waving but drowning at PMQs
Benjamin Disraeli once observed that the difference between a misfortune and a calamity was that if Mr Gladstone fell in…
Badenoch still has a Herculean task ahead of her
Kemi Badenoch’s good form at Prime Minister’s Questions continues. The Tory leader visibly enjoyed herself again today as she feasted…
The celebrity ECHR letter is pious posturing
Would someone please think of the luvvies? While the rest of the nation is furious about our out-of-control borders and the heinous…
How an Iran-Egypt Pride match threw the World Cup into disarray
Fifa looks set to face its first major scandal of the 2026 World Cup – if you don’t count the…
Men have walked away from fiction
Men have abandoned modern fiction in droves. Blame video games, movies, or social media if you must. However, the real…
Rachel Reeves: There were too many Budget leaks
There were ‘too many leaks’ ahead of the autumn Budget, Rachel Reeves admitted this morning as she faced MPs on…
Mahmood should not waste her chance to reform the police
The Home Secretary is feeling the collars of our 43 chief constables. Shabana Mahmood has let it be known that…
Pantone’s ‘colour of the year’ isn’t racist
For those of you dreaming of a white Christmas, here’s some advice: keep your thoughts to yourselves. Or at least…
Could Shabana Mahmood merge the police into 12 forces?
‘The 43-force structure is no longer fit for purpose. In the interests of the efficiency and effectiveness of policing it…
Reform support in Scotland rises again
Another day, another bad poll for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party. With less than six months until the Scottish parliament…
Keir Starmer’s call for ECHR reform is a risky gamble
Ahead of a Council of Europe summit in Strasbourg today to discuss the future scope of the European Convention on…
The special needs racket is out of control
We are, as vicars like to tell us, all special in our own way. But none so much as children…
Will Australia’s social media ban work?
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon…
CIS Nanny State Awards for 2025
Each year, CIS gathers the most ridiculous examples of intrusion into our lives, to find the winners of our annual…
Bardella and Le Pen are closer to power than ever before
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old…
