The 12 things that mattered in politics in 2025
We are in the pre-Christmas dog days and politics has, finally, slowed down a bit. Reflecting on 2025, here are…
Were the Romans good for Britain?
Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for…
Trump’s golden ticket
Give me your super rich, your global citizens yearning to be free! The Trump administration has finally unveiled its “Trump…
Europe’s EV market is rolling backwards
Imagine you are a keen Brexiteer and opponent of net zero plans, especially of the idea of being forced to…
How Rachel Reeves shrank the economy
The British economy is shrinking. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that GDP fell by…
The war in Ukraine is reaching its endgame
Painfully and chaotically, the outline of the peace deal that will eventually end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is emerging as…
Stopping the boats will be harder than Jordan Bardella thinks
France’s Jordan Bardella has promised to stop the boats. Now where have we heard that before? The president of Marine…
When will Europe’s leaders wake up to the Russian threat?
Europe’s leaders flocked to London this week, determined to show the world a united front. Like school boys at a…
How we cured DEI at the National Institutes of Health
Since the National Institutes of Health was founded as a one room laboratory in 1887 its mission was simple; perform…
The charming side of elections in the Falklands
It’s election time in the Falklands, where every four years we choose eight members of the Islands’ legislative assembly. They…
Is the superflu really ‘unprecedented’?
The NHS is facing a ‘worst-case scenario’ for flu this winter. That was the verdict of Professor Meghana Pandit, national…
Sandie Peggie and a chilling step backwards for women’s rights
A woman confronts a biological man in a female changing room. She is later found to have harassed him because…
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…
