Is Georgia seeing a ‘colour revolution’?
On the face of it, the protests that rocked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last week looked a lot like…
Dignity – yours to lose
On my morning walk with the dog I passed through a family gathering. The path I was on goes right…
Did the ivermectin ban cost lives?
It appears that we live in a reality where doctors are censored and early treatments such as ivermectin are banned,…
Tory hawks aren’t happy with Sunak’s China stance
The tougher language on China in today’s refreshed Integrated Review hasn’t been enough for a number of Conservative MPs, who…
The horrifying rehabilitation of paedophilia
There’s no faster route to acceptance, even canonisation, in the post-modernist, feelings-trump-facts contemporary world than the path of victimhood. Don…
Who qualifies for the Voice?
The so-called ‘Voice to Parliament’ is a proposal for a race-based advisory body established via a referendum to amend Australia’s…
Australia’s creeping codependency
There’s an old joke in psychology that when a codependent is dying, they see everyone else’s lives flashing before their…
Now it’s Theresa’s turn to write her book
‘Former Prime Ministers’ remarked William Gladstone ‘are like untethered rafts drifting around harbours – a menace to shipping.’ And as…
Beijing is likely to react badly to Sunak’s Integrated Review
It was only last summer that Rishi Sunak declared China ‘the largest threat to Britain’, but in today’s refreshed Integrated…
In defence of cycling on the pavement
It’s a statement that’s guaranteed to raise hackles, but I admit: I cycle on pavements. This has become a controversial thing…
Is the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank the tip of the iceberg?
On the face of it, the takeover of the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank by HSBC is a triumph…
Gary Lineker was always going to win against the BBC
The BBC’s decision to back down and allow Gary Lineker to return to presenting is a welcome conclusion to a…
The triumph of Gary Lineker is a disaster for the BBC
The BBC-based sitcom W1A centred on a running joke about how the spinelessness and ineptitude of senior management led them…
Wagner’s founder Evgeny Prigozhin is in a fight for his life
As Wagner mercenaries are being deliberately expended by the regular military as cannon-fodder in the battle for Bakhmut, their backer,…
Gary Lineker to return to Match of the Day
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Following the farce of last night’s 14-minute episode of Match of the Day,…
Is Australia up to the Aukus challenge?
One hundred miles or so south of Sydney, lies tranquil Jervis Bay. On its shores, largely reclaimed by the bush,…
Let’s talk about sex education
Ah, sex education. I remember it like it was yesterday. It would have been 1987. Our entire year assembled in…
Why I do not celebrate International Women’s Day (and what I propose in its stead)
International Women’s Day has come and gone once again. March 8 is the day we are exhorted to turn our…
Attempting to cancel Zulu exposes the Left’s idiocy
You would be hard pressed to find an Australian soldier who has served since the reactivation of National Service in…
A fresh approach to energy policy
Current energy policy in Australia is based on the arguments that greenhouse-gas emissions should be sharply reduced and that, as…
Giving six-figures to racism
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission recently spent $1.3 million on Voices of Racism, the second wave of the 2017…
Rowan Dean: We don’t need a Voice because we already have one
As readers know, I occasionally like to be the bearer of good news and today I am delighted to tell…
Will the BBC chairman go after Lineker row?
Day five and the Gary Lineker row shows no sign of abating any time soon. The BBC has gone into…
Is Macron dreaming of Aukus becoming Fraukus?
When silhouetted against the symbolism – as French media proudly insist – of King Charles choosing France for his first…
The BBC should admit its mistake and get Lineker back
While sports fans this morning are discussing why the entire England rugby team backed Gary Lineker by choosing not to…
