Who’s afraid of organoid intelligence?
For fans of bioethical nightmares, it’s been a real stonker of a month. First, we had the suggestion that we use comatose…
Germany’s folly: Berlin has miscalculated on Russia and China
The notion that closer trade connections with the West will necessarily set less enlightened nations on a course toward prosperity…
Hancock wanted to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant and ‘frighten the pants off everyone’
Day 5 of the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files and the most startling stories yet. Here’s what’s new: Matt Hancock asked when…
Prince Harry and Gabor Maté are a match made in heaven
In the eighteenth century, the well-to-do and prurient enjoyed visiting London’s most notorious hospital, Bedlam, to gaze at its patients.…
Big Tech showdown: DeSantis floats Digital Bill of Rights
Ron DeSantis has tabled a citizen vs. Silicon Valley, Digital Bill of Rights, designed to hand Floridians protections against Big Tech overreach.…
Productivity is never an accident
As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…
Hancock and Gove’s cringeworthy Covid love-in
Last night it seemed as if the Matt Hancock WhatsApp messages released by the Telegraph couldn’t get any worse, after…
Is Macron really saying the France-Afrique is finished?
On 2 March in Gabon, West Africa, President Macron declared that ‘the days of France-Afrique are over’. Since the early nineteenth century the…
The sinister rise of drag shows for children
The hyper-sexualisation of children’s shows in the name of ‘diversity and inclusion’ continues to grip the United Kingdom. The latest…
Our Russian sanctions are only helping Vladimir Putin
‘I don’t see a single beneficiary of this crazy war’, wrote the self-made Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkov on his Instagram…
Printing money: inflation comes for the West
Groceries aren’t rising in price and giant supermarket chains aren’t making record profits. The value of money is collapsing. That’s…
The spy movie that set Putin on the path to the KGB
Leningrad, summer 1968. Volodya is 15-year-old. With his mates, he goes to the cinema to catch The Shield and the…
Seven things we learned from the juiciest lockdown files yet
Day four of the lockdown files and it’s the juiciest so far. Here’s what the Telegraph released last night: 1. Matt Hancock thought…
How we forgot about Pol Pot
When I was a small boy, I had a favourite book: The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton. Given that my…
Finally, we can talk about the Wuhan Lab
In early 2020, a New York Times headline scoffed, Senator Tom Cotton Repeats Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origins. This week, the newspaper of…
The Australian education system is woefully outdated
The aim of the Australian education system is to provide ‘a system that supports participation and helps all Australians reach…
Snowy 2.0h yuk!
Lobb’s Hole doesn’t exactly sound the most appealing of places, and indeed it may well be the graveyard where Australia’s…
Australian notes
When the Australian editorialises (24/02/23) that, ‘No one who has followed [its] reporting over decades could remain untouched by the…
Popish plot: destroy Catholicism
The papal purging of traditionalist ways can only end badly for the Church
