No me digas! Spain is leading Europe’s feminine swing to the right
After almost three winters of discontent, Europe is swinging to the right and – reminiscent of the UK’s response to…
Plibersek, stop handing public money to billionaires
Mining giant and Fortescue Metal executive chairman Andrew Forrest said at a Sydney conference this week: ‘We are fat and…
TikTok may be the real test of the China Select Committee
The primetime launch event for the House China Select Committee shows the bipartisan consensus that has formed in Washington on…
Biden should deliver on Jimmy Carter’s promise to explain UFOs
Remember the UFO that one of our fighter jets shot down with a missile? Reports now indicate it was a…
What happened to lockdown’s 40,000 missed cancers?
There is rarely a good time or place to explain to a patient that they have an untreatable cancer. Three…
The great villain of Covid is China. Not Matt Hancock
The Telegraph has a hell of a scoop with its lockdown files, aka Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps. It’s a major public…
The decline and fall of Matt Hancock
When Covid first hit the headlines in early 2020, I remember asking myself a question: who’s the health secretary again?…
Hancock’s lockdown files show there was no Covid ‘plandemic’
For those of us who were cynical about the government’s pandemic response as it was unfolding in real time –…
Could Meghan and Harry’s eviction overshadow the coronation?
With the coronation a mere two months away, the ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation about the presence of the Duke…
Elly Schlein shouldn’t be a problem for Georgia Meloni
There is much excitement among western Europe’s chattering classes after Elly Schlein was elected the new leader of Italy’s left-wing…
Ukraine’s drone war on Russia could backfire
Vladimir Putin has sold his Ukrainian war to the Russian people by trying to find the sweet spot between existential…
The importance of exposing Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages
For a while now, I’ve been buried deep in a vault in the Daily Telegraph going through the Matt Hancock files. Like…
The horrifying cost of Hancock’s Covid testing targets
The Telegraph’s splash of leaked WhatsApp messages about Matt Hancock and care home testing is a devastating reminder of the…
Five things we’ve learned from Hancock’s lockdown files
It’s not just the spectre of Brexit that is haunting Westminster. Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories…
There’s still a hint of life in the Tory party
Westminster is a place of consensus, orthodoxy and prevailing wisdom. At any given moment, there is the Narrative, the story…
How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave
By now, the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan is etched into history as a failure — one that punctured the…
Play hardball and stop the carnage
The Western alliance against the Russian Federation’s Ukraine invasion is characterised by soft leather shoes, white shirts, diplomatic suits, and…
The Windsor Framework isn’t the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is
Is the Windsor Framework a get-out-of-jail card for Scottish nationalists? The excitement expressed in SNP circles at Rishi Sunak’s Protocol…
Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide
Europe is in the midst of an energy crisis. The abject failure of renewables to meet basic power requirements combined…
The vilification of Moira Deeming
Free speech and debate are important cornerstones of democracy. History demonstrates that they are the first to go when bad,…
Is Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal all it’s cracked up to be?
Rishi Sunak’s ‘deal’ on the Northern Ireland Protocol is finally out. My first impression is that it is no ‘deal’…
Divide et impera: the end of pluralism
Pluralism – or the ‘doctrine of multiplicity’ – tends to go hand-in-hand with liberal democracy. Based on the concept of…
Labour’s ‘menopause action plan’ is an insult to women
Only once have I been asked if I would like to be photographed with my head sticking out of a…
How the Tories should address Britain’s future
Michael Gove gave a speech at the thinktank Onward for the launch of its Future of Conservatism project today. Here…
The Tories should be planting some bombs for Labour
The recent self-defenestration of Nicola Sturgeon led to a rash of columns listing her dazzling lack of actual achievements, many…
