Vaccinating the internet
It’s that time of year again! Our globalist wannabe overlords have emerged fresh from their meeting in Davos, Switzerland, to…
Carbon taxes are useless without a technological breakthrough
Raising the cost of using a particular fuel will shift consumption to another fuel, but only if all other things…
Putin can’t keep Russians in the dark forever about the Ukraine death toll
Nearly 188,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine eleven months…
Inside the Republican plan to ax Covid vax mandates
House Republicans have launched an all-out war on the remaining Covid vaccine mandates being enforced by the Biden administration. So…
Three years on, is Brexit worth celebrating?
Today, if you feel so inclined to celebrate it, is Brexit Day: the date on which, three years ago, Britain…
Are Tory MPs resigned to defeat?
A telling moment in today’s urgent question on the IMF’s economic outlook came when Angela Eagle pointed out the dearth…
Why is BLM blaming Tyre Nichols’ death on ‘white supremacy’?
The video of Tyre Nichols’ arrest makes for unbearable viewing. The 29-year-old father is dragged out of a car before…
The anti-strike bill shows the Tories can still unite
The House of Commons voted to pass the government’s flagship trade union legislation on 30 January. By 315 to 246…
Are Brits losing sympathy for Ukraine?
Britons were keen to punish Russia for invading Ukraine. A month into the war, more than half thought we hadn’t gone far enough.…
Is Isis to blame for the Pakistan mosque bombing?
The Islamic State may have been driven out of its capitals in Iraq’s Mosul and Syria’s Raqqa but that doesn’t…
What does the IMF want from the UK economy?
Just what is a UK government supposed to do to keep the IMF happy? This morning it has issued a…
Is the CCP’s desperation behind China’s abrupt reopening?
China usually shuts down for the Lunar New Year, but Communist party leaders have marked the arrival of the Year…
Israel is trapped in a cycle of national self-sabotage
Jerusalem, 13 May 1998. Khairi Alkam, a 51-year-old Palestinian labourer, left home early in the morning to pray at al-Aqsa…
The queen of chess makes her next move
When a young male friend offered to teach me chess last summer, I thought it sounded an exotic thing to…
The tech companies have no clothes
“I don’t think you want a management structure that’s just managers managing managers, managing managers, managing managers, managing the people…
Feminism was never about equality
Man hating feminism? The question is whether there is any other kind. I used to think so. I started calling myself…
Black market vaping targets Australian children
The past week has seen some discussion – finally – of practical, workable solutions to controlling the black market in…
The Greens: reaping the electoral dividends of indoctrination
Lowering the voting age to 16 looks like a great idea, but only to the Greens. The party proposed the idea last…
Gender dysphoria and aggression for dinner
Most will have heard of ‘Performance Enhancing Drugs’ and how any trace of such found in an athlete will cause…
A Third Intifada looms in Israel
Peace has never seemed further away for Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Several dreadful incidents recently have made that…
Rishi Sunak is no John Major
As the skies darken over Rishi Sunak’s embattled government, with ministers being fired or placed under investigation, opinion polls dire…
Boris battles the Kremlin over Putin threats
Ding, ding, ding! In the red corner, it’s the menacing goons of Moscow’s Red Square. And in the blue corner,…
Sam Smith and the embarrassing terribleness of LGBTQIA+ culture
Pop music – and specifically pop music stardom – has an incredible power to transform people into things they are…
How King Charles can solve his Prince Harry coronation conundrum
Most men in their seventies, if they had to attend an arduous public event, would hope that their younger son’s…
Eddie Redmayne’s transgender confusion
Eddie Redmayne is clearly still troubled by his portrayal of the transsexual Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl. Eight years…
