The curious carefulness of Nadhim Zahawi’s ‘carelessness’
The cliché is that it’s scandals about sex that tend to do for Tories, and scandals about money that do…
Putin’s desperate recruits are in a life-and-death scramble for kit
As Vladimir Putin seemingly dithers over the question of whether to send a further 500,000 of his citizens onto the…
Will Prince Harry and Meghan spoil the King’s Coronation?
As the furore caused by the publication of Spare may – or may not – be dying down, there are…
The think tank implicated by Biden’s classified documents
Joe Biden has become the Typhoid Mary of classified documents, spreading them as he goes. They keep turning up in…
It’s time to make Boris Johnson special envoy to Ukraine
The videos showed a typical summit: Vlodomyr Zelensky next to Ukraine’s flag and Boris Johnson next to the Union Flag.…
How the Liberal Party wins women back
If the Liberal Party wants to survive it must expand its base. The membership needs to see a rapid influx…
My mother and Sharia law
My mum was forced to marry my dad when she was only twelve and started childbearing at the age of…
‘No’ to Covid amnesty
We appear to be reaching a tipping point on Covid governance as high-profile advocate after high-profile advocate of masks, mandates…
The Tories are tired of Boris’s ceaseless scandals
The political world splits in two whenever fresh evidence emerges that Boris Johnson does not think that life’s rules and…
Australia Day is marked for death
With the proclamation that local councils across the country may choose to hold citizenship ceremonies on days other than January…
LSE is right to cut ties with Stonewall
The London School of Economics (LSE) shocked their student union this week by informing them that the university is disaffiliating…
Will Christopher Luxon be New Zealand’s prime minister?
Following the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Labour government will select its new leader, and the country’s next prime…
The night train to Kyiv
After several months in the UK, the lady sleeping on the opposite bunk on the night train to Kyiv told…
The tragic decline of political rhetoric
After the first regular BBC TV broadcasts in 1930, it took the House of Commons 60 years to agree to…
Britain is not a basket case
It’s a dinner party in Brussels and I try to turn the conversation to the war in Ukraine. My host…
Australia’s education crisis of ‘dumbed-down twaddle’
As a year 12 student, school has been a common denominator in every aspect of my life for almost as…
Witch hunts are not ‘justice’
I knew it! And if we were all honest with ourselves, we knew it. There is an uncomfortable reason why…
Dutton wasted a gift-wrapped Albo
The Albanese regime made an enormous error last week when someone inside Labor’s PR team decided to carefully edit the…
Putin is using fear to mobilise the masses
There was nothing subtle about it, as cranes lifted truck-based Pantsir-S1 air defence systems onto the roofs of the sprawling…
Ukraine is lucky to have Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. So wrote William Shakespeare in Henry V. He…
Jacinda Ardern was the queen of coercive kindness
Jacinda Ardern has resigned as Prime Minister of New Zealand. After a period of reflection over the summer break, she…
Germany is paralysed by pacifism
Germany’s marked reluctance to supply Leopard 2 tanks to help Ukraine repel the brutal Russian invasion has very little to…
Winston Churchill isn’t to blame for the Bengal famine
Sir Winston Churchill arguably saved civilisation as we know it. Had Britain capitulated to Germany after the fall of France,…
The insipid cult of saint Jacinda Ardern
Watching Jacinda Ardern’s departure speech, I reflected that even though I invented the word cry-bully – ‘a hideous hybrid of…
Whose voices will be heard?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced soon after being elected that he would move a Constitutional amendment to include an Indigenous…
