American Diary: love of the game
Cramming recently into a freezing New York Jets game, I was surprised to learn that, despite the National Football League…
Sunak fined by police for a second time
In the past few minutes, Lancashire Police has confirmed that Rishi Sunak has received a fixed penalty notice for sitting…
Joe Biden should follow Jacinda Ardern out the door
I have a question for New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister Jacinda Ardern: can you take President Biden with you? Ardern…
Brazil: the installation of a brutal socialist dictatorship
Under Article 1 of the Brazilian Constitution, ‘all power belongs to the people, who exercise such power by means of…
Assisted dying is a slippery slope
What are your thoughts on assisted dying and assisted suicide? That’s the question asked by a Health and Social Care…
Davos man is back in charge of the global economy
Davos was back with a bang this week for the first full-scale winter conference since the pandemic. And yet, the…
Inflation is coming down – but when will we start to feel better off?
Despite this week’s inflation update, broad consensus remains that the headline rate is going to fall – significantly – this…
The Sunak seatbelt row is a pathetic ‘scandal’
Remember when Britain knew how to do a good political scandal? Secretaries of State sharing showgirls with Soviet attachés. A…
Has Starmer’s Davos gambit backfired?
Ah, the World Economic Forum: that annual jamboree for plutocratic banksters, avaricious industrialists and superannuated spongers to come together in…
Sorry, folks, Donald Trump isn’t going away
Almost all of us can recite the reasons why Donald Trump’s political career should be over. We hear them again…
How Marine Le Pen became the voice of France’s red wall
It sums ups the sorry state of the Socialist party in France that they can’t even elect a new leader.…
Joe Biden’s failure of leadership
Leadership, real leadership, requires setting an example. As far as security is concerned, the leader of the federal government, Joe…
Putin is running out of options – and shopping for more
As Vladimir Putin geared up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Siege of Leningrad, all the…
The Pink Tide returns to Latin America
As the dust settled on Jair Bolsonaro’s seismic victory in Brazil back in 2018, one might have spared a thought…
The Great Reset – have we been spared?
‘The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, re-imagine and reset our world’, thus spoke Professor…
Carole Baskin’s husband: dead or alive?!
Fans of the breakout Netflix documentary Tiger King have always agreed that Carole Baskin’s first husband is definitely dead. More accurately,…
Jim Molan: remembering the early years
Each of us is allotted at birth three score years and ten to make our mark on the world. Some…
The minister for net zero and dystopian hellscapes
‘Australians, you shall decarbonise. Electricity bills shall go up, energy security shall go down, and damage to the environment shall…
Jacinda Ardern over-promised and under-delivered
And just like that, she’s gone. In one of the biggest shocks to hit New Zealand politics since that late…
The unhinged environmentalism of Al Gore
Lucky old Americans. They only had to put up with one fruitcake as president, in Donald Trump. It could have…
Are the Tories serious about levelling up?
How serious are the Conservatives about levelling up? Their MPs have reportedly been told not to use the phrase in their…
Jacinda Ardern’s tattered legacy
Wellington, New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has announced she will be stepping down as the prime minister of New Zealand, saying…
The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
Why Jacinda Ardern is stepping down
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will stand down on February 7. In an announcement in Wellington, choking back tears,…
Twilight of the Democrats’ gerontocracy
As President Biden plans to launch his reelection campaign, he is whistling past a graveyard of recently discarded Democratic Party…
