China’s ICU problem
The difficulty of ramping up hospital care for Covid might threaten the CCP’s control of its people. Only a few…
The paradox of Alan Watts
There’s an advert for cruise holidays on television at the moment. It’s all dolphins and dining halls and laughing women…
China’s chip industry is struggling
China is entering the new year with its tech ambitions under a Covid cloud. The enormous cost of the now…
Even Americans are growing tired of the Sussexes
With his forthcoming memoir and surrounding publicity tours, the Duke of Sussex has passed the point of no return. He…
How Childline was captured by trans ideology
Childline has acted as a haven for struggling children for over 35 years. In 2006, it became part of the National…
Religious intolerance is alive and well
As the festive season goodwill fades, we can but hope that 2023 will be a better year for Christianity after…
Other people’s money
There’s something delicious about spending other people’s money during a financial crisis – at least, that is the only logical…
Sunday first?
The start of a new year and a new calendar brings to mind the confusion foisted upon us by different…
What has Kevin McCarthy won?
After Kevin McCarthy finally ascended to the heights of the speaker’s chair, it remains to be seen what he actually…
It’s not just social science that could do with more mathematics
The physics department at King’s College London offers a module called ‘Gender Action’. Students studying this module go into schools and…
The UK has finally chalked up a Brexit win
We haven’t lowered tariffs on food. We haven’t done many new trade deals, and certainly not one with the United…
Does Harry’s own ghostwriter dislike him?
You really have to wonder what Harry and Meghan, hunkered down in their Montecito wellness bunker, currently make of the…
How long before Rishi Sunak goes off his own pledges?
When I was a student, my housemates and I would buy our groceries from a shop that offered only days…
Isn’t it time we stripped Harry and Meghan of their titles?
Is it time that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex became plain Mr and Mrs Windsor? They seem so full…
Five times Harry invaded other people’s privacy
‘It never needed to be this way,’ sighs Prince Harry in the trailer for his forthcoming ITV interview: ‘the leaking…
The Elgin marbles and the rot of ‘decolonisation’
The proposed return to Greece, in the guise of loans, of some of the British Museum’s most iconic objects, the…
Prince Harry has done something unforgivable
I’m just going to say it: I’m Team William. In that scrap that Prince Harry says happened at Nottingham Cottage,…
Happy New Year?
The month of January is named for the Roman deity Janus, a god with two faces who looks back to…
