City of Stonnington promises religious freedom ‘for now’
Victorian activists are insisting that Christians should be banned from renting public spaces for worship services because their views on…
Sorry Harry, good soldiers don’t publicise their kill count
Years ago I was, like Prince Harry, an army officer. Since then I have spent a lot of time with…
The myth of female innocence
When I was 15 years old, I inadvertently angered a group of mean girls who hung out at the roller…
William, Harry and Britain’s long history of royal sibling spats
Fraternal relations rarely run entirely smoothly. But the degree of animosity revealed in reports of the physical clash between Princes…
Pandemic survivors and the silent victims of excess mortality
Many in the media, politics, and the health industry have expressed the view that Australia has fared well since the…
The Lone Star State’s new poker boom
Late on a Sunday night in May of 2022, I found myself playing heads-up poker with a hoodie-wearing small-town Texas high-school…
The Freedom Caucus wins the vote for House speaker
Would-be speaker Kevin McCarthy walked onto the House floor this week with a diminished hand. Before starting the new year,…
Does Jordan Peterson need to be re-educated?
Dr Jordan Peterson, the renowned clinical psychologist, is being ordered off to re-education camp. The regulatory board in his Canadian…
Theresa May gets her pay day
It’s safe to say that most Conservative MPs will want to forget about 2022: three Prime Ministers, four Chancellors and…
RIP Fay Weldon, a force of nature
Novelists can often be disappointingly unremarkable as people but occasionally one, like Fay Weldon, is a force of nature. She…
The last time the House couldn’t elect a leader
A scandal-prone president of tepid popularity and questionable health sits in the White House. The Republicans hold a majority in…
The bipartisan bridge to nowhere
Politicians and members of the press love to drone on about bipartisanship, waxing lyrical about the way things used to…
The war between the Windsors hits a new low
It was inevitable, with a book as highly anticipated as Prince Harry’s memoir Spare, that there would be a leak…
The Katie Porter scandal everyone is ignoring
Katie Porter, darling of the liberal media, is having a rough couple of weeks. The California congresswoman has recently been…
A junkie’s pride
I first quit a substance at the tender age of nineteen, when heroin addiction brought me to my knees within…
Are we headed toward the death of reason?
In one important way, the death of Pope Benedict last week was the death of reason in an increasingly secular…
My time with Cardinal Ratzinger
I first met Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in the mid-nineties. He was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and midway through his…
Covid 2023: a crisis of trust
The past couple of months have seen some quite startling Covid studies published in reputable medical journals that should be…
Who would be the Republican House Speaker now?
The clash that has led to the historic abnormality of a House of Representatives without a speaker is fascinating in…
Are Rishi Sunak’s five targets real?
In his speech today, the Prime Minister gave five targets: ‘Halve inflation, grow the economy, reduce debt, cut [NHS] waiting…
Thanks for all the fish
Environmentalism now requires the prefix ‘real’ to separate it from its toxic cousin, eco-fascism. In terms of real environmentalism, there…
Pope Benedict XVI: the first victim of cancel culture
In January 2008, Pope Benedict XVI was invited by one of Italy’s (if not the world’s) leading universities, La Sapienza…
UFC boss Dana White can’t survive his wife-slapping scandal
Mike Tyson is said once to have claimed the best punch he’d ever thrown was one he landed on actress…
Moscow is playing a risky blame game in Makiivka
At one minute past midnight on 1 January, as Putin uttered the last words of his new year’s address, Ukraine sent six Himars rockets into…
Sunak: judge me on my priorities
Rishi Sunak’s new year speech was more about what he wants to fix rather than how he plans to fix…
