How Kyrsten Sinema could hamstring Bernie Sanders’s fundraising
Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s decision to formally quit the Democratic Party could have serious consequences for America’s most famous socialist. While…
Liberal review heads in the Right direction
After considerable media teasing, the-anticipated report into the Liberal Party’s electoral failure last May has finally been released. Conducted by…
A staunch defense of ‘nepo babies’
Over the last few days, as far as I’m aware, I have been the sole defender of the successful children…
Putin’s hollow dream of a mightier army
Who needs Santa when you have Vladimir Putin? Just in time for Christmas, the Russian president has promised his military…
Labour is wrong: it’s not ‘hate speech’ to question trans rights
MSPs were up until the early hours last night at Holyrood debating amendments to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland Bill).…
How can the West help Russians to defeat Putinism?
Watching Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is a Christmas tradition for many. But this year, people are being urged to stay away: Ukraine’s…
Should it be a crime to pray outside an abortion clinic?
When MPs backed the enforcement of ‘buffer zones’ around abortion clinics, there were warnings that the measure might backfire. Two…
Watch: Zelensky receives standing ovation in Congress
Standing ovations in Congress these days aren’t what they used to be: the annual State of the Union is little…
Britain’s worrying industrial decline
Economic growth is the third quarter was known to be depressed, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has this…
Zelensky’s Congress address was a triumph
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night was a political triumph. It was…
Chris Bowen’s rendezvous with bad ideas
Back in July 2022, Chris Bowen the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, launched the latest CSIRO electricity costs report which…
How does the EU solve a problem like Qatar?
Can the EU afford to snub Qatar? The corruption scandal engulfing the European Parliament centres around allegations that the Gulf…
Bitter politics
I have two mottoes. This first is ‘never look back’ and the second, and more important one in these troubled…
Is Eric Zemmour’s court defeat something to celebrate?
Éric Zemmour is an old-style reactionary France-first politician, a little in the mould of the interwar Charles Maurras. Though unceremoniously…
Harry and Meghan have put Jacinda Ardern in an awkward position
A trailer was released this week for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s new Netflix documentary series, Live to Lead,…
Hopeless and downbeat, Britain is the new France
‘Tis the season to be jolly, unless you live in Britain. An Ipsos poll last week suggested there is widespread…
Now even Saint Jacinda snubs Meghan
Are the wokest couple in all the West losing their star power? The first-half of the Sussexes’ new ‘explosive’ documentary…
Speaking truth to antisemitism
It’s impossible to sugarcoat what Ye, The Artist Formerly Known as Kanye West, said that got him in hot water…
Meghan Markle and the uncomfortable truth about Britain
I’m not defending Harry and Meghan. But I think they deserve some credit, for they have put the British character…
Kerryn Phelps’ vaccine injuries: the silence is deafening
‘…but-but-but we’re not one of those crazy, far-right, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theory, cooker, anti-vaxxers!!! We really did suffer from serious vaccine side effects!’ The…
Betray back better
Early on in March 2020, I was leery of the hysteria surrounding Covid and decided my course of action was…
Colourful writing must die to protect the feelings of the rich and vacuous
The pearl-clutching hypocrites were up in arms this week about a colourful writer and media commentator being exactly that, a…
Why is India covering up clashes with China in the Himalayas?
For more than 20 years the West ignored China’s militarisation of the South China Sea. Until, that is, it was…
Museums of vandalism, doomsayers, and climate catastrophe
It is probably fair to say that the last few months in the life of the average gallery attendant has…
Why should my student paper report on an anti-trans documentary?
Journalists and editors make decisions every day about what stories to report and what to skip. That’s not just because…
