Could 30,000 Britons really die of flu this winter?
Could flu really kill 30,000 people in Britain this year as our immune systems, rendered naïve after two years of…
Rogues Heroes: What Prince Harry has in common with the SAS’s founder
I’ve enjoyed the recent BBC blockbuster Rogue Heroes, a drama that is mercifully free from the moralising that Auntie often…
Putin’s hawks are turning on each other
Feathers are flying and divisions are widening among Russia’s hawks as the degree to which the invasion of Ukraine was…
Why Don should make way for Ron
When I arrived in Washington, DC in 2006 to learn about US politics, someone told me that in America, there…
‘Cookers’ are a product of the modern Left
Why do conspiracy theories emerge? Why are they so rampant today? Ask the Left and they’ll tell you that it’s…
China is on the march, but where is it going?
Re-elected Chairman Xi has (essentially) unlimited power. Addressing his fabricated version of the past and future is one of many…
A predictably dire diversity hire
Sam Brinton, a ‘non-binary’ nuclear official in Biden’s Department of Energy, has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing…
Divisive Victoria: promotes Islam, shuns Christianity
As the wave of protests continue across Iran three months after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian…
How did free speech become a right-wing value?
In early May, I explored the left’s reaction to billionaire Elon Musk potentially buying Twitter and his vow to make…
The EU is letting itself be blackmailed by Hungary
For Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, there is only one lesson to be learned from the compromise reached with the…
The Bank of England’s interest hike shows the worst is to come
After a faltering start in its programme of rate rises, the Bank of England is catching up. Today’s half-point rise…
Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is worse than the Royals could ever imagine
At the end of the sixth episode of the interminable, grotesquely self-indulgent wallow in self-pity and score-settling that constitutes Netflix’s…
Could Britain pull out of Europe’s human rights treaty?
Just as Brexit began with a few harmless-looking chips at what looked like an impregnable concrete wall, something similar may…
Hooligans aren’t alone in exploiting Morocco’s World Cup run
‘Let’s all get behind Les Bleus for victory!’ tweeted Emmanuel Macron shortly before France and Morocco met last night in…
Latvia’s Russian media crackdown will delight Putin
When Russia was preparing to annex Crimea in the late winter of 2014, the newly-appointed head of the Russian agency…
Randi Weingarten isn’t going anywhere
It was eerily warm in New York the day before the midterm elections, and the president of the American Federation…
Cookin’ with gas…?
Imagine an economy run by Anthony Albanese and Adam Bandt, with expert advice from Chris Bowen. Guess what? You’re in…
Iran copies Trudeau and moves to freeze bank accounts
Dissenters opposing Iran’s hardline hijab mandate face having their bank accounts frozen, prison, or worse, if they fail to comply…
The sovereignty of technocrats and rule of lawyers
It began when the lawns atop Parliament House were fenced off. The whole point of the design of Parliament House was…
Anthony Fauci’s conveniently foggy memory
Dr. Anthony Fauci sat for a seven-hour deposition last week as part of a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general…
The Brittney Griner swap was nothing out of the ordinary
Viewed from a coldly logical perspective, releasing Viktor Bout for Brittney Griner is a highly lopsided trade in favor of…
The right to die
Suicide was once illegal, and failed attempts frequently led to prosecution. In Medieval England, suicides were denied a Christian burial.…
Have the Tories passed the point of no return?
If an election were held tomorrow, not only would Labour win, they would bury the Tories with a landslide majority…
Inflation slows to 10.7% – and may have passed its peak
Has inflation peaked? The Consumer Prices Index fell to 10.7 per cent last month, down from 11.1 per cent in October.…
Why Messi matters
I hope that the Argentinian national team (also known as Lionel Messi) will win its third (or first?) World Cup…
