The National Archives fires back at Matt Hancock
Oh dear. It seems that Matt Hancock has been called out on his Covid record, again. In his newly-published ‘Pandemic…
What I learnt from an Aboriginal Elder
Recently, I sat down to interview an Aboriginal Elder from South Australia for the ExCandidates podcast, of which I am…
Can the EU recover from the Qatar corruption scandal?
Four people associated with the European parliament have been arrested in what seems to be the beginning of a major…
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Is Elon Musk losing his appeal? Cockburn concedes that being the richest man in the world must be pretty sweet.…
Joe Biden, border dodger
President Joe Biden doesn’t answer many questions without his handler-approved list of reporters. So when he does occasionally go rogue,…
Why I’m finished with football
I have spent many, many years dutifully squeezing into pubs full of rapt, drinking men giving excessively loud voice to…
Harry and Meghan have stepped up their war on the Windsors
The first part of the Harry and Meghan show on Netflix was something of a let down. Over three tedious…
Oxford’s highwayman campaign against motorists
Oxford councillors are feeling rattled by opposition to their proposal to divide the city into six districts and to limit…
ChatGPT: a world-class BS machine
Two weeks ago, like most people, I hadn’t so much as heard of ChatGPT. By last week, I was hearing of practically nothing but. After OpenAI…
GDP grows – but the UK isn’t out of the woods on recession
Have the prospects of a recession been overstated? That would be the most optimistic reading of this morning’s update from…
NSW Liberals: party democracy must be honoured
If you thought the factional war that tore apart the NSW Liberal Party on the eve of the recent federal…
Albo’s gas cap folly
If the threat of gas rationing and blackouts on the first day of winter this year taught us anything it…
Pandora’s box of genes: Orwell’s DNA databases
Earlier this year in July, one of Australia’s enduring mysteries – the Somerton Man – was solved. It was the story of…
Twitter’s smoking gun
The latest batch of Twitter Files have dropped, and boy are they a doozy. Yet again, the conspiracy theorists have…
Rewiring the nation
Mr Malinauskas, Premier of the Australian colony of South Australia, let slip in recent times that he believed there should…
Canada’s assisted dying catastrophe is a warning to Britain
In 1936, King George V lay on his deathbed. As his final hours drew near, the royal physician administered two injections of…
2022 and the Revenge of the Real
Do you get that alarming feeling, right now, that everything is suddenly, rapidly, falling apart? At the same time, does…
Football won’t save France or Britain from decline
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron rekindled their bromance on Saturday, swapping tweets prior to England’s World Cup quarter-final clash with…
Britain’s young are giving up hope
The Conservative party faces a new challenge in the battle to win back younger voters – how to sell the…
The tricky business of Judges’ names
From now on, barristers like me will no longer have to worry about calling a District Judge ‘Sir’ or avoiding clumsy…
Why Germany shouldn’t cancel Bismarck
What’s in a name? On the face of it, the Bismarck-Zimmer in Berlin’s Foreign Ministry building looks like just another…
Entering a new Dark Age
‘Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.’ – Heinrich Heine History has always been problematic for tyrants.…
The Nanny State Awards
This year’s highly un-coveted Nanny State Award was a tight contest, with a horde of strong contenders from around the…
There are no degrees of innocence
The golden thread rule running through criminal law in our common law system is that a person accused of a…
The ‘Twitter Files’ are damning for US agencies
There are two pieces of deeply disturbing news to emerge from the ‘Twitter Files’ released by Elon Musk. The first…
