Not such a rotten borough
Her attack on the council’s record under Conservative leadership betrays her failure to grasp the fundamentals of local government finance
Tricks of the trade
Tony Tetro fooled many connoisseurs with his canvases – aged by mixing coffee and cigarette butts or baking them in a pizza oven
More tales of Tinseltown
If the early days lacked glamour, they certainly provided the best anecdotes, according to a new oral history
Therapeutic justice: the unreligion of our age
I am not a lawyer, but if I take at face value the description of a number of cases in…
The Twitter Files: shadowbanning is real
Headlines are awash with the accusation that former CEO Jack Dorsey – and other members of the former Twitter team…
Why Japan and Britain are teaming up to build a fighter jet
The UK will partner with Italy and Japan to develop a new generation of fighter aircraft with the aim of…
Ilya Yashin is in jail, but his words will sting Vladimir Putin
Fewer than one in 100 defendants in the Russian court system get acquitted. Even in the best of circumstances then,…
The Viktor Bout hostage swap is a victory for the Kremlin
After a quiet swap in the United Arab Emirates, the American basketball star Brittney Griner is out of a Russian…
What Rowan Williams gets wrong about democracy
Rowan Williams used his Reith lecture on religious liberty to make a plea to religious believers: don’t be afraid of…
Why not all the French love Mbappé like Macron
Emmanuel Macron is confident France will beat England in Saturday’s World Cup quarter-final. In an interview with a radio station,…
All I want for Christmas is a TikTok ban
What do Santa Claus and the Chinese Communist Party have in common? They both see you when you’re sleeping, and…
We need to talk about Kevin
Even doomed political campaigns throw victory parties — or pretend to. No-hope candidates have to keep up the pretense that…
Under-age voting is coming
The current push from the Greens to change the voting age relates to self-interest, rather than the interest of the…
Long Covid: hysteria that won’t die
If you think that the Covid madness is over, think again. I’m not talking about China, where people are being…
Parks Australia: when bureaucracy turns racist
Imagine telling a Brit of migrant origin that they’re forbidden from visiting the White Cliffs of Dover because they are…
Freedom, the Liberal Party, and Fleetwood Mac
Last week, tragedy struck two institutions I love. Both of them are devoted to an idea I’m passionate about: freedom.…
Iran steps up the war against its people
Iran has announced the first execution of the current crop of protestors. Mohsen Shekari, who was just 23, was hanged earlier…
Five lowlights from Harry and Meghan’s Netflix flop
Is that it? For months now much ink has been spilled about the ‘explosive’ revelations promised in Harry and Meghan’s…
Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is a tedious, narcissistic wallow
The opening scenes of the eagerly anticipated – or keenly dreaded – Netflix series Harry & Meghan set out the…
The UK isn’t learning the right lessons from lockdown
This month, the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care published a Technical Report on the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK.…
Why can’t we call Moroccan football thugs hooligans?
One of my most delightful sporting experiences was watching the 2018 World Cup match between England and Tunisia in a…
Beyond the reach of government
Everyone these days is pretty sure they’re right, no matter which side of any given debate they are on. There…
The left declares war on sperm
There’s a perplexing debate buzzing online about where babies come from, and liberals are highlighting the fundamentally warped way they…
The coming crash of the climate cult
The Climate Cult worships two green idols – electric vehicles and wind-solar energy. This is part of a futile UN…
Conservatism after the Victorian election
Here is a simple truth: the Liberal Party in Victoria could not defeat the most corrupt, incompetent, and debt-ridden Labor…
