Twitter unplugged: Musk wages war on child exploitation
Twitter unplugged from the Woketopian matrix is firing on all cylinders, despite predictions the platform was doomed. Bitter at not having…
Pests overrun the House of Commons
Who’d want to work in parliament eh? The roof is leaking and the toilets don’t work, the floor is damaged…
Why is the US economy doing better than ours?
The US entered recession earlier than the UK and Europe, and suffered its inflation surge earlier too, so it was…
The Trump transaction is now over
Donald Trump has struck again. Just as the GOP was finally shifting attention away from its anemic midterms performance, there…
My travels in DeSantisland
Long before he became a darling of the right and the left’s second favorite villain, Ronald Dion DeSantis was just…
Cyborg assassins: robots granted a licence to kill
Cyborg assassins aka ‘Terminators’ (of a sort) have been legalised in San Francisco. The San Francisco Police Department’s (SFPD) board…
Lady Hussey’s resignation and the pressure to reform Buckingham Palace
It’s a story that sounds as if it could have come from half a century ago, rather than today. Ngozi…
It’s time we stopped subsidising the railways
Rail travel has never been cheap, but should we really each be paying £500 a year even if we never…
Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem
For a long time now, high fashion – with the alibi of being ‘art’ – has tried on rape, self-harm, heroin-chic…
Macron’s trip to Washington is pure theatre
President Macron has landed in Washington with his fleet of jets to spend the next few days in procession across…
Parents need to do more to stop their kids watching porn
Nothing scares politicians more than telling parents how to do their job, which is a shame because a bit more…
Are the Tories in the throes of an existential crisis?
The UK government has had a fractious couple of weeks. First it was the Swiss EU deal rumours, then housing,…
Morrison: sorry – not sorry…
You’ve got to hand it to the Labor Party – when they get their paws on power, they waste no…
The alt-right are contrarian phonies
Why is an alt-right pundit all of a sudden best buds with the artist formerly known as Kanye West? Many…
‘Junior’ Coalition partner?
On Monday, the Nationals under David Littleproud and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price took a political step that…
A belligerent Voice?
To paraphrase the awkward words of Joe Biden, ‘The Nationals ain’t black … they’re not voting for the Voice.’ Biden’s…
‘Racist’ Monkeypox renamed mpox – genius!
The World Health Organisation has announced a brand new, stigma-free, name for Monkeypox after US President Joe Biden denounced the name as racist. The…
Boys’ clubs under siege
Why do so many women have it in for male cyclists? All the jokes about unsightly middle-aged men in Lycra,…
A republic by stealth: why the King belongs on the $5 banknote
Do Australians know who is on their banknotes? How many of us, if asked randomly on the street, would be…
Why Trump’s antisemite controversy just won’t die
Donald Trump has caused something of a hugger-mugger over his last supper with Kanye West, or Ye, and Nick Fuentes.…
The Shinkansen to Hiroshima: a Covid-Haunted world
When Michael Jackson famously started wearing face masks, many took it as evidence that the great man had succumbed to…
It’s nonsense to say we are no longer a ‘Christian country’
According to the census, British Christianity is having a disastrous century. In the 2001 census, a clear majority of people in…
The good, the bad and the ugly of the new Online Safety Bill
The new version of the Online Safety Bill seems, on the face of it, to be an improvement on the…
Has the Indyref ruling complicated Catalonian separatism?
Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on Scottish independence will offer scant encouragement to separatists in Catalonia. The crux of the…
The Tories should defend free speech, not neglect it
The government’s Online Safety Bill is coming to look more and more like some ghastly juridical juggernaut: a vessel grimly unstoppable, even…
