The New York Times does it again
Let me tell you a story, dear reader. It is about a land – a quasi-dictatorial kingdom no less – where locals…
The Online Safety Bill is still a censor’s charter
One of Rishi Sunak’s pledges was to remove the ‘legal, but harmful’ censorship clause that Boris Johnson was poised to…
Is Sunak tough enough on China?
When it comes to policy, the area where the least is known about Rishi Sunak’s views is foreign affairs. As…
China’s protests and the dark lesson of Hong Kong
It is easy to imagine that a dam might be bursting in China. There have been spontaneous street protests across…
Logjams and leaks plaguing parliament
It was Enoch Powell who once called the whips’ office ‘the sewers of parliament’. But it seems that – much…
Is Putin really to blame for this Belarusian minister’s sudden death?
Saturday’s news of the sudden death of Belarusian foreign minister Vladimir Makei, as well as the rather terse nature of…
How revolutions begin, and how they can end
Across China, the world’s most populous nation and its second largest economy, scenes unprecedented since the Tiananmen Square massacre of…
Good on the Nationals
An obsession with race politics is a dangerous direction for any nation to take. Enshrining racial discrimination and supremacy into…
What conservatives lack
A famous passage in the preface to Lionel Trilling’s book The Liberal Imagination is widely quoted and just as widely…
In the studio with Ye on Tim Pool’s podcast
Knoxville, Maryland Ye is not in Calabasas anymore. The superstar rapper, designer and now 2024 presidential candidate flew to western…
Albo’s big night out
Not even Menzies looked this good in a penguin suit, Anthony Albanese thought to himself as he stood before the…
We need more male authors
Just as there are certain social and developmental proclivities that distinguish men and women generally, there are some subtle differences…
Power for power’s sake
Unlike the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote that the East German government – unhappy with the election result –…
Local government needs to wake up from Woke
The increasingly pervasive Woke activist agenda has escaped its confines in university and academia, and hit the mainstream. We have…
Showdown looms over China’s new ‘super-embassy’
All eyes tonight will be on Rishi Sunak when he addresses the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet. The Prime Minister is…
Hakuna Matata? Sacked for being white
A sign-language interpreter performing in a Broadway production of The Lion King has allegedly been fired for being white. Keith Wann, 53,…
Why conservatives should consider antitrust against Microsoft
Amid the renewed energy around antitrust enforcement in recent years, one name has been notably missing: Microsoft. The antitrust villain…
Yes, Australia has a problem with live birth data
The fact-checkers at the ABC jumped to the government’s rescue when I asked a few pointed questions about the reported decline in birth rates…
Is Xi Jinping in trouble?
The Chinese people seem to have run out of patience with their country’s draconian Covid policies. After almost three years…
Why are wives still taking their husbands’ last names?
“Why don’t more men take their wives’ last names?” asked the Washington Post in a recent piece about a Maine…
Britain isn’t ready for onshore wind
Staging rebellions against their own government has become a way of life for many Tory MPs – but why choose…
The Wellcome Collection’s war on itself
If you, like me, have an unhealthy taste for depressing news, then you’ll have already heard about the Wellcome Collection’s…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Matt Hancock showed how Conservatives can win
It’s somehow appropriate that Matt Hancock finished third in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Third is…
Lying-in-State leaves its mark on parliament
The Lying-in-State of Her Majesty the Queen was widely hailed in September as a triumph. The organisation was slick, the…
