Can Sunak get a grip on his party?
As Tory MPs ponder whether to stand down at the next election in the face of grim polling, the Prime…
Why ‘Uber for the countryside’ is a great idea
The disappearance of rural bus routes is one of the small tragedies of our time. It isn’t, alas, a very glamorous…
America is entering a golden age of democratic capitalism
America could be entering the ‘Great Stagflation’, defined by economist Noriel Roubini as ‘an era of high inflation, low growth,…
What Trump’s dinner with antisemites tells us about 2024
Well, it was quite a Thanksgiving week at Mar-a-Lago. For those just waking from their food comas, the Cliff Notes…
Dan enters the pantheon of ‘great’ leaders
Now the hurley burley’s done, and Dan Andrews is in the pantheon of the state’s great leaders, it’s time to…
Govern me harder, Daddy
The outcome of the Victorian election can perhaps be explained in one sentence: it’s better to believe the fairy tale…
Matt Hancock comes third on I’m A Celeb
All of Westminster was glued to their screens on Sunday tonight to watch the final of I’m A Celebrity. For…
Dying on their knees
Remember these two analogies. First one. At the start of the pandemic hysteria in Florida, the uncritical press had petrified…
Gender quotas are never the solution
‘To be judged on the content of our character and not the colour of our skin’ – that was one of…
The Victorian Liberals are totally…
Didn’t I tell you three months ago? If the Liberal party around Australia is buggered, in Victoria, it is totally…
Victoria: the trauma bond is real
On Saturday night, I was sitting in an auditorium with about 13,000 other fellow ‘cookers’*. We were in attendance listening…
Why China can’t stop zero Covid
The Covid situation in China is not looking good right now. The authorities have trapped themselves into a situation from…
Justin Trudeau’s strange defence of his protest crackdown
On Friday, Justin Trudeau made his much-anticipated appearance before the Canadian Public Order Emergency Commission, where he gave testimony about…
Where did it all go wrong for trans charity Mermaids?
Farewell Susie Green, the CEO of Mermaids, a charity that describes itself as supporting ‘trans, non-binary and gender-variant children, young…
The empty Englishness of Love Actually
One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…
China’s zero-Covid anger is erupting
Protests seem to be breaking out in several major Chinese cities in what has been a week of horrors for…
Would Solzhenitsyn have supported Putin’s war?
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s first novel, appeared 60 years ago this month. Vividly portraying…
The conspiracy against grammar schools
I love a good hard debate, especially at a university. I can’t recall how many such clashes I have had,…
Laughing at libertarians as crypto burns
In many countries, tricking stupid people out of money is a crime. In the United States, it’s the basis of…
Danistan reborn
Well, Victorians better get ready for their dear leader to immortalise himself in bronze. Once a Premier has served (ruled?)…
Pull up! Pull up!
The test pilot was the fourth to try and figure out why the new plane kept crashing. The previous three…
Fan-baiting: the toxic culture of Hollywood progressives
Bros is a gay romcom written by and starring Billy Eichner. The critics, we are told, love it. If you…
Why is Britain still sending foreign aid to China?
Just why is Britain still spending over £50 million a year in development aid to China? Despite it being the…
At war with my pearly whites
I am a dental basket case. When I was a child, my orthodontist used to joke that he could drive…
What the experts got wrong about migration
On New Year’s Day, 2014, during those sunny, innocent times of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband, Labour MP Keith Vaz headed down to…
