The National Theatre deserves to have its budget cut
The arts cuts have arrived. The biggest loser is English National Opera whose annual award of £12.6 million will be…
Covid blurred the separation of Church and State
Churches allowed fear of the omnipotent God to be replaced with the fear of a fragile virus, making saviours out of health officials
Serbia’s membership talks should embarrass the EU
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looked on with uneasy pride as leaders from…
Britain needs to take back control of its borders
Britain has lost control of its borders. Over the last four years, the number of asylum-seekers and illegal migrants who…
Is Russia preparing to surrender Kherson?
Will they stay or will they go? The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has become the current focus of the…
Arts Council England and the war on opera
Instructed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to move money away from London and reassign it to…
Why are excess deaths higher now than during Covid?
More people are dying every week than during Covid’s peak years. Last month there were 1,564 more deaths than average…
How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe
In May 2000 a French newspaper published an article which declared that ‘The Albanian mafia is corrupting Europe’. Le Parisien reported on…
No amnesty for pandemic fanaticism
A more honest headline for The Atlantic’s recent demand for amnesty over the pandemic response would have been: ‘Sorry, not Sorry.’ The sarcasm best…
It’s the parallel economy, stupid!
There’s a lot of rumbling about American polarization these days. Sometimes it takes the form of people advocating for a…
How Democrats’ open border policies alienated Hispanics
Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many…
The Pelosi/McCarthy feud at the heart of the midterms
Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t like Nancy Pelosi. In this, he’s hardly alone — the list of those…
The Right will slay this Woke dystopia
Conservatives the world over are taking back power and restoring sanity, but where is Peter Dutton?
Leftugees: Democrats escape blue states
Remember the chorus of Hollywood bien-pensants who publicly avowed that they would leave the country if Trump won the election in 2016? To…
Covid amnesty, anyone?
Forgiveness is now officially on the Covid menu. The left-leaning Atlantic magazine in the US has called for a ‘pandemic…
Rishi is the face of post-racial UK
It is only in the ‘racist’ West that genuine multi-culturalism thrives
