Get your ‘science’ out of my face
As if we haven’t had enough of politicians in our faces in the Peoples Republic of Victoria in the last…
Can the Bank of England inspire confidence?
It has dawned on the government that last week’s mini-Budget might have been a bit too one-sided: £70 billion worth…
Liz Truss is a liberal. So how will she approach immigration?
Should Tories already be feeling buyer’s remorse over their new leader? It has been only 20 days since Boris Johnson,…
The anger behind Shinzo Abe’s state funeral
Tokyo While not quite on the scale of Her Majesty’s service, Tuesday’s state funeral of Japan’s longest serving PM Shinzo…
Life among the Russian refuseniks
Yerevan, Armenia It was getting dark outside Yerevan Airport when I arrived, but there were still a dozen flights from Russia…
Will Meloni be able to govern Italy?
Mario Draghi’s national unity government lost badly in yesterday’s Italian election – worse even than the polls predicted. Fratelli d’Italia,…
The Bank of England has no good options
How will and how should the Bank of England, and the Treasury, react to this morning’s continued fall in the…
In praise of the speeding crackdown
We all needed a laugh, what with the pound tanking and inflation running away, my old pal Kwasi delivering a…
Will the Bank of England now move to steady the pound?
After a weekend where the markets digested the Kwasi Kwarteng plan for growth, the pound hit $1.03 in early trading…
Cuba: the communist climate criminal kids ignore
When it comes to socialist and communist dictatorships, environmental groups fall silent. There is an unwillingness to criticise these oil-heavy…
McSteamy to Scary?
When Brett Sutton shot to fame in the wake of the Covid outbreak I admit I fell for him. Hook,…
The Republican ‘Commitment to America’ feels like a Hail Mary
Last week, with fewer than 50 days to go before the midterm elections, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy put it…
Will the GOP blow the midterms?
At the start of the year, largely thanks to the actions of the president, the Republican Party was sitting pretty.…
Argentina’s socialist demons are coming for the West
How did we arrive at the position where, throughout the Western world, political decisions to undermine the cheapest and most…
The Muzak of activism
Last week I heard the song Beds are Burning played at least three times in the space of a few…
Iranian women fight, Western feminists hide
One of the most powerful speeches I ever heard was delivered in a casual meeting of the NSW Rostrum public…
Starmer sets himself apart from Truss
One of the reasons members of Liz Truss’s team remain upbeat despite the onslaught of criticism towards government’s tax-cutting budget…
Why are suspected murderers being let out of jail?
What should judges do with potentially dangerous prisoners waiting for their trial when the barristers’ strike means their cases cannot…
Could Balochistan secede from Pakistan?
The rain and the cold in Quetta, the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, did not deter them. Neither…
The apocalypse complex
Just in case there’s an apocalypse, the super-rich are buying bunkers. Big bunkers. Bunkers with swimming pools, indoor gardens, cinemas,…
Ardern ‘an extremely poor substitute’ for the Prince
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stood in for Prince William at a UN conference, describing herself as ‘an…
The old vague; finally breathless
‘There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth…
No unity under a political president
For everyone who supports the idea of retaining the monarchy in Australia’s Constitution, there is one very important question that…
In defence of repression
There is a modern superstition that for every terrible experience suffered there is an equal and opposite psychological technique that,…
