How Shabana Mahmood can fix the police
By the standards Shabana Mahmood has set for herself, the speech she made to police leaders at their annual conference…
Britain’s asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s asylum shake-up has sent the Irish government into something approaching panic mode. The profound new measures,…
Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?
Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks. Those were not my words, they came from a…
Philip Pullman is right: Oxford is a ‘frustrating and irritating’ place
The vast acclaim that Sir Philip Pullman’s latest novel, The Rose Field, has received has cemented his status as one…
A lethal standoff is playing out deep beneath Gaza
In 1929, René Magritte painted a picture that has since become iconic in both art and philosophy. The Treachery of…
Should this academic have been banned from campus for using the ‘n-word’?
Is it ever acceptable to say the ‘n-word’? As you will have immediately inferred by that sentence, it’s rare to…
International Men’s Day momentum builds
What does the growing support and recognition of International Men’s Day mean? Last week in Adelaide I hosted my third…
Trump keeps talking, Putin keeps shooting
The failure to conclude Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is Donald Trump’s first really big boo-boo. The failure fuse was lit…
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
It is the 9/11 of the blue ticks, the Hindenburg of the grifters, the dotcom bubble of the slop-peddlers. The…
Sunday shows round-up: Mel Stride says ‘mistakes will have been made’ during Covid
Heidi Alexander: ‘Tackling child poverty is in the DNA of the Labour Party’ The expectation is that Chancellor Rachel Reeves’…
Isis is stirring once more
Indications that the Islamic State (Isis) has begun to employ artificial intelligence in its efforts to recruit new fighters should…
France’s integration nightmare
France has spent decades telling itself the same comforting story: that the children and grandchildren of Muslim immigrants would become…
Red tape has broken Britain
The overwhelming smell of weed wafting down the street; heaps of decomposing litter floating in local canals and rivers; the…
Why Venezuela matters to Iran
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and three warships have been sent to the Caribbean, where they are joining a…
Who is looking out for Britain’s salmon and frogs?
Whatever happened to British ecology? I was thinking that when I read two reports in the Times this week, both pretty depressing.…
We must cut Send to help our kids
It is ‘insane’, Reform’s Doge chief Richard Tice said this week, that children are wearing ear-defenders in classrooms, supposedly as…
Memo to Jess Wilson: I’ve found your shadow Treasurer for you
On Friday, I spent an afternoon at the H R Nicholls Society annual conference, as a guest of the Society.…
Live not by spin
In 1974, after being arrested for the crime of telling the truth, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay Live Not…
Vale Allan Moffat, the gentleman racer
I was seven years old when Allan Moffat and Colin Bond crossed the line 1-2 in their Ford XC Falcon…
Javier Milei proves economists wrong with radical free markets | Adam Creighton S3 Ep 12
Argentina is defying the experts by clawing its way out of socialism under the leadership of Libertarian President Javier Milei.…
The CPS is desperate for a backdoor blasphemy law
I had hoped I would never have to write about Hamit Coskun again. After the Quran-burner won his appeal in October, it…
Nigeria: 303 children and 12 teachers kidnapped
It is now believed 303 children and 12 teachers have been taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria after a more…
Will Mahmood’s asylum reforms force Ireland’s hand?
Labour’s plans to overhaul Britain’s overstretched asylum system have forced the Irish government to do the same. As the Northern…
Why was Turkey so keen to host COP?
It is not often we have cause to praise Turkey, but last week they saved the taxpayer $1.5 billion. Well, sort…
