The Covid Inquiry has ducked the most important questions
The biggest lesson to come out of the first report of the official Covid Inquiry is what a mistake it…
Was Nathan Gill recruited by the Kremlin?
Was 52-year old Anglesey man Nathan Gill, a member of the European parliament, taking money from the Kremlin, or just from…
‘Monster parents’ are terrorising Japan
If you want to make a Japanese high school teacher break out in a cold sweat and suffer heart palpitations,…
We should admire Shabana Mahmood’s political conversion
It’s difficult to recall any minister in recent years, let alone a Home Secretary, who has been lauded with such…
It’s miserable being an Epstein
It was shortly after my fifteenth birthday that I discovered the music of The Beatles. A school friend and I…
There’s no writer quite like Mariusz Szczygiel
I’ve been a fan of Mariusz Szczygiel, the Polish author, investigative journalist and TV presenter, since reading his book Gottland:…
When ceasefires become a false end
History has taught one stubborn lesson: the page that ends the fighting is not the same thing as the page…
Drill, baby, drill
Net zero is deceased, it has gone to meet its maker, it is no more, it has shaken off its…
Give Sussan Ley a chance
She’s been leader for only six months, she’s disciplined and determined. And political knifings rarely end well
A Chesterton for our time
This is Greg Sheridan’s third volume of Christian apologetics. The first, Christians, was the case for Christian faith. The second,…
Pit full of snakes
What a cheering thing it is that David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for Flesh which is a masterpiece…
Aussie life
The Victorian government’s ‘treaty’ with the one per cent of its citizens who purport to be Aboriginal is unjust and…
Language
It is probably time to unpack the word ‘communism’. Zohran Mamdani has been elected Mayor of New York, and he…
Why has Peter Thiel dumped his AI stocks?
How, I wonder, did a shortlist of candidates to succeed Sir Mark Tucker as chairman of HSBC come into the…
‘The food is not the point here’: Carbone reviewed
People say that Carbone is Jay Gatsby’s restaurant – Gatsby being the metaphor for moneyed doomed youth – but it…
