The Voice: referendum, revolution, or racism?
After sneering at those that voted ‘yes’ in the Brexit Referendum because ‘people could not have known what they were…
The ESG Gestapo: France’s armed Climate Change police
French authorities have tabled adding ‘Green Police’ to the ranks of the Gendarmerie. The Brussels Times relayed how French Interior Minister, Gérald…
Questions for the cult of climate hypocrisy
In my recent article When truth is flummoxed by sophistry, hopefully I rationally and successfully established that not only is Climate…
Albo & Chalmers: a plan for ‘Big Australia’
The Albanese Labor government has been in power barely three months and already one can discern the vast gulf between…
Why are lesbians no longer welcome at Pride?
The lesbian group Get The L Out UK, founded to protest gender ideology and the pressure on same-sex attracted women…
Los Angeles is in freefall
On August 9, a crazy homeless woman riled by community activists stormed a Los Angeles city council meeting, shouting obscenities…
Liz Truss has a Boris Johnson problem
Can a honeymoon be over before the Wedding March has even begun? Liz Truss might be about to find out.…
Would Russia change if Putin died tomorrow?
Suppose Vladimir Putin drops dead tomorrow – he has to drop dead one day, after all. Will a chastened Russian…
Abundance doesn’t end
Speaking to his ministers at the Élysée Palace last Thursday, the très sérieux Emmanuel Macron called for unity and sacrifice…
What Philip Larkin can teach us about depression
A couple of years ago I taught The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin to some A-level students. In the last class they summed…
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
I’m an idiot. Because only an idiot decides to seriously pursue stand-up comedy at thirty, which is when I began.…
Biden’s laptop and Zuckerberg’s tangle of whispers
Is it election interference if social media oligarchs in charge of the de facto public forum admit to manipulating algorithms,…
Novak: discriminating against a champion
Vaccine giant sponsors US Open while unvaccinated champion is banned from America
Where the jackboot never fades
George Orwell once wrote: ‘All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely…
Is Joe Biden… winning?
Well, well, well – Joe Biden seems to be making something of a comeback. His approval rating, which dropped to…
Can Moldova resist Russia’s embrace?
At the Cathedral of the Nativity, in the middle of Moldova’s capital Chisinau, many of those bowed in prayer before…
The Dnieper rapids and why Putin does not belong in Ukraine
Za in Ukrainian – and other Slavic languages – means ‘Beyond’, and porohi means ‘the Rapids’; so Zaporizhia stands for…
The four-day working week is a sham
The challenger bank sector has been such a graveyard in recent years that I don’t hold out much hope that…
What is Pope Francis up to?
If you think your diary looks busy over the next few days, spare a thought for Pope Francis. The 85-year-old,…
Is the right about to backslide on gay rights?
In a speech to August’s CPAC gathering in Dallas, Hungarian president Viktor Orbán said a good many admirable things about the…
Transition teething problem or permanent disaster?
Politicians, regulators, and subsidy-seekers portray the present difficulties in the energy market as being part of the transition from fossil…
Setting the flacks loose on the hacks
It’s time for the flacks to be a lot tougher on the hacks. There’s absolutely no reason you should want…
Strewth-telling
As Neil Brown points out this week, the Victorian government has now embarked on the insanity of ‘our very own…
His lightning art
The combinations and permutations of different forms of artistic activity are always weird. Stacks of people will want to see…
